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Pitt Says Men May Start Wearing Skirts After 'Troy'
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| May 9, 2004
Posted on 05/09/2004 12:12:11 PM PDT by sarcasm
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:12:11 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
To: sarcasm
``Men will be wearing skirts by next summer. That's my prediction and proclamation,'' [snortle]
Pitt also defended the decision to deviate from Homer and not include any gods in the film. Petersen said gods would not have played well with audiences today.
And that just caps my decision not to see this film.
``Who would you get to play the gods?'' Pitt quipped.
Ignorant skirt-wearer... The whole twist on the Greek gods was their humanity, or their base humanity as it were. In the Greek deity was displayed the worst of human nature. Excluding them from the film was stupid, imo.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:17:35 PM PDT
by
maxwell
(Well I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation...)
To: sarcasm
The Iliad shown without dieties is the same as making a movie based on the Bible and leaving God out.
To: Semper Paratus
Well we didn't see God(the Godhead) in The Passion of the Christ...
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:21:26 PM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(I voted for this tagline... before I voted against it.)
To: Semper Paratus
Hmmmm....we had Clash of the Titans, Jason and the Argonauts, or for a more recent example, Hercules and Xena. Sounds like we could accept Greek detities on screen. Besides, I thought Achilles was a demigod.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:26:11 PM PDT
by
Galactic Overlord-In-Chief
(Here's how to solve Christianity vs paganism: have Bibleman vs. Captain Planet in a steel cage match)
To: sarcasm
David Bowie tried to push skirts on men some years ago if I am not mistaken. Togas,dashikis and kilts have never caught on either. Perhaps men in America were just not ready. I must admit the unencumbered freedom can be cool, airy and very comfortable but, I don't think think skirts of any sort will ever catch on with men in this country, except perhaps in your isolated pockets of gaydom.
;-)
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:26:47 PM PDT
by
ColoradoSlim
(what not to wear)
To: sarcasm
No Gods???
No Athena, No Phoibos Apollo? No Thetis of the silvery feet?
That is half the story, how do you justify most of the
action without intervention of the gods? That was what
made the story!
I'm agast, I was looking forward to this having just read
the Illiad in preparation !
Hmmmmmmm.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:26:50 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: sarcasm
Methinks pretty boy Brad is expressing a deep seated desire.
To: sarcasm
To: maxwell
Ignorant skirt-wearer... The whole twist on the Greek gods was their humanity, or their base humanity as it were. In the Greek deity was displayed the worst of human nature. Excluding them from the film was stupid, imo. Hollywood's so anti-god that even Greek gods which are integral to the story can't make the cut!
To: sarcasm
WTF?
You'll never see me in a skirt.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:31:10 PM PDT
by
Dan from Michigan
("There's no points for second place")
To: sarcasm
Sorry, Brad, but you aren't that much of a trend-setter.
A couple of decades ago a designer guy tried to get men to carry purses. They still don't, for the most part.
Brad in a skirt might work for Brad.
Imagine trend-setting John Kerry or Al Gore in skirts. Uh huh.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:31:29 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: sarcasm
Actor Brad Pitt said Sunday that fashion-conscious men may be wearing Greek-style skirts soon after his big-budget film about the Trojan War opens this week. Well, yeah, considering skirts for men were all the rage after Braveheart and Gladiator.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:32:13 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(The ultimate Jewish mother! Fear me!)
To: sarcasm
Greeks wore skirts all the time then.'' To save on sewing. I think the the term loin cloth is more applicable.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:33:45 PM PDT
by
oyez
(Fortune favors the bold.)
To: sarcasm
Movie sounds like the Pitts.
To: sarcasm
Didn't happen with Mel in Braveheart, won't happen with Brad in Troy.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:34:33 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
(Clintonites have such good hind-sight because they had their heads up their hind-ends 8 years.)
To: TomGuy
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:35:11 PM PDT
by
sarcasm
(Tancredo 2004)
To: sarcasm
Brad Pitt.... Does anyone really believe he was only acting crazy in 12 Monkeys?
To: NYCVirago
Hollywood's so anti-god that even Greek gods which are integral to the story can't make the cut! Well, there is this one.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:36:19 PM PDT
by
Alouette
(The ultimate Jewish mother! Fear me!)
To: oyez
"loin cloth is more applicable"
The wife hates me in one, says it makes me look fat.
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posted on
05/09/2004 12:36:28 PM PDT
by
ColoradoSlim
(what not to wear)
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