She and her daughters were supposedly outraged by the Romans ... and since rape is one of the sacraments of feminism, I'd imagine they like her.
Within the space of a year, Gibson has become independent film's most interesting director.
Gotta love redheads.
I hope he does!
Oh, wow, cool! Chariot battles!
Boy, I hope he includes the part where she crucified the women and girls of London, lining the crosses along the banks of the Thames to rot. It's called Lady Bank to this day.
What's so special about Boudicca? She's more or less a footnote in history.
Take any figure where there's been emotional investment and you're going to annoy someone.
Hmmm, I think Mel is onto a real money making formula. Irritate a liberal group and roll in the dough as they go ape, LOL.
It's been working great for Limbaugh for years.
To start with, it begins with a special prefix "Bo". It has the very same meaning as the "Mac", "Mc", and "O'" found in names vastly more familiar to modern times.
However, it's use as an honorific was pretty much confined to the language spoken in ancient Brittain. Some Welsh (Cymmru) names use it. It's still pretty common in Brittany where it appears as "Bois" in hundreds of "dit names".
By the way, "Bo" does not mean "boy", an erroneous translation frequently found in Irish and Scottish tracts on the subject. It's much more like LORD/LADY when in the name of a tribal leader.
The second part of the good queen's name follows immediately after the honorific "Bo". That's "ud", or "ad" (as it might be derived in one of the alternative spellings "Boadicea").
This second part of her name is clearly the ancient British (and modern Welsh and Breton) name "Arthur", that is "Ad"!
So, we have KING ARTHUR. Following that we have DIC and that's your root word found in almost all Indo-European languages for duke and dictator.
This is immediately followed by CA or CEA. (I favor the "hard C" pronunciation for the "c" sounds very much like the Romans themselves would do. No doubt that CA turns KING ARTHUR into a feminine form, and she becomes QUEEN ARTHUR. The "C" might also be a reference to the ICENI, her hereditary tribal affiliation before she became High King/Queen.
Turns the situation with Guinivere upside down doesn't it?
So, what is Mel Gibson going to do here? Is he going to make that leap of recognition that brings "King Arthur" out of the dark, and out of the hands of various "gay" playwrights who keep 'splainin' Arthur's tolerance of Lancelot's daliance with Guinivere as symptomatic of "gayness"!
Interestingly enough, once the Romans had pacified Brittain they brought in a legion made up of mercinaries from North of the Black Sea. These old boys had a memnonic "ring" about a king with a council circle and a wayward queen. Presumably that story was added to the repetoire of the times concerning the Queen who led the revolt against Rome.
That'll really piss off the PC crowd.
I like to see Gibson do something along the lines of the War of The Roses or Queen Maud vs. Steven.
Mel Gibson probably likes her for a subject because she is a sympathetic figure. She defends her country against the invaders and she causes massive casualties. Churchill said thousands and thousands slaughtered.
Mel's movies seem to gravitate toward bloody battles.
I'm always game to see historical action on the screen, esp. from the beginning period of the British Isles.
I nominate Angelina Jolie to play Boudicca.