[h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-25 Thread Julie
I love to play a kind of game when watching a "historical costume" film or TV show I call: Find all the things in the costumes that give away the year the film was made. Hairstyles and makeup of the leading actors is a dead giveaway. If you want to see a costume designer's original intent: chec

Re: [h-cost] Last of the Mohicans The Leopard

2006-04-25 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
In Maeder's opinion, the Italian-Anglo film, "The Leopard" was the most historically accurately designed and costumed film up the year he wrote the book. Cindy Abel Hi, i completely agree with him, its fantastic costumes. Especially the elderly women in the great ball scene, who dresses very ear

Re: [h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-25 Thread AlbertCat
In a message dated 4/25/2006 12:38:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hairstyles and makeup of the leading actors is a dead giveaway. If you want to see a costume designer's original intent: check out some background extra. * Indeed! I love how, o

RE: [h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-25 Thread Abel, Cynthia
Actually, if it wasn't stupid characters doing stupid things in most movies(and TV shoes), that would eliminate the plots of most of our entertainment from those mediums! And that would lead to the loss of a lot of fun watching them. I kind of wondered at the trailer for Marie Antoinette which

RE: [h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-25 Thread monica spence
Genie Barrett wrote: >Actually, the book is so different from that movie that you could call > them two different stories with people who share the same names. That was my original reaction to Clive Owen's "King Arthur". Though it makes a great movie, it was not at all what I had expected. It get

Re: [h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-25 Thread Lavolta Press
That's good to know! Fran Genie Barrett wrote: At 11:53 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote: I haven't read the book, which hopefully explains things like this. But in the film, I thought they were idiots. Actually, the book is so different from that movie that you could call them two different stor

[h-cost] Last of the Mohicans

2006-04-24 Thread Genie Barrett
At 11:53 PM 4/24/2006, you wrote: I haven't read the book, which hopefully explains things like this. But in the film, I thought they were idiots. Actually, the book is so different from that movie that you could call them two different stories with people who share the same names. Genie (