Classic Epics
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Epic and Disaster
jowshihuh — 15 years ago(October 30, 2010 06:18 PM)
Here are some I can think of, even though I haven't seen most of them:
Intolerance
Birth of a Nation
Gone with the Wind
Quo Vadis
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Lawrence of Arabia
Dr Zhivago
El Cid
The Last Emperor
Giant
Spartacus
Cleopatra
Ben Hur
The Ten Commandments
What are some others that would fall into this category, and are there any on my list that wouldn't fit (probably meaning I haven't actually seen them)?
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IndianaMcClane — 11 years ago(April 22, 2014 10:44 PM)
You may want to consider
Khartoum
from 1966 directed by Basil Dearden and starring Charlton Heston and Laurence Olivier
55 Days at Peking
from 1963 directed by Nicholas Ray starring Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, and David Niven
From the same era as
The Last Emperor
would be
Gandhi
from 1982 directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley
If you were to include modern epics you could include the likes of
Dances with Wolves
,
Braveheart
,
Gladiator
,
The Last Samurai
, etc. You could even probably consider ones like
The English Patient
and
Titanic
in a
Gone with the Wind
/
Doctor Zhivago
sort of way. Though only time will tell if all or any of them become considered classics like the other ones listed. Granted some of the older ones we have listed in this thread (
El Cid
,
55 Days at Peking
,
The Fall of the Roman Empire
, and
Khartoum
) have become pretty obscure at this point. (which is quite a shame) -
DLSchindler — 11 years ago(May 01, 2014 03:22 PM)
The Vikings (1958)
The Robe
Demetrious & The Gladiators
The Egyptian
The Grapes Of Wrath
The Count Of Monte Cristo
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Bounty
The Prince & The Pauper (1937)
The Sound of Music
The Fiddler on the Roof
Other notable movies I would like to mention (that happen to be both "epic" and "classic" but are not essentially "classic epics":
The Wizard Of Oz
2001: A Space Odyssey
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DLSchindler — 11 years ago(May 14, 2014 11:32 PM)
Why not?
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IndianaMcClane — 11 years ago(May 15, 2014 11:21 AM)
The problem is that the genre is pretty hard to have a universal definiton for, and different people seem to have their own definitions on what constitutes one. But given how IMDB has split up the message boards (which does have sci-fi and fantasy as their own which those two films,
2001
and
Wizard of Oz
respectively, would be more closely classified as) for each genre, they (including the OP) appear to be going with the one AFI one of as "A genre of large-scale films set in a cinematic interpretation of the past." (With their examples here on the link to this board being
Gone With The Wind
,
Ben-Hur
, and
The Last Samurai
. Granted I'm still not sure why they decided to roll them in with disaster films) And those types of films are usally the ones normatively put into the epic genre, though it is when you get beyond that that different people seem to potentially start having other additions. (Though it should be noted that there could be a distinction between "epic" as a genre and as a description) Now maybe a better term for IMDB would of been "historical epic" or "period drama", or something to that effect. Again, I'm not trying to say who's right and who's wrong or anything. But I thought it was notable that I'm pretty sure this is what's being gone for when talking about "Epics" on this board. -
DLSchindler — 11 years ago(May 30, 2014 11:34 AM)
I think I see your point. I have made an amendment to my list since I get why those two films are not entirely appropriate for the intended definition. Thanks for explaining the misconception.
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DLSchindler — 10 years ago(October 27, 2015 10:22 PM)
I give your list a ten.
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