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ClavdiaMinor
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Just another Ph.D teaching students how relevant the Roman Empire still is, often in Latin (history rhymes in awful ways). Pseudonym b/c I am contract faculty. Very glad to be (re)connecting with friends here!
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So true. And that is really cool (broadcast engineer). I imagine that can be a high adrenaline job. And I should have clarified that the props (and hair) can go crazily and noticeably inaccurate, but on a percentage basis, less conflict then consultants and showrunners in re going w/accuracy.
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Just after Thanksgiving in 2000. I felt bad telling the guy when I figured out what was going on—since I knew there was no contraband, I wasn’t fashed. But now, I’d be freaking out b/c everything seems like an excuse for harassment.
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Good Lord. He’d sound even more demented than he does now if they let him get dehydrated!
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I have a funny story involving customs beagles and my luggage after being in Rome. Tl:Dr = if your dissertation advisor’s Scotties spend a week nesting in your suitcase, a young customs beagle might just find the scent intriguing enough to alert your bag for a full search. Much to officers’ chagrine
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And I’ve found that doing so creates a greater interest in students & colleagues in finding sometimes revelatory positives in terms of revealing hidden gems of intertextuality or plausible practices—I’m thinking of the hidden yearning portrayed by Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur—and increasing interest.
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Interestingly enough, the place least likely to be historically problematic is the props themselves. I treat anachronisms and obvious departures as Easter eggs for personal laughs, and true intertextualisms such as the Vergil reference in POTC: AWE (and many other projects) as delightful tresures.
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True. I can say that, having taught the aforementioned course on classical reception in film, and having done work as a Latin translator form Marvel/Disney, I’m well aware that it is the bottom line that drives all and (made sure students understood that). $$ drive everything.
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I can totally see this! 😂
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