Former Latin students of the world:
Salvete! I have good news!
No, your Latin teacher didn't actually give herself a lethal
paper cut on your shoddy translation of Virgil's Aeneid. And, no, your local school board didn't
finally decide that Latin was, in fact, "dead enough" to give up on trying to teach it.
But it's
almost as good. Earlier today, Warner Bros. movie studio, a unit of Time Warner, announced plans to remake the old
Latin class stand-by Clash of the Titans. The original
feature film, which follows the codpiece-wearing hero, Perseus, as
he fights monsters and Medusa, to save the beautiful Princess Andromeda. Andromeda, in typical princess style, spends
most of the movie chained up to a rock, waiting to be rescued by the divinely chartered hero.
Hmm...more realistic? Now call me a skeptic, but I'm a little uncertain of how he will make Medusa -- a monster with snakes for hair whose sight turns men to stone -- more realistic. But, then again, so long as the production doesn't interfere with the Oscars, Beacham will have a pretty good shot at getting Joan Rivers to agree to the role she was made to play.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-01-2006 @ 4:11PM
rackingguy said...
Ah! Salvete discipuli! Why did you have to remind me of four years of lingua Latina???
My personal favorites:
Per aspera ad astra: Through the sky to the stars
Aquam cavat lapidem, non vire, sed saepe cadendo: Water hollows rock, not by force, but by constantly dripping.
And the best...
Pecunia omnia vincit: Money conquers all!