Jun. 12th, 2009

sergebroom: (HellBoy)
A couple of evenings ago, Turner Classic Movies showed a 1930s short film about Adam and Eve. Right off the bat you know this isn't going to be a traditional telling of the story because Adam is this balding pot-bellied guy wearing, besides his leafy accoutrement, shoes and spats. After they do the apple-eating, A & E are seen walking down a road, past a marker indicating that they have reached 10,000BC, with cavemen to prove it. They decide it's better to move on, and they meet the god Mercury doing mail pickup. They reach Nero's Rome, where there is a talent show featuring what looks like the Soggy-Bottom Boys in peplum. It gets just as weird when A & E reach King Arthur's Court. After they reach Modern Times, Adam suddenly wakes up. Yes, it was all a dream. Phew!
sergebroom: (Feynman)
A few days ago, over at Rixo, Susan de Guardiola posted about the play Mary Stuart, in which the Queen of Scots meets the Queen of England, an encounter that never happened in real life. That got me thinking about what other fictional meetings of historical figures are out there. Here's one I had heard of but never seen until now...



( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O31qRH3O6c )