1. The 13th Warrior Book Info
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Ruth asks…
Who else loves The 13th Warrior?
The 13th Warrior is my favorite movie of all time. The book (Eaters of the Dead) is also great,
but for some reason I can’t get enough of the movie. I’ve heard that it was significantly cut
down when there were problems with the director and writer, which makes me wonder if there
will ever be a special edition or director’s cut release on DVD.
Either way, I absolutely love this movie. It’s my favorite interpretation of Beowulf (though the
recently released movie Beowulf & Grendel was also excellent).
Who else totally loves this movie?
John McTiernan Fans answers:
LOVE IT. Had my hesitations at first, but my dad actually got me into watching it over dinner
once. Was very pleasantly suprised, and he and I got into fights of “who actually owned” the
DVD until I bought my own copy!
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2. Mary asks…
Characters become proficient at something from reading book or
seeing example?
What are some movies where a character has become proficient at something just by reading a
book or watching someone else do it, etc.? And I don’t mean that the character has studied
and practiced for years; not gradual but more sudden. For example, in the movie Limitless the
guy suddenly realizes he can fight after remembering some kung fu movies he’s watched. And
I don’t mean a sports training montage either, there’s too many to count. But something
along the lines of The 13th Warrior where the guy quickly learns to speak Viking would be fine.
John McTiernan Fans answers:
PHENOMENON (1996)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117333/
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3. Robert asks…
does anyone know of the 13th century german warrior monks?
I had read in a book regarding martial arts around the world that in 13th century germany there
was a monastery of monks who were renowned warriors, so much so that knights would travel
from all over christendom to challenge them, but they were so competent with weapons that
knights would ask for no weapon tournaments.
This to me was fascinating as it resembled so much the shaolin monks of China.
Does anyone have any more in depth understanding of this subject?
I can add that it is not the tutonic knights, these were purely monks and never (to my
knowledge) strayed from there monestary.
John McTiernan Fans answers:
You’re perhaps thinking about the Teutonic Knights here, who were based at Koningsburg
(now Kaliningrad in Russia).
This order of Warrior Knights were formed to provide the nucleus of an army to fight the
Northern Crusades, between roughly 1100 and 1300. Briefly put, it was an affront to religious
leaders in Europe that so much of the countries on the northern fringes of Europe remained
pagan after having had every opportunity to accept Christianity. So the order to crusade went
out, to go into Eastern Poland, the Ukraine, Byellorussia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland,
and offer the pagans a choice: death or Christianity.
As always, there were other motives for crusading: from the Pope’s point of view, getting this
last bunch of pagans into the Roman Catholic fold would stengthen his hand and weaken the
Orthodox Church in its heartland. (Even today, the status of Catholics in Russia is still a point of
argument between the two churches – this dates from then!
Land-grabbing was another – this was the birth of Germany’s national obsession with
“lebensraum” and the “drang nach osten” that saw its lunatic extreme in WW2. Hitler never
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4. invented a national drive for war and conquest in the East – it predated him by a good 700
years.
The Teutonic Order was at the head of this crusading, and as it lived and operated on the very
fringes of Europe, it had ample opportunity to make a peace of its own with Ghengiz Khan’s
Mongols. This allowed for its members to travel in peace into the East in the following centuries
and bring back what they learnt there. As a fighting order they did attract knights from all over
Europe and were one of the two or three Orders who were highly renowned for prowess in
warfare.
As Terry Jones pointed out, the old Knight who travelled to Canterbury with Chaucer’s pilgrims
was, by inference a member of the Teutonic Order, or at least close to them, as the poem
recites a list of battles which can be identitfied as ones belonging to the Teutonic Order.
The Order finaly died in March 1945 when the Russians captured Koningsberg and destroyed
the castle which for several hundred years had been its headquarters.
Betty asks…
What are you’re top 5 movies of all time?
Most people have a large amount of favourite movies. But when it comes to narrowing them
down to a top 5 they find it hard.
I grew up with fantasy films such as harry potter, but there are 8 of them, and im not too sure
that now im 16 none of them would be in my top 5. So after much concideration here is mine:
1) Shawshank Redemption
2)Gladiator
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5. 3)300
4)National Treasure
5) Law abiding citizen
But to be honest im not happy with the list, there are atleast 10 other films which i think deserve
to be in my top 5 (which obviously all cant). I love 13th Warrior, the Book of Eli, Dog soldiers,
national treasure book of secrates, Saving Private Ryan, and a huge amount of comedys.
But what makes the top 5 hard for me are the trilogy’s such as Lord of the Rings, Rush Hour….
the Sagas such as Lethal weapon and Harry Potter. And best of all the Fast and furious
movies.
But it just goes to show even though we all have favourite movies its hard to squeeze them into
a top 5.
WHAT IS YOUR TOP 5???
thank you.
Mark
And how could i forget Indiana Jones and James bond :L
John McTiernan Fans answers:
1.Resident Evil All of them
2. Hangover
3.Die hard
4.Lethal weapon
5.To catch a mockingbird
Daniel asks…
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6. Cricton’s 13th Warrior (Eaters of The Dead)?
Is the book as good/better/worse than the movie.
John McTiernan Fans answers:
The book is much better. But I liked the movie as well. They should have kept the same name.
Might have brought better box office sales.
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