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Enregistrement W803677117 · doi:10.1353/art.2007.0001

The Last Legion dir. by Doug Lefler (review)

2007· article· en· W803677117 sur OpenAlexaboutno aff
Kevin J. Harty

Notice bibliographique

RevueArthuriana · 2007
Typearticle
Langueen
DomaineArts and Humanities
ThématiqueShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Établissements canadiensnon disponible
Organismes subventionnairesnon disponible
Mots-clésThroneCoronationEmperorCleopatraPrologueHistoryChorusAncient historyClassicsArtArt historyLawArchaeologyLiteraturePolitics

Résumé

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REVIEWS103 documentation make KingArthur's Enchantresses a book to recommend especially for students but also for all ofus amateurs and professionals intrigued by feminine characters whose performance ofmagic tests cultural concepts ofgender. SUE ELLEN HOLBROOK Southern Connecticut State University The Last Legion, DOUG lefler, dir., An MGM/Weinstein Co./Dino De Laurentiis Production. Screenplay by Jez Butterworth. (US release) 2007. Shelved for two years, and then released earlier this Summer to tepid reviews in Canada, The Last Legion quietly snuck into US theaters on 16 August 2007 with little advance publicity—and no pre-release screenings for the critics. What therefore sounds, for all intents and purposes, to be another pseudo-historical film turkey in rhe making, surprisingly, turns out to be not half bad. Make no mistake, The Last Legion is hardly adefining moment in the continuing catalogue ofcinema arthuriana, but we have had much worse. The film opens in 476 A.D. with the coronation ofthe last Roman emperor, the twelve-year old Romulus Augustus Caesar (Thomas Sangster). But, within hours, Romulus is driven from his throne by invading Goths who capture Rome and set their leader Odoacer (Peter Mullan) on the throne in an alliance with the Eastern emperor in Constantinople!. Abandoned by the ever politic Roman senate, Romulus finds that his protectors are few: Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley), a Briton, who has been his teacher;Aurelius (Colin Firth), a general with asmall troop ofstill loyal men; and Mira (Aishwarya Rai), a dagger-and-sword-wieldingwarrior maiden from Indiawho previously served the ambassador of the Byzantine emperor. When Odoacer exiles Ambrosinus and Romulus to the fortress prison on Capri under the guard of the always snarling Wulfilla (Kevin McKidd), Aurelius and company set out to rescue him, finding in the bargain Excalibur, the sword ofJulius Caesar forged for him in Britannia and secreted away on Capri by Tiberius Caesar before his death. With the balance ofthe empire under the control ofthe Goths, Aurelius, having rescued Romulus and Ambrosinus, sets out for Britannia to find the last legion, the ninth, in the hopes ofrallying them to Romulus's cause. The Britannia they find is ruled by a cruel masked tyrant, Vortgyn (Harry Van Gorkum), who is intent upon finding Excalibursince whoever wields the sword rules Britannialegitimately. To his dismay, Aurelius finds that the ninth legionnaires have assimilated with the Celtic population, becoming farmers and tradespeople who are relucrant to fight Vortgyn. Aurelius rallies the few legionnaires still mindful oftheir oath to their emperor and prepares to fightVortgyn's thousand-strong army. At the last minute, the remaining legionnaires arrive to save the day. Ambrosinus, who has defeated Vortgyn, reveals that his real name is Merlin. Romulus tosses Excalibur away—it conveniently lands pommel up lodged in a stone—declaring an end to violence and tyranny in all Britannia. Subsequently, Romulus, who changes his name to Pendragon, is reared by Aurelius and Mira, and The Last Legion ends several years later with the slightly wizened Merlin rehashing the events ofthe film for a young boy who is, of course, named Arthur. 104ARTHURIANA The Last Legion seems in the final analysis like a Saturday matinee serial or an episode of The Wonderful WorldofDisney from the 1950s or the 1960s. It is first and foremost a boys' adventure book on film. Fight scenes are fairly tame (in part because the film was obviously made as cheaply as possible—location shots were done in Tunisia and Slovakia), and villains do little more than snarl and roar. Firth makes a poor dashing general—his screen persona is too tied to that ofeighteenth-century beau or twentieth-century reluctant husband. Eventually, the sword-wielding Mira resorts to a more gender-prescribed role as wife and mother. Kingsley has a certain world-weariness and stoicism (at one point he even quotes Seneca to Aurelius) that seem appropriate to Merlin, and Sangster's Romulus is earnest and bright eyed. If the film has a further debt, it is not so much to any recognizable version of the Arthuriad—the screenplay is loosely based on the 2003 novel ofthe same name by Valerio Massimo Manfredi—as it is to the Star Wars franchise with Romulus as a very...

Récupéré en direct depuis OpenAlex et désinversé. Les résumés ne sont pas conservés dans cette base de données : les index inversés représentent 8,6 Go des 9,3 Go de texte de la base, et le serveur dispose de 13 Go libres.

Comment cette classification a été obtenuedéplier

Prédiction machine sur la base complète

Imitation des enseignants

Ni prévalence calibrée, ni vérité terrain. Validation humaine à venir. Le volet Gemma est une étiquette directe du modèle pour chaque travail de la base, lue sur la notice réduite au titre. Le volet Codex est un classifieur appris des 10 348 étiquettes directes de Codex et calibré sur les taux pondérés de l'échantillon; les champs sans appui suffisant ne portent aucun appel Codex. Le mode candidate est l'union des deux volets; le consensus est leur intersection. Ces sorties portent le statut machine_predicted_unvalidated et ne sont pas des étiquettes humaines.

score de la tête « metaresearch » (Codex)0,001
score de la tête « metaresearch » (Gemma)0,009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cStatut de validation: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Catégories candidatesaucune
Catégories consensuellesaucune
DomaineSignal candidat: aucune · Signal consensuel: aucune
Devis d'étudeSignal candidat: Sans objet · Signal consensuel: Sans objet
GenreSignal candidat: Synthèse · Signal consensuel: Synthèse
Score de désaccord entre enseignants0,195
Score d'incertitude au seuil0,651

Scores du classifieur distillé par catégorie (deux têtes)

CatégorieCodexGemma
Métarecherche0,0010,009
Méta-épidémiologie (sens strict)0,0020,001
Méta-épidémiologie (sens large)0,0020,001
Bibliométrie0,0030,004
Études des sciences et des technologies0,0010,001
Communication savante0,0050,004
Science ouverte0,0020,002
Intégrité de la recherche0,0020,004
Charge utile insuffisante (le modèle a refusé de juger)0,1950,236

Scores machine (provisoires)

Les deux têtes enseignantes du modèle étudiant, lues sur ce travail. Un score ordonne la base pour la relecture; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie, et le statut de validation accompagne chaque rangée tel quel.

Scores de référence d'un modèle non mature (critères de maturité non atteints, 7 itérations). Un score ordonne; il n'affirme jamais une catégorie.

Tête enseignante Opus0,020
Tête enseignante GPT0,238
Écart entre enseignants0,218 · la distance entre les deux têtes enseignantes sur ce seul travail
Statut de validationscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · tel quel depuis la passe de notation : score_only signifie que le nombre peut ordonner les travaux, et qu'aucune étiquette de catégorie n'en découle

Classification

machine, non validée

Prédiction automatique; un appel candidat d’une seule source (Gemma direct ou Codex distillé), pas un consensus.

Les modèles n’ont appliqué aucune catégorie : rien dans la taxonomie ne correspondait à ce travail.
Devis d'étudeSans objet
Domainenon disponible
GenreSynthèse

Le détail, modèle par modèle et score par score, se trouve en fin de page sous « Comment cette classification a été obtenue ».

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