"The Eagle of the Ninth" used to be part of the high school curriculum in Ontario as the introductory novel for 13 and 14 year olds.
Somehow the film-makers decided that this was too difficult and dumbed it down. Not only is the history completely mangled in the process, but the entire point of the story, the development of the understanding between the two main characters, Marcus and Esca, is completely lost.
The filmmakers were unable to tell a simple story and resorted to mini-Braveheart/Spartacus battles and gratuitous gore instead.
Not even worth a download. Take a couple of hours and read the novella on your Kindle instead, or better yet, find a dead tree copy somewhere.
The film did make me realize that the book wasn't that bad a read...
Somehow the film-makers decided that this was too difficult and dumbed it down. Not only is the history completely mangled in the process, but the entire point of the story, the development of the understanding between the two main characters, Marcus and Esca, is completely lost.
The filmmakers were unable to tell a simple story and resorted to mini-Braveheart/Spartacus battles and gratuitous gore instead.
Not even worth a download. Take a couple of hours and read the novella on your Kindle instead, or better yet, find a dead tree copy somewhere.
The film did make me realize that the book wasn't that bad a read...