The Eagle of the Ninth film summary – plot based on Rosemary Sutcliff’s book The Eagle of the Ninth – described by one of its co-financiers, Film 4.
Newly arrived in Britannia on his first command, young Centurion Marcus Aquila (Tatum) heroically defends his fort against a massive Celtic attack but is so badly wounded that he is discharged from the army. Angry and bitter that his army career is over, Read More »
The Eagle film (formerly to be called The Eagle of the Ninth) has excellent fight and battle scenes, it is suggested on Twitter:
“I was doing ADR work on The Eagle of the Ninth– some of those battle sequences are jaw-droppingly good …” (Nils Hognestad on Twitter)
I have learned since posting this originally that ADR stands for ‘Automated Dialogue Replacement’. Read More »
The Eagle of the Ninth film , from the Rosemary Sutcliff book of that name, directed by ‘The Last King of Scotland’ director Kevin Macdonald, stars Tahar Rahim opposite Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell.
“I’m the baddie. He’s the prince of an ancient Gallic tribe.
I’m talking in ancient Gaelic — it was hard.”Read More »
Rosemary Sutcliff’s children’s books, perhaps including The Eagle of the Ninth, were loved by journalist Naomi Alderman when she was in the Puffin club. In the Guardian newspaper today she writes about interactive fiction. “As a child, all I wanted was to walk into my favourite stories; interactive fiction is making that possible”. Serious novelists, she notes, are now creating games with story and text.
“The first time I saw someone playing a computer game was around 1981, at the Puffin Club expo. The hall was filled with stands for my favourite authors – Joan Aiken, Rosemary Sutcliff, Lucy Boston – but the biggest queue was for the bank of computers where children took 10-minute turns playing a ‘text adventure’ …
… Novels and computer games occupy different ends of the cultural spectrum, but have in common the creation of imaginary worlds that beckon us to enter. “
Rosemary Sutcliff, a most able writer of children’s books and historical fiction (‘co-writer’ of film The Eagle (of the Ninth)), spoke of the ‘surprising loss of privacy’ when she wrote about living with her disability for the ‘Emotions in Focus’ exhibition at The Roundhouse (London) which celebrated the 1981 International Year of Disabled People.
Career-wise, I’m one of the lucky ones. My job, as a writer of books, is one of the few in which physical disability presents hardly any problems. I would claim that it presents no problems at all but my kind of book needs research, and research is more difficult for a disabled person. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 