>>Whatever. I never saw it, but I remember the stink over it. Some here seem to think that it was offensive to Jews.
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>>BTW, I bet he managed to make the baddies (Romans or pharasies?) appear to be British as he seems to loathe us, in all his films (well, except the comedy romance types).
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>Eddie Izzard noticed that in most Hollywood movies, that supposedly happen in another language (but all the characters still speak English), the villains will have a British accent. Darth Vader and his officers in Texas drawl - can't have that, can we? They must sound British or they aren't convincing.
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>I wouldn't be surprised if the Romans in this brochure had undergone the same linguistic treatment.

When I was much, much, much younger, a couple of friends and I went to the show to catch a couple of middle of the night horror movies. The theatre was in a Chinese area. We got there early and caught part of a western that was still playing from the evening show. The movie was in English with Chinese subtitles. However, there was a scene where the Indian chief and a couple of his 'lieutenants' were atop a hill sitting on their horses. The chief pointed out toward the soldiers and said something in supposed Apache, or Arapaho, or Sioux or whatever, and a Chinese subtitle appeared at the bottom. I thought that was very unfair.