Harish Palaniappan's

Always been thrilled about warrior stories from the past, and future advanced worlds, in movies... I am sometimes dulled to a frozen being when I realize that neither do we have alexander the great with us like our hero, nor do we have one single flying taxi or train to beat the traffic of today like in sci-fi movies.

But then, thinking about it.. we, the present, are living great, because not only we have books to imagine how our past had lived or the future would live... but we also have great story teller directors making great movies these days. Think of 'Lord of the rings', 'Pirates of the carribean', and now 300 ..all executing some part of life that used to exist in the past. Of course, movies do show things little exxagerrated to make it interesting, but isn't that the best part.

We could today afford to imagine how Alexander the Great felt, his emotions, his king of the world feeling, etc., when at the age of 30 he had won almost all of land in what we call todays Asia. The movie Alexander does help, if you couldn't feel it while reading about him in your school History books. I only wish, if we had movies like that in my school days, I would have not felt so hard to answer a question in my exams, on Alexander's achievements.. and would have answered that to the date and year.

We can imagine how the future world would probably feel like, with flying taxis, bikes, trains, buses, and centrally controlled database of citizens in your country and where and what they are up to.

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But, thinking about it, people in the past, never would have known much other than their present life and the recent past, since they didn't have any stuff much like technology today.. people in the past travelled vast distances to communicate messages, not like the enemy team sending an email that they want to fight a war.

And whenever there comes a great movie that showcases some people of the past who did great, I only imagine what if the dead who are represented in the movie.. were watching it. :o) pretty cold .. but not a ghosty feeling. Imagine the real Alexander the great watching the movie Alexander or being told about his own biography... what would he feel like or say.

What if dead spartans saw the new movie 300.. and wonder "who on earth gave you guys that number.."