henchminion (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} henchminion) wrote,@ 2009-03-05 13:38:00 |
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Medieval pop culture
I don't know whether to celebrate or groan over pop culture's current fascination with all things medieval. On the heels of Carl Pyrdum's post about the Crusade movie Arnold Schwarzenegger never made, I give you Dante's Inferno: The Video Game. I quote:
[The manufacturer's] take still features Dante as the protagonist, but the poet-philosopher is now a hulking veteran of the Crusades. He returns home from war to find Beatrice, the subject of his love and admiration, murdered. When her soul is "kidnapped" by Lucifer himself, Dante dives down to the very depths of hell, armed with Death's scythe, to win her back.
It was bound to happen sometime.
I don't know whether to celebrate or groan over pop culture's current fascination with all things medieval. On the heels of Carl Pyrdum's post about the Crusade movie Arnold Schwarzenegger never made, I give you Dante's Inferno: The Video Game. I quote:
[The manufacturer's] take still features Dante as the protagonist, but the poet-philosopher is now a hulking veteran of the Crusades. He returns home from war to find Beatrice, the subject of his love and admiration, murdered. When her soul is "kidnapped" by Lucifer himself, Dante dives down to the very depths of hell, armed with Death's scythe, to win her back.
It was bound to happen sometime.
