Epic film is a style of film-making with large scale, sweeping scope and spectacle, often transporting the viewer to other settings. As Roger Ebert and others have noted the usage of the term has shifted over time, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply synonymous with big budget film-making. Like epics in the classical literary sense it is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to set it apart...
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Works Written About This Topic:
- Air Apparent ,
- The King of the Golden River ,
- Conan the Rebel ,
- Three Hearts and Three Lions ,
- The Black Gryphon ,
- The Eternal Champion ,
- Dragons of the Highlord Skies ,
- Darkover Landfall ,
- Wrath of a Mad God ,
- Rage of a Demon King
Titles:
- The Crusades ,
- Lawrence of Arabia ,
- Othello ,
- Gunga Din ,
- Anarkali ,
- The Last Days of Pompeii ,
- Three Ages ,
- Flying Tigers ,
- Elizabeth ,
- The Myth
Films of this genre:
- Quo Vadis ,
- Spartacus ,
- 300 ,
- Dances with Wolves ,
- Gladiator ,
- The Robe ,
- Escape by Night ,
- Cimarron ,
- Apocalypse Now Redux ,
- Resistance
