August 15, 2004

Am I Brian Blessed or Not? Your task is simple: Find the fake Brian Blessed. You'll see 4 lineups of Brian Blesseds. In each lineup one Brian Blessed is fake, and you only have a few seconds to identify and click him. It's short, it's stupid, and it's FLASH

Bonus points to the Monkey who is old enough to identify the theme tune to this Flash Game. And for those without enough Brian Blessed even after this, here's this recently discovered outtake from the movie Spartacus. Now, my mighty Hawkmen!! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVE!!!

posted by Nostrildamus 20 years ago
  • Really hard for me as I had never heard of him. The music is Queen and I think it's from the movie Flash Gordon.
  • It's short, it's stupid, and it's FLASH I'm so there!!!
  • Dude, the music so obviously from Flash Gordon. They even say "Flash...Ah-ahhh!" The piano one I can't ID, though.
  • He's for everyone of us Stand for everyone of us He'll save with a mighty hand Every man every woman Every child - with a mighty flash
  • I'm only 22 and I know the Z-Cars theme when I hear it.
  • Finally finished after trying oh say 7 times. For what it's worth the guys other stuff, particularly this disturbing creation is well.....yeah.
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  • pyrrthon1: dude, you never saw the early Black Adder episodes? You must be really young or really old. For a lesson in Brian Blessed, I suggest that you rent or buy tapes/DVDs of the "I Claudius" miniseries. Blessed plays the Emperor Augustus in the first several episodes. That might sound a bit boring, if you haven't seen it, but there a orgies, bare tits, poisonings by the Empress Livia (great performance by Sean Phillips), betrayals, witchcraft, noble characters who inevitably get bumped off by the wicked ones, and Caligula. Everything your heart could desire, wrapped into one 13-hour series. Done, of course, with great taste by the Brits. (YMMMV, but I watch it at least once a year.)
  • I Clavdivs is great ... John Hurt as Caligula, brilliant. Patrick Stewart with hair, too.
  • path is wise. Heed well the words of path.
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  • Apologies for any possible copyright infringement to dng.
  • Yeah, it was Z-cars. The Flash one was too obvious, obviously, and wasn't the theme. Themes play at the start and end, not during. That's incidental music :P I'm only 34 and *I* also recognise the Z-Cars theme. And yes, I,Claudius has to be one of the best miniseries ever produced, anywhere, in the history of mankind. Definite fave of mine. It was so good I read the books. Then I ate the mushrooms. then I .. ack! Christopher Biggins! Ack!
  • I, Claudius -- based on a novel by the poet Robert Graves. An excellent read, too -- for those who enjoy reading.
  • Based on two novels, I thought. Been a long time since I read them. Thick with history and drama. Graves was a man of large brain. And Brian Blessed *should* have been in LotR. If they make The Hobbit, he *has* to play Beorn. From now on, I decree that Brian Blessed *must* be in all fantasy/scifi movies of an epic nature. And he has to shout, at least once, or burst through a door with a broadsword.
  • That haunted look on Bernard Hill's face in LoTR, I've always put down to the actor's fear that he was going to be replaced by Brian for any scenes that involved - that's right - waving swords and shouting.
  • Believe you're right, Nostril -- followed by Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina.
  • bees; the novels are "I Claudius" and "Claudius the God." I also read them about once a year. (Alternating semesters, though.)
  • One of the fake Brian Blesseds was Derek Jacoby. Who played Claudius.
  • There were also Jeremy Irons and Ernest Hemmingway as fakes. Who weren't in the series at all, but seemed appropriate.
  • The thing that surprised me about the PBS "I Claudius" was that that it was a pretty scanadlous thing for the 1970s, but never get a squeak from the fundis. I watched in Oklahoma, for god's sake, and no one seemed to mind. My theory is that the fundis don't watch public television.
  • It was made by the British, so was considered 'high art' probably, path. Or your theory is right.
  • And, sorry, but "Livia's" name is Sian Phillips. I found that out when I checked Amazon for a book by her. There is one, which I ordered. She was married to Peter O'Toole for 20 years. Should be good gossip. I also have O'Toole's autobiography, and I found it touching that he always referred to her with as "my widow." Turns out to have been a bit of exaggeration, though.
  • Nostril, believe me, nothing in Oklahoma at that time was considered free from scrutiny because it was "high art." But the public stations there got away with a lot of good stuff.
  • Well I would have hated it there, then. And they would have hated me, I can tell you. But I hear they grow good cannabis there? Or is that Ohio? hehe. Get it? Oh-High-oh. Heheh. What were we talking about, again?
  • Nostril - the idea of getting away with the stuff on PBS was quite a high at the time. This was a place where liquor by the drink wasn't allowed - if you wanted a drink with dinner, you had to join the "club" - that usually cost a dollar - and, supposedly, you had to bring in your own bottle, which would be placed behind the bar with a a piece of tape with your name on it. You might find your name on a bottle of banana flavored stuff, which you'd never drink. Since they'd charge you the price of a drink for what they called a "set up" (ice and whatever dilutant you wanted)while making you what you had ordered out of the bottles in the bar, it was really pretty funny. You could only buy 3.2% beer in the grocery stores. And stronger stuff was only available in state-run liquor stores. They were hard to spot since their signs could only be about 2 feet wide by 1 foot high. The liquor distributors lined up with the churches to ban selling liquor by the drink because they made more money with the system which was in place. Strange bedfellows, indeed. This was also a state which banned branch banking, which probably made them one of the pioneers in ATM card usage, and made you replace your license plate annually at a state franchised agency, instead of just getting a sticker for the current year, since they claimed they couldn't make plates which would last longer. It's also the state where a former governor who had been convicted of serious crimes while in office was hailed by many as a hero when he got out of jail. Wild west? I thought so. I think they've eased up on much of that stuff since I lived there in the 1970s.
  • Oh, and yes, I thing that "red dirt" weed was a pretty big industry there, as well as old fashioned moonshine.
  • I had such a big crush on Brian Blessed as a kid. That voice. That beard. God Bless Brian Blessed.
  • I Clavdivs is great ... John Hurt as Caligula, brilliant. Patrick Stewart with hair, too No, Malcom McDowell as Caligula was brilliant.;)
  • Wonderful! I love this...and I love Brian Blessed--in a wholly platonic although possibly profane way. If they make The Hobbit, he *has* to play Beorn. Speaking as a Bjorn, he has my endorsement.