Period Piece

Every so often it's cool in Hollywood to do these period pieces where you do some kind of dramatized/romanticized re-enactments of historical happenings or just stories to get people in the mood of how things might have been way back when. And sometimes they'll go to great lengths to make the costumes and the sets and all that really accurate, which will be great, but then they'll have like American actors pretending to be from Troy or France or whatever. You know, like an Australian Mel Gibson playing Braveheart. Or Brad Pitt in whatever that movie was that everyone but me saw.

My idea is that you really go all the way, including the language part, so that if you're doing a story about the Romans, you do it in Latin, with subtitles.

This could work really well with the Canterbury Tales, for example. The Canterbury Tales definitely have film potential, for one thing. Chaucer already has most of the script written in Middle English for you. And Middle English might even be vaguely comprehensible once you get into the swing of things.

I know there will be legions of people who will never see it because they're allergic to subtitles, but I still think it's a rad idea and should be tried at least once and probably lots of times.