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My daughter got this for me last week...came in the mail yesterday...and a dear CroweCrosser suggested I might post here about it.
So here I be's....anyway...
OK....where I've been with the booted foot is watching, um, Gladiator. I, in the first place,
wanted the sheer aesthetic pleasure of having it on my foot on the recliner rest and being
able to look over it at the TV screen. I, in the second place, needed to make a somewhat
in-depth study of the bootiness of Maximus and have come to a decided decision...which
is that this is the boot he wears as General in the Germania scenes. He wears this same style
of boot all thru the film except for the mass battle in Zucchabar when he wears a much shorter
one, just over the ankle, and in a lighter color. He wears this brown color in Germania and in
the Are You Not Entertained scene, and the scene on the rooftop with Juba. However, when
in Rome, even tho it's this same style, his boots are black to match his other leather. So the
manure is NOT from the Carthage scene. This boot was really, um, WORN...like in a milling-
around, muddy battle. So that leaves out the Entertained and the rooftop scenes wherein there
was no manure nor mud. Which leaves..ta dah...the General! I think I kinda like that as in epis
and all, he's always dressed as the General. You can tell they were wiped once upon a time,
but they still have ground-in dirt and around the edge of the sole where it's connected to the
top of the boot, is a layer of black mud...which is, of course, from the opening battle sequence.
And he walked where horses had been...which also fits. He obviously also did a lot of sliding
back and forth while wearing them and quick turning movements. So...sigh...I am well and
Generally booted! And I'm happy about it.
I have also a story called surprisingly enough "The General's Boot" rolling around in my brain at the moment. It's, well, gonna be about a woman
who gets the boot from Studio City via England...which is where it does come from...and she puts her foot in it...as I, of course, hadda do
yesterday...and then, um, stuff happens. There is, howsomever, ANOTHER CroweCrosser who tells me I must add to my Cort and my
Marshall storylines before putting yet another iron in the fire. I have at least 6 or 7 in there now, heh heh. Anyway...I was playing around with it
last evening, taking pictures...so here's one of those..I'm going to get a glass case for it. One must take good care of one's horse manure!
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And this is my foot in it...


And THIS is an attempt at as much of a contrast as I could make with it...a very, very, very male thing suddenly in a very female world...

Yep, I'm sayin' it's the genuine boot he wore in the Germania scenes, I am, I am. I have no idea what happened to the right boot. They were only offering the left. But it came with the prop registration number and a raised seal outta the English prop dept. that handles such things. And, yes, I did smell it (I spent my teen years on an angus farm so I'm used to such things) but the dried, um, 'stuff' is SO dried now that it doesn't really have much scent at all left to it, so the boot mostly smells of leather. No, it wasn't a birthday present (that's in January)...she just knows how much I love Maximus and she wanted me to have it. It was $400. For me, it's not even a Russell thing, not really. I don't look at it and think, "Golly gee, Russ had this on his foot!" Nope...I look at it and think, "Ahhhhh....my General!" heh heh heh I know you understand.

Jo