Why isn't there a worthwhile tv show or a movie about this amazing period in human history?
The Black Plague
Julian Bailey
David Parker
Indeed. T’would be a massively enlarged prostate of a show
Nolan Gutierrez
There were some awesome posts about plague doctors on here once; I don't have any of them, unfortunately.
Brayden Jenkins
Plague kino
Jackson Gray
Black Death with Sean Bean
Xavier Cook
>tfw master race Italian American and Immune to the black plague
Would be pretty kino if it did come back again, ofcourse id be safe though.
Ryder Anderson
kek
Kevin Thomas
>le spooky bird mask
Was this actually a common thing?
Connor Sanders
Cap from the movie.
Chase Jenkins
Agree. Can't wait for the "based on real events" about the womyn who actually cured the whole thing and the ending when they save the pope for the white rats.
Daniel Morris
tfw obsessed with the black plague, watch all youtube vids and even read medical papers on how yersinia shuts down the immune system despite not understanding it
Adam Gomez
Jackson James
They believed the mask allowed them enough protection to examine plague victims, hence worn by "plague doctors".
Jose Cooper
Something like 15% of europeans are immune to yersinia, and its still around it never really left but people dont die to it anymore since we discovered antibiotics
Daniel Robinson
They stuffed the beak with herbs and stuff because they believed the plague was airborne and the scent would overpower it.
Gabriel Morgan
Black Death was pretty good.
Jason Bennett
they jammed a bunch of herbs in the beak to fend off vapors or some other idiotic shit. most of them died. go figure
Matthew Cooper
I'd rather have a series about Justinians reign, with a full season focusing on the plague.
Jonathan Perry
>Humanist literature starts to appear
>People abandon worship of Jesus and instead start worshipping the Virgin Mary as their saviour
Very interesting period. I live in LA, so I think I'll get to see it again, soon. There is already bubonic plague on skid row. Only a matter of time until it spreads all over the city
Hunter Ortiz
Unlimited kino potential
Dylan Peterson
Yes. The mask was believed to prevent miasma from getting to the person in the suit. The beak is filled with good smelling things like flowers since the belief was that good smelling things counter bad smelling things. The suit was a step in the right direction however, it was almost completely sealed but many of them had seems in the boots and legging parts that the bugs would crawl through and transmit the plague.
Plague doctors were mostly people to collect the dead and count how many people were infected since nobody really knew what to do and they usually spread the plague themselves without knowing. Some were scammers who would charge insane amounts for a cure that wouldn't do anything. It was a shitty job, during a shitty time, for shitty people and most died.
Nathan Morris
>ywn bash nitwits over the head with your sweet plague doctor cane
Adam Brooks
Flesh and Blood not bad, plus a naked Jennifer Jason Leigh
Blake Sanders
They believed in something called "miasma" that people got sick because of "bad or foul" air so they put herbs in the beak of the gas mask.
The ironic thing is that yersinia is not airborn and the protective clothing of the costume is what would of lowered there chance of becoming infected, not the gas mask (which would work against airborne bacteria and viruses)
Oliver Russell
Dylan Sullivan
Imagine a cartoon in this style
John Peterson
>Black death
sign me up :^)
Jose Watson
>worthwhile
fuck outta here with that shite
Andrew Wilson
>It was a shitty job
Depends on the time. Once an epidemic starts they will pay good money for just about anyone to do the work which meant hiring a bunch of criminals who would freely loot and demand money in exchange for not having people carted off as plague carriers.
Also in the general mass hysteria you could call someone out as being an enemy agent/devil who is spreading it and have them duly lynched.
The thing I like about miasma theory is how it makes complete sense given the information they had at the time and many early sanitation systems worked on the idea. Things that smell bad almost always *are* bad.
Landon Morris
I NEED PLAGUEDOCTOR GF PLEASE GOD LET ME HAVE THIS
Zachary Baker
Post a rec or fuck off, aspie
Noah Morgan
Don't worry. The state of California is looking to make a sequel!
Carter Gutierrez
Not only that, it is literally the reason why we evolved to find things that can make us sick foul smelling.
Mason Bailey
Christian Thomas
I keep thinking the comic book The Marquis uses a plague doctor mask, but it is a bit kore stub nosed. Plus his hat is kore of a tricorner. It is more Baroque than plague times.
Carter Sullivan
There is no way Sean Bean survived this film, right?
Lucas Miller
What do you think? He stays true to form.
Kevin Williams
There is The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. Saw it when I was a kid, and rewatched it recently. It's not the greatest, but it's pretty slim pickings when it comes to plague kino desu.
Chase Wilson
Hey. What's going on in this thread?
Anthony Powell
Based plague-chan cleansing the streets of California.
Aiden Morris
the rossellini tv movie Cartesius briefly touches on the plague and the doctors and nosferatu the vampyre has people dying of the plague
Jace Turner
Any movie that has a Roger Ebert endorsement taking up 10% of the poster is probably a piece of shit
Adam Taylor
Isn't the plague doctor in Darkest Dungeon a female?
Levi Clark
Skid Row is hilarious. Sadly there's a coke slurpee at 7th and Olive or thereabouts that actually tastes like coke so I put myself in jeopardy on occasion.
Ian Butler
There aren't a lot of plague movies to choose from so it's a relative measure.
Lucas Morgan
too many white people
Noah Lewis
The Seventh Seal
Aaron Bailey
The purpose of the beak is that it was filled with oils and herbs and stuff that they believed neutralized the airborne disease even though it was basically useless according to modern medicine.
Asher Price
post pics