Out fucking standing, Ashe! Every time I see one of those old gladiator movies, and the guys are wearing the big wide belts around their middles, I tend to imagine an arrow, sword or spear stuck navel-high through the belts. Haha. My favorite was an old Steve Reeves flick called The Avengers. In the end, the handsome bad boy kid gets Reeves' sword right through the center of his wide belt. It is way hot! Leather against a razor sharp blade won't work. I even wrote a story about a man wearing one of those belts, which had a carved-out navel in front. Once you carve out a navel in it, the damn thing becomes an instant target, and the thinner leather is no protection at all for the bellybutton behind it. These two could see the danger in wearing the belts, but faced it anyway.....too much belly.....too little protection. A hot belly belt with a spear, dagger, sword or arrow stuck through it is way hot!
Thanks so very much, Dino, this concept did hearken back to those old-style movies as I was drawing it out! I have to admit, the more sadistic side of me fantasizes about being a Roman general with a troop of centurions like this, as I would fatten them up before battle (making sure only their bellies get big and the rest of their bodies stay relatively strong and well-exercised), and I would design armor something like this, with the navel being the clear focal point... then I'd enjoy the show as all my hot, big-bellied, manly men groaned and died while taking arrows, swords and spears in their clearly-defined bellybuttons! Of course, this would make me a terrible general, so it would only be right if I was to take one in the belly too... can't let my men die alone!
And I would love to be the one who shoves my blade through your wide belt. I would want to do it slowly, inch-by-inch, through, and into, the depths of your big belly. I would eventually embrace you and deep-kiss you as I fed you the final inches of my blade. I would prefer using a long-bladed dagger, though, so your big belly contained the entire blade (say 10" long). I would work the blade back and forth like a saw, slicing you up good and proper. So hot!
UHHHhhhhhhh... my bellyyyyyyy... though I couldn't protest, that's exactly what bad guys like me deserve, hehe! I appreciate that you'd take my fat belly into account, too, using a more lengthy dagger custom-fit to ol' Ashe's big gut. Just imagine the satisfaction of killing me like that after wiping out my army of ill-equipped big-bellied bad boys! By the way, I actually did just check out the scene from that movie... love it! I especially liked the shot a minute or so before the stab, where the camera zooms in on his navel as if the hero was calculating his target beforehand.
I've read that among moviemakers, that scene is referred to as "telegraphing", Ashe.....that is homing in on a future target, and telegraphing is more prevalent than we know. Sometimes it's just for a split second, while other times, longer. I once saw a TV western episode in which a gunfighter kid used his polished silver belt buckle to blind his adversaries before he drew on them. Unfortunately for him, the good guy lawman drew and fired a bullet into the center of the kid's belt buckle. The director first showed the belt buckle up close, before they drew on each other. The lawman did get shot, but only in the shoulder. After the kid went down clutching his belly and cringing, the camera showed a close-up on the buckle. In those days, the navel was right behind the buckle and there was a bullet hole in the middle of it.....no blood, of course, but it was way hot, all the same. That's one I wish I had written down, as it is lost to my memory, other than that scene.
Even as a kid I loved the image of a big guy with a spear or arrow jutting straight out of the exact center of his gut, especially if it looked like the weapon had pierced the victim straight through his navel. I learned quickly that I was not alone in this, as even my earliest conversations with other guys on this subject eventually led to them describing with enthusiasm the same image. I would always show my actors this scene from the Steve Reeves LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (at 58:50) as an example. Even though the victim is sort of nondescript, the shot of the spear thunking solidly into his belly always got a good response. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iei8-CEgGAE You could feel the spear lodging solidly into that thick belly and sticking straight out. Everybody I've shown it to agrees it's nailing him right in the navel. A weirder example that plays to the idea of the costume creating a focal point is the 1955 film LAND OF THE PHARAOHS. 30 year-old Sidney Chaplin (yes, Charlie's son!) plays the captain of the guard who is having an affair with the pharaoh's (Jack Hawkins) hot wife, played by a very young Joan Collins. The film turns up occasionally on TCM...it was famed director Howard Hawks' first flop, and an expensive one at that...and nobody in the film looks the least bit believable as an Egyptian. Denny Miller is in it, bare-chested, so it's worth looking for. Anyway, through most of the film the Chaplin character wears an odd outfit with a diamond-shaped cutout in the midsection so his navel is always exposed. Eventually you just start thinking of him as "bellybutton guy". Late in the film, Hawkins discovers his wife's infidelity, and despite being much older, has a vigorous swordfight with the young rival. Finally, though wounded, the pharoah just throws his massive sword right into the guy's belly. In this scene his navel is not exposed, but you remember it from all the earlier scenes. It's almost like foreshadowing. The scene is cleverly staged, with Hawkins on the left, the victim on the right, and a pillar between them. Close examination shows that it was a split-screen effect...Hawkins throws the sword, it disappears behind the pillar, then travels down a wire into the guy's belly and sticks solidly in him. Here's a still I found of the result: http://www.cinemorgue2.com/sydneychaplin.jpg Those were both films that I sat all the way through when I was a kid just to see those cool shots. Your illustration beautifully captures that same feeling. Derek
What a great still, Derek! Thanks for that. I will have to see if I can find that film on YouTube tomorrow. Sounds like a real winner. Too bad they didn't cast Denny Miller in that role. I would have loved seeing him take that big sword in his navel.
I can easily envision my actors doing this scene...Scott as the speared guy left, and Tattoo Guy arrowed in his navel on the right. Both played such scenes several times. Scott was especially good at doing a spear in his big belly, as he loved to thrust his belly in and out to make the spear quiver. Tattoo of course was the master of playing arrowed in the belly to the point of orgasm! Derek
Love the bearded man in the background. He's decrying the stupidity of the armour even as his erection salutes the spear that hit his bullseye. He's pierced right through. It's not surprising given how his huge gut stretches the leather in all directions and actually enlarged the target. He's gonna follow his buddy to hell in just a moment. Great work as always!
Thanks very much! While I was drawing him I was imagining the contracting feeling of the leather belt squeezing his huge belly contrasted with the deep pain of the spear running through him... what a way for a guy to go!
Wonder if they had just enjoyed an amazing feast of food and wine, probably needed help to squeeze those boated ball bellies into those skin tight uniforms. Poor fucks were so fat they didn't have a chance
I like to squeeze my fat belly into tight shirts. I would love a belt like this! To imagine getting an arrow or a spear in my compressed gut - wow, that must be great pain.
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Out fucking standing, Ashe! Every time I see one of those old gladiator movies, and the guys are wearing the big wide belts around their middles, I tend to imagine an arrow, sword or spear stuck navel-high through the belts. Haha. My favorite was an old Steve Reeves flick called The Avengers. In the end, the handsome bad boy kid gets Reeves' sword right through the center of his wide belt. It is way hot! Leather against a razor sharp blade won't work. I even wrote a story about a man wearing one of those belts, which had a carved-out navel in front. Once you carve out a navel in it, the damn thing becomes an instant target, and the thinner leather is no protection at all for the bellybutton behind it. These two could see the danger in wearing the belts, but faced it anyway.....too much belly.....too little protection. A hot belly belt with a spear, dagger, sword or arrow stuck through it is way hot!
ReplyDeleteThanks so very much, Dino, this concept did hearken back to those old-style movies as I was drawing it out! I have to admit, the more sadistic side of me fantasizes about being a Roman general with a troop of centurions like this, as I would fatten them up before battle (making sure only their bellies get big and the rest of their bodies stay relatively strong and well-exercised), and I would design armor something like this, with the navel being the clear focal point... then I'd enjoy the show as all my hot, big-bellied, manly men groaned and died while taking arrows, swords and spears in their clearly-defined bellybuttons! Of course, this would make me a terrible general, so it would only be right if I was to take one in the belly too... can't let my men die alone!
DeleteAnd I would love to be the one who shoves my blade through your wide belt. I would want to do it slowly, inch-by-inch, through, and into, the depths of your big belly. I would eventually embrace you and deep-kiss you as I fed you the final inches of my blade. I would prefer using a long-bladed dagger, though, so your big belly contained the entire blade (say 10" long). I would work the blade back and forth like a saw, slicing you up good and proper. So hot!
DeleteUHHHhhhhhhh... my bellyyyyyyy... though I couldn't protest, that's exactly what bad guys like me deserve, hehe! I appreciate that you'd take my fat belly into account, too, using a more lengthy dagger custom-fit to ol' Ashe's big gut. Just imagine the satisfaction of killing me like that after wiping out my army of ill-equipped big-bellied bad boys! By the way, I actually did just check out the scene from that movie... love it! I especially liked the shot a minute or so before the stab, where the camera zooms in on his navel as if the hero was calculating his target beforehand.
DeleteI've read that among moviemakers, that scene is referred to as "telegraphing", Ashe.....that is homing in on a future target, and telegraphing is more prevalent than we know. Sometimes it's just for a split second, while other times, longer. I once saw a TV western episode in which a gunfighter kid used his polished silver belt buckle to blind his adversaries before he drew on them. Unfortunately for him, the good guy lawman drew and fired a bullet into the center of the kid's belt buckle. The director first showed the belt buckle up close, before they drew on each other. The lawman did get shot, but only in the shoulder. After the kid went down clutching his belly and cringing, the camera showed a close-up on the buckle. In those days, the navel was right behind the buckle and there was a bullet hole in the middle of it.....no blood, of course, but it was way hot, all the same. That's one I wish I had written down, as it is lost to my memory, other than that scene.
DeleteEven as a kid I loved the image of a big guy with a spear or arrow jutting straight out of the exact center of his gut, especially if it looked like the weapon had pierced the victim straight through his navel. I learned quickly that I was not alone in this, as even my earliest conversations with other guys on this subject eventually led to them describing with enthusiasm the same image. I would always show my actors this scene from the Steve Reeves LAST DAYS OF POMPEII (at 58:50) as an example. Even though the victim is sort of nondescript, the shot of the spear thunking solidly into his belly always got a good response. link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iei8-CEgGAE
DeleteYou could feel the spear lodging solidly into that thick belly and sticking straight out. Everybody I've shown it to agrees it's nailing him right in the navel.
A weirder example that plays to the idea of the costume creating a focal point is the 1955 film LAND OF THE PHARAOHS. 30 year-old Sidney Chaplin (yes, Charlie's son!) plays the captain of the guard who is having an affair with the pharaoh's (Jack Hawkins) hot wife, played by a very young Joan Collins. The film turns up occasionally on TCM...it was famed director Howard Hawks' first flop, and an expensive one at that...and nobody in the film looks the least bit believable as an Egyptian. Denny Miller is in it, bare-chested, so it's worth looking for. Anyway, through most of the film the Chaplin character wears an odd outfit with a diamond-shaped cutout in the midsection so his navel is always exposed. Eventually you just start thinking of him as "bellybutton guy". Late in the film, Hawkins discovers his wife's infidelity, and despite being much older, has a vigorous swordfight with the young rival. Finally, though wounded, the pharoah just throws his massive sword right into the guy's belly. In this scene his navel is not exposed, but you remember it from all the earlier scenes. It's almost like foreshadowing. The scene is cleverly staged, with Hawkins on the left, the victim on the right, and a pillar between them. Close examination shows that it was a split-screen effect...Hawkins throws the sword, it disappears behind the pillar, then travels down a wire into the guy's belly and sticks solidly in him. Here's a still I found of the result:
http://www.cinemorgue2.com/sydneychaplin.jpg
Those were both films that I sat all the way through when I was a kid just to see those cool shots. Your illustration beautifully captures that same feeling.
Derek
What a great still, Derek! Thanks for that. I will have to see if I can find that film on YouTube tomorrow. Sounds like a real winner. Too bad they didn't cast Denny Miller in that role. I would have loved seeing him take that big sword in his navel.
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DeleteI can easily envision my actors doing this scene...Scott as the speared guy left, and Tattoo Guy arrowed in his navel on the right. Both played such scenes several times. Scott was especially good at doing a spear in his big belly, as he loved to thrust his belly in and out to make the spear quiver. Tattoo of course was the master of playing arrowed in the belly to the point of orgasm!
ReplyDeleteDerek
I can definitely see that! They would have made a killer duo onscreen together, for sure!
DeleteAlways thought that body armor with the navel sculpted in it was an idea of guys like us..lol
ReplyDeleteFreaking AWESOME!
ReplyDeleteGlad you like it, man!
DeleteLove the bearded man in the background. He's decrying the stupidity of the armour even as his erection salutes the spear that hit his bullseye. He's pierced right through. It's not surprising given how his huge gut stretches the leather in all directions and actually enlarged the target. He's gonna follow his buddy to hell in just a moment. Great work as always!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much! While I was drawing him I was imagining the contracting feeling of the leather belt squeezing his huge belly contrasted with the deep pain of the spear running through him... what a way for a guy to go!
DeleteI found the clip I posted about above on March 23rd about LAND OF THE PHAROAHS. I have posted it here: https://youtu.be/mOnI6JB8tiM
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Ooops. It's gone. Thanks, anyway, Derek.
DeleteWhat do you mean Oops it's gone? I just played it. It's fine.
DeleteTry this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOnI6JB8tiM&feature=youtu.be
I just checked again, both links work fine. Try again.
DeleteDerek
Weird. It still says "video not available".
DeleteSorry, I had the privacy setting wrong. Try it now, should work. My bad. It's been a long time since I posted a video.
DeleteThanks, Derek. It was worth the wait. I assume that they didn't show him again after he fell. Hot scene!
DeleteWonder if they had just enjoyed an amazing feast of food and wine, probably needed help to squeeze those boated ball bellies into those skin tight uniforms. Poor fucks were so fat they didn't have a chance
ReplyDeleteI like to squeeze my fat belly into tight shirts. I would love a belt like this! To imagine getting an arrow or a spear in my compressed gut - wow, that must be great pain.
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