Galley Slaves Gallery

[Vladimir_Vladislav]

View attachment 1468556 In the engine room of the galley of the new passenger line

This notorious scene in The Magic Christian... with Raquel Welch as the Priestess of The Whip.

I like to imagine how the actress recruitment process would go... "We need you for a... 30 second scene... to wear some rags and row naked... pulling metal rods... on a galley... built inside a modern ship." Do that successfully at least 100 times.

 

[ianwarrick]

"More Speed!"

The captain of the galley called down below decks to the two slave drivers "More speed!"

One of the brutes shouted to the naked slave girls "You heard him, whores. Get you butts moving." The other slave driver randomly chose a girl, the young brunette on bench 12, to dramatize the captain's order.

She whimpered in shock and pain as the lash crossed her naked back.

She should have been fastened to the mast and flogged unconscious as a warning to the other slaves to row faster

 

[KageKamen]

That’s me … lower left … wondering whether it’s okay to ask about when the next bathroom break will be …

It's your nextdoor neighbour who provides the answer, although not verbally (at least at first).

 

[Briccone]

Just found this vidcap of a deleted scene from an old Ben Hur movie

 

[Eulalia]

That’s me … lower left … wondering whether it’s okay to ask about when the next bathroom break will be …

or when will the drinks trolley come around?

 

[Vladimir_Vladislav]

or when will the drinks trolley come around?

Granted, galley slave girls would be more motivated if the oars were wired to a screen that would display the highest score. At the end of each rowing day, the ones with the highest scores would get to write down their names at the top of the leaderboard using three letters.

A fight nearly broke out, since both @Barbaria1 and Bartolomea, once an Italian nun, now a galley slave girl, wanted to use the "BAR" nickname for their scores.
Rather than breaking them up, the overseers installed some scoreboards that would be used as health bars, and the other rowers were ordered to form a choir and sing the Mortal Kombat theme.