Thread: HISTORICAL ACCURACY IN MOVIES

Originally Posted by rangietragic

That's why all u.s. shows no matter where they are set have african and hispanic characters.Can't see the problem with a show about eskimoes only having eskimoes in it.

It is politically correct to have a token black fellow and an hispanic in all american productions these days.

Not forgetting that 51% of americans are now hispanic.

Dr Who is an historical documentary, absolutely, and at the same time entertaining.

Historical accuracy in the movies should always be taken with a pinch of salt!!

How Green Was My Valley was made in the 40s , set in South Wales.
At least half of the cast spoke with Southern Irish accents and the rest in RADA English!!

Jules

In those Robin Hood movies mentioned earlier, I always marvel at the ease with which the actor draws a long bow to full extension. A 100 lb. English war bow took an archer trained to the bow from boyhood to draw it and he used the strength of both arms and shoulders and upper body to do so.

I saw a Sherlock Holmes movie a little while ago. Imagine my surprise when at the end it was revealed he was not even in the movie. They had substituted some actor to play his part.

I wanted my money back.

Of course all those things pale into insignificance compared with the unforgivable inaccuracy of Land Rovers in WWII films.

My pet peeve; Hoyle's War. A great show; good plots; well acted; set in Britian in the years immediately after the second world war. The cars and streetscapes are authentic except for the Routeman double decker us that was not produced until over ten years later.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

My pet peeve; Hoyle's War. A great show; good plots; well acted; set in Britian in the years immediately after the second world war. The cars and streetscapes are authentic except for the Routeman double decker us that was not produced until over ten years later.

I picked that too.

Speaking of Robin Hood..... good King Richard the Lionheart was a Frenchy who couldn't speak English and spent almost no time there. He once said of England that he would sell it to finance another war if he could find a buyer. That wasn't in the Errol Flynn version