No you stupid Hollywood person, its wrong.
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speaking of history...Zombie Izzard said:
you'll always see that that main protagonist has vaules/Ideas that are more in line with our modern world
like...
racism? wrong
slavery? wrong
treat women eaqually? you bet!
when its likley they agreed with such attitudes..or were at least apathetic to them
or when your in a historical setting and youve got the obligatory "chick who does stuff" Im all for females doing stuff...but I still cant help go "silly women, doing things is for MEN!" if its historical..then again I could be underestimating the chances that a woman could "do stuff" (like fight and such)
In my geology class, we had to watch 2012 and write a paper on all the inaccuracies. Btw, they would have never survived that plane take off being chased by volcanic debris.brandon237 said:
You had to write a paper... on ALL of them?AlAaraaf74 said:
That must have been a damn long paper then >.<What is wonderful is how it gets physics, technology, geology and society all so wrong in ONE movie. While managing to help continue the "paranoia" about the end of the world. That takes skill.
Gods YES. When I watch or read something fictionally historical, I want the protagonist to be homophobic, to believe that women's job is to be protected by men, and to regard black people as an inferior kind of creature. Do I hold these views? Nope. But I don't want my historical character to have views that are completely out of place just for the sake of pleasing a modern-day audience that, from their point of view, doesn't exist. It's as if a novel about our time would have the protagonist hold views on gender and race that are going to spread around the year 2,500 or so, just to please the readers in the future.Vault101 said:
The primary reason is that they do not want to risk hurting the horses. Productions get a lot of flak when horses get hurt during filming even if it is from something that is a normal danger to horses. They are not going to risk it just for the sake of historic accuracy that only a big horse buff would care about. As far as post-production goes, that is a cost issue. They are not going to pay for an expensive process that does not add to the story.requisitename said:
There are practical reasons for some of the inaccuracies Hollywood propagates.
In-flippin'-deedy. That was, to me, the nail in the coffin back when I tried to watch that show a few years back. "Could almost have been written by 4chan itself!" is not a signum you want on your show, or at least not what you should want.Trezu said:
But then again, that's the problem I have with crime-dramas in general. Well, bad crime dramas. They're always such a glaring moral undercurrent to it, it's always some sort of "weirdo" subculture at the bottom of it. It's either some pagan cult sacrificing each other, some Great War reinacting-thing going horribly wrong, some people having some non-wholesome sex or whatever else seems weird and unnormal. It feels as if those crime-dramas wants to make me nod my head, sighing "Oh, those strange, strange people... Should have known they were behind it all".
Also, the pyramids where not built in the way most imagine them being built, with masses of worn, scarred slaves in rags labouring away in the sun, with some big meanie (usually in armour made out of an alloy not to be discovered for milennia) cracking a whip at their backs. The evidence so far points towards that they were built by free labourers, peasants with nothing better to do but wait around while the nile flooded and renourished their fields, payed from the royal granary for building the king's latest compensational monument.
Oh, and horses aren't cars. They tend to tire and require rest and care to remain viable mounts for very long. Also, they've got minds of their own. Cavalry horses are, of course, drilled and trained to put up with much more than ordinary horses, but I still doubt they'd fancy all stampeeding down an insanely steep slope right into a bunch of scary-smelling Orcs with sharp sticks, Gandalf.
Yes, I believe I said that I knew they didn't let them go barefoot because it's bad for the horses' feet/legs. I'm cool with that. I reserve the right to be as inordinately bothered by horse shoes as other people are about whether a this gun *sounds* like a that gun or hacking is "As seen on TV," though. It isn't accurate.. which is kind of the point of this post.Nielas said:
People acting straight-faced with an obviously fake British accent.
Luckily, I'm seeing this less and less but occasionally there are cringe-worthy moments where I'm just like `We dont talk like that!`
I can ignore most things unless they are just really obvious. Like that `High Score in ALL MMO's` mentioned earlier
Luckily, I'm seeing this less and less but occasionally there are cringe-worthy moments where I'm just like `We dont talk like that!`
I can ignore most things unless they are just really obvious. Like that `High Score in ALL MMO's` mentioned earlier
Yeah I know, I'm just nitpicky sometimes. Modern ones are generally called miniguns now as a catch all, since gatling gun really just refers to the gun Richard J. Gatling designed. I'm a little anal retentive about this things sometimes, its a flaw.Surpheal said:
Thankfully, no. We only needed to include three examples and explinations. Listing every inaccuracy would give me hand cramps...brandon237 said:You had to write a paper... on ALL of them?AlAaraaf74 said:
What is wonderful is how it gets physics, technology, geology and society all so wrong in ONE movie. While managing to help continue the "paranoia" about the end of the world. That takes skill.
