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Something that should also bug them history fanatics.

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In Reply to: RE: The Ten Most historically inaccurate movies of all time posted by Duilawyer on March 30, 2008 at 11:36:36

So, using mammoths to build the pyramids gauls them (get it, gauls?) yet they are OK with the people speaking the English 10,000 years ago?

How about all those movies about them there foreign cultures, yet they all speak freaking English?

If they want historical accuracy, then they should hit the roof any time Nazis speak English when they are alone in a scene, or wonder how Mozart managed to speak fluent English in his daily life in Austria.

We should be "reading" along the bottom of the screen for most of the movies we see, if we demand "accuracy."

Anyway, how about "Knight's Tale," the one with Heath Ledger where they play rock tunes during jousting matches?

Yeah, that's a good one.

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RE: Something that should also bug them history fanatics. - RGA 08:37:07 04/29/08 (0)
I think you're missing the point. Speaking English in film does not detract from accuracy since the audience is aware that while they are speaking English that is not the language they really spoke.

As for films being passed off as historical films such as the Patriot - they are a little more dangerous as most people get their history from the movies. That film above all the ones there is the one to worry about because it tries to create patriotism through false propaganda turning a cruel insensitive intolerant nasty person into some sort of a hero and painting the British in a light that simply was untrue.

And before you think that the population base would not be fooled - well more than 1/3 of Americans believe the earth is 10,000 years old which is 100% Factually proven to be completely and absolutely wrong. Nevertheless, they still believe it because some guy at a podium trying to collect money to buy his Private Jet tells them so.

Going to the movies to get history is virtually always not the way to get it. The Ten Commandments is a nice fiction but it's passed off as actually being true.

People stop believing in the easter bunny and Santa Claus but continue to believe in the Christian or other religion sky God -- all movies about that should be on this list - they're the dangerous movies - and movies like the Patriot which teaches patriotism through lying.

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