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It's scientifantastic
Watched Tekken and The 13th Warrior last night, the former being an unintentionally funny animated film based on the video game series; the latter being Antonio Banderas playing a Medeval Arab poet who takes up the sword alongside a band of Vikings to fight some Scandinavian cannibal cave-dwellers.
Phew. Long sentence.
I keep telling myself to avoid historically-based films, because they always have to bend the truth (a generally accepted truth, anyway) to fit the narrative. Gladiator sucked, both as a drama and as a representation of historical Rome. And Braveheart (which I liked) was a Mel Gibson vehicle first, a reasonable representation of the facts last.
(Granted, not having lived at that time, or studied relics firsthand, I can't say for sure, but everything I've read points to elements of these films being warped, or just dead wrong.)
I guess more scholarly treatments wouldn't sell movie tickets.
Phew. Long sentence.
I keep telling myself to avoid historically-based films, because they always have to bend the truth (a generally accepted truth, anyway) to fit the narrative. Gladiator sucked, both as a drama and as a representation of historical Rome. And Braveheart (which I liked) was a Mel Gibson vehicle first, a reasonable representation of the facts last.
(Granted, not having lived at that time, or studied relics firsthand, I can't say for sure, but everything I've read points to elements of these films being warped, or just dead wrong.)
I guess more scholarly treatments wouldn't sell movie tickets.