Guy Gibson will talk like General Melchid.
Guy Gibson will talk like General Melchid.
The irony about the british cavalry officer is that he did exist. There was a cavalry officer in the South that commited war crimes. But he was... American.
I don't remember his name but he fought in flanking and in the rearguard. He came across a number of unarmed loyalists, killed half of them and sent the rest into the forests.
Originally Posted by A.J.P. TaylorOriginally Posted by Miel Cools
Cò am Fear am measg ant-sluaigh,
A mhaireas buan gu bràth?
Chan eil sinn uileadh ach air chuart,
Mar dhìthein buaile fàs,Bheir siantannan na bliadhna sìos,'S nach tog a' ghrian an àird.
Originally Posted by Jörg FriedrichOriginally Posted by Louis Napoleon III, Des Idees Napoleoniennes
Originally Posted by Wolfgang Held
Jajem ssoref is m'n korewE goochem mit e wenk, e nar mit e shtompWer niks is, hot kawsones
The Patriot was the most historically accurate movie I've seen in a while. I have such respect for Mel Gibson and his attention to detail.
Like in Braveheart, when the Battle of Stirling Bridge totally had a bridge.
Originally Posted by Hunter S. Thompson
Big difference: In The Patriot, Gibson had no real creative control over anything but his own character. He wasn't the director.
Unlike in Braveheart, wherein he was the director and producer and lead actor.
But that film wasn't meant to be historically accurate, unlike Patriot. It was meant to be an emotional piece of filmmaking that would generate sympathy and enthusiasm for Scottish national-romanticism.
Good point, but I dont actually care about the historical accuracy. I just wanted to do that sterling bridge joke
I like good entertainment and they're both entertaining movies. Of course, if they're claiming historical accuracy on the other hand, it deserves to be put in it's own circle of hell.
aka a thread on the internets.
Originally Posted by Hunter S. Thompson
'When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing — they believe in anything. '
-Emile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophets (1937)
Under the patronage of Nihil. So there.
Glad someone else necroed this so I can make a point (although I don't think it was quite dead, just a bit rotty).
Everyone has different tastes and that is fine but for some people, me included, historical accuracy is fundamentally linked to the enjoyment of a movie. The reasons for that could be many, complex and possibly different for different people. I don't think it is fair to dismiss these views as pedantic and beardy without giving it due thought.
I also think it is dangerous to dismiss as fools the people whose understanding of history is greatly influenced by such movies. It seems to me to be common even among the educated elite and we are all susceptible to these influences in subtle ways that we may not even be aware of.