Ken Speed wrote: |
To be fair it seems to me that we have to ask who or what kind of person was the real Robin Hood or King Arthur or if they even existed. It is, after all, pretty tricky to be authentic when the character is fictional. Now the question becomes authentic to what? |
It doesn't really matter how they decide to interpret whichever legend; again, to me that isn't the problem. The problem is when they pick an historical era and a specific place and say, ok this is our interpretation: King Arthur was a Saromatian in 6th Century Northumbria. Ok fine. Then they dress up as the Picts as filthy cavemen, the Saxons as Capital One Barbarians and etc. It's not about debating the interpretation of a legend, they are saying this legend existed in this historical time which according to them was essentially something like a Medieval Times restaurant. Or a display in the Idiocracy "Time Masheen".
I don't mind in the least if you chose to hold your nose and enjoy it anyway, I'm just saying I don't buy the rationalizations that it doesn't matter, or the idea that accuracy and 'fun' are mutually exclusive.
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I was once watching a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western on a VCR and managed to stop the film at the perfect time to see that smoke came out of his revolver barrel before the hammer fell on the cartridge or primer. |
Again, that is an example of a trivial detail that I couldn't care less about; it's more to do with how 'tight' the production value was not whether or not it was a decent film with a plausible plot. I think this kind of superficial stuff is what is often confused for quality. From where I sit, the production values were much better on the 2010 'Clash of the Titans' than the 1981 version, but the latter was a better film (not great but much better). The 2010 version, which I regret to say I saw, was about as interesting to me as a bad sci fi channel movie. I used to always get at least something out of almost any historical or quasi-historical film, I'm finding that is less and less the case with the ones coming out today, though there are a few exceptions. I liked this version of Beowulf for example, despite some technical errors.
J