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Adam M.M.
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 Posted: Tue 23 Dec, 2014 10:56 am Post subject: Historically accurate movies? |
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Historical accuracy in movies is notoriously bad, but are there any that actually portray things (relatively) accurately? I'm especially interested in ones set in the medieval period.
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Luka Borscak
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Arn the Templar Knight is a relatively accurate movie...
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Matthew Bunker
Location: Somerset UK Joined: 02 Apr 2009
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Do you mean in terms of the events depicted or the quality of the costumes and props?
If the latter then, for me, it's a toss up between Name of the Rose and The Lion in Winter (the original Peter O'Toole/Katherine Hepburn version, not the modern travesty) with the Hour of the Pig bringing up the rear.
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Matthew P. Adams
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The Duellists
But it's after your period of interest.
"We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training" Archilochus, Greek Soldier, Poet, c. 650 BC
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Tom King
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Mart Shearer
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| Tom King wrote: | | Kindom of heaven was actually pretty accurate.... for crusader armor. |
For the period between the 2nd and 3rd Crusades? Uh, no. Get rid of all the surcoats, then we'll talk.
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Pieter B.
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Blackadder
More or less.
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Matthew Amt
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Nothing captures the spirit of the era like Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
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Luke Adams
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Tirante el Blanco was pretty good, and it had a great dubbing job!
"God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."
- German proverb
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Joe Fults
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Bwahhhaaa ha ha ha haaaaaw!!!
Seriously though, I'll just second Black Adder.  
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Paul B.G
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Alatriste is pretty good.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0395119/
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Edward Lee
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The old Romeo and Juliet had some pretty legit stuff. The rest, I can't think of any that doesn't do the 360 degree turn during fights.
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Josh Wilson
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For later time periods, I think its hard to beat "Master and Commander" and the Alfred Hitchcock "Jamaica Inn". The scene in the latter where Charles Laughton correctly loads his pistol with a paper cartridge really makes that movie.
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Sancar O.
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How about "Sharpe" and "Hornblower" TV series? They look pretty decent yo me in historical accuracy department; but I am not a Napoleonic era expert.
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Ralph Grinly
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Well, maybe not Medieval, but the original Seven Samurai was fairly authentic. 
Also, if I recall, the David Hemmings "Alfred the Great" was fairly accurate. Does anyone know if it's ever been released on DVD ??
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Roger Hooper
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I've never seen it, but I've heard that The Warlord, starring Charlton Heston, is an accurate movie - 11th century Normandy.
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James Arlen Gillaspie
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I'm rather fond of that movie, but the mail is not accurate. They did not know how to tailor it, so they did some strange things to make it work. I don't know why they didn't just find some Eastern mail, except perhaps Mr. Heston was a very large man, and hard to fit.
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Lin Robinson
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| Luka Borscak wrote: | | Arn the Templar Knight is a relatively accurate movie... |
Luka...
I have to ask in what ways this movie, which I have seen, is historically accurate?
Lin Robinson
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Luka Borscak
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| Lin Robinson wrote: | | Luka Borscak wrote: | | Arn the Templar Knight is a relatively accurate movie... |
Luka...
I have to ask in what ways this movie, which I have seen, is historically accurate? |
Well, I did say relatively... Weaponry, while not perfect is better than in most other movies about crusades, events in the movie are also historical events although they are of course romanticized and modified... Certainly much better than Kingdom of Heaven...
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Josh Wilson
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| Posted: Fri 26 Dec, 2014 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Luka Borscak wrote: | | Lin Robinson wrote: | | Luka Borscak wrote: | | Arn the Templar Knight is a relatively accurate movie... |
Luka...
I have to ask in what ways this movie, which I have seen, is historically accurate? |
Well, I did say relatively... Weaponry, while not perfect is better than in most other movies about crusades, events in the movie are also historical events although they are of course romanticized and modified... Certainly much better than Kingdom of Heaven... |
I must agree with you about it being better than Kingdom of Heaven. At least they are wearing braies and chausses in Arn.
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