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Recent content by Cyber

  1. Cyber

    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    One of the problems with biopics (especially on famous historic figures like Gandhi) is that they are mostly made long after the famous person passed away. So writers are forced to rely on second hand information and/or anecdotes. Gandhi has become a polarising figure since the time Richard...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    I was just thinking how frightening it was being an soldier on active duty in any war zone. Movie producers making a world war 1 or 2 or Vietnam war flick need to consider many of the young 18 years olds (basically teens) didn't want to be there as they were conscripted. For them it was like...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Actually Conan's "enhanced" shiny ornate medieval sword would have come in handy against Akkadian spears back in 3000BC
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Actually Conan fans will know Conan was playing a Sumerian warrior. Now for the purpose historical accuracy here's a Sumerian warrior: and here's Conan
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    And Yul Brynner as Genghis Khan or Schwarzenegger as Conan the Barbarian.
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Yes and when you have a major studio bankrolling a project (warner brothers, Disney or Amazon or Netflix) then there is never one person who makes artistic decisions for films. In case of Disney Star wars (not historical of course) you have Lucasfilm leadership (Filoni and Favreau), Disney...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    And sometimes good acting (actors you listed are all box-office stars) carries a movie. Lets travel to Bollywood for a minute. Indian audience just want to escape from the realities of life for 2-3hrs. Formula for a Bollywood flick isn't that complicated. Good looking glamourous actors, great...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Agreed, however we are applying deep critical thinking lens like professional movie critics, Most people go to a cinema to be entertained. If they are watching a comedy they are expecting to laugh. If it's an adventure, action or Sci-fi then a little escapism and have some fun on the way...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    I understand, but in the court of human opinion casting choices are always questioned, and in the case of beauty it adds another dimension. two examples come to mind. First in 2021 Kristen Stewart was cast to play Princess Diana in the Movie "Spencer" and in 2013 Naomi watts was cast as Diana...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Yes, this is an example of my point. Should the audience understand this type of casting is an artistic choice? film after all is basically art in the form of moving pictures. But does the audience buy into that?
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Although the casting decisions (like for Disney or Netflix productions) seem to have commercial imperatives rather than artistic. For example, top director Christopher Nolan's Greek classic "Odyssey" cast Lupita Nyongo as Helen of troy. was that an artistic decision? it's literally saying Lupita...
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Yes like Guy Ritchie's 2017 film "King Arthur" was inspired a fictionalised historical story. It vas clearly meant to be a fantasy and not taken as a historical work, Same with Matt Damon in the Great wall, tom Cruise in the last Samurai and Eddie Murphy in Mulan,
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Good point. But we both know television and cinema inform people's cultural references > school. At the very least Hollywood or Bollywood or BBC or YouTube reinforces existing beliefs. Look around, we search for entertainment content in our favourite genre that fits with our ontological reality.
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    People internalise what they see on film and it becomes a mental schema of a place and time they have no direct experience with.
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    Should Historical Films be Accurately Portrayed?

    Yeah but he still put on a uniform so I guess he's a type 1.
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