a little plea
from little me - to the TV peeps out there...
I get that British mythology is pretty and you wanna use it in your shows - I do - and I can ignore it/play along and ignore the inconsistencies - but could you please not warp our history?? Please??
I know it happens (I love Sharpe - but it's more the books than the TV version - sean and daragh are responsible for that - through the most recent made me and the da wince something awful) - but it so rarely seems to be anyone British doing it - it's always some American writer who seems to think that sounds sooo cool. And it's never properly researched.
Films:
From Hell - that Jack the Ripper film with Johnny Depp? I liked - why? - because they'd researched - they may have drawn a conclusion - but they included all the theories - so it was forgivable - it wasn't like they ignored anything. Had they just taken the side that it was some crazed male doctor - I wouldn't have liked it. See - I, like a lot of other people I know, had a short love affair with researching Jack, along with a number of other people (to this day Jane Grey remains my favourite English Queen - cos she was damn it!) and I remember most of the main theories (including the ones that suggest it wasn't even the same person).
Tristan and Isolde - I know this is Myth, but they decided to place it in history....gone retarded. It was another of those god awful american's do British history using a myth - did they actually research anything?? Hell they even had the newest version of the myth that they were working with. *sighs*
They shot Anglo-saxon/post-roman britain to hell - and considering I'd just done that in a lecture - it was all the more painful - there are way too many films that I now have to avoid, because it's sooooo painful.
Braveheart....yeah. It was BAD. And for anyone who's interested? Wallace was, at least the closest that we can guess, another one of those french lads that led the Scots to war. William De Wallace. Yeah - so I think that says it all.
TV:
Oh, trying so hard to think of examples that aren't Arthurian myth gone to hell....nope - right now can't name any off the top of my head
European:
TV:
Rome.....that god awful series that is still going and that in the first five minutes I spotted way too many mistakes - it was truly painful - yeah - this is not historically accurate, AT ALL *shudders*
Film:
Numerous - and too many to count - many Roman and Greek - plus of those Alexander movies *looks scared*
I kinda forgive the ancient films - but in this day and age - people should research!! And respect our history and much as they do their own. OR if they're not going to? Change names - or say outright that they haven't researched/it's based on their own opinion - cos peeps?? I'm sure there are other things you can use for dramatic effect than our history mangled into some odd shape.
Also - there are somethings that just shouldn't be touched.
I get that British mythology is pretty and you wanna use it in your shows - I do - and I can ignore it/play along and ignore the inconsistencies - but could you please not warp our history?? Please??
I know it happens (I love Sharpe - but it's more the books than the TV version - sean and daragh are responsible for that - through the most recent made me and the da wince something awful) - but it so rarely seems to be anyone British doing it - it's always some American writer who seems to think that sounds sooo cool. And it's never properly researched.
Films:
From Hell - that Jack the Ripper film with Johnny Depp? I liked - why? - because they'd researched - they may have drawn a conclusion - but they included all the theories - so it was forgivable - it wasn't like they ignored anything. Had they just taken the side that it was some crazed male doctor - I wouldn't have liked it. See - I, like a lot of other people I know, had a short love affair with researching Jack, along with a number of other people (to this day Jane Grey remains my favourite English Queen - cos she was damn it!) and I remember most of the main theories (including the ones that suggest it wasn't even the same person).
Tristan and Isolde - I know this is Myth, but they decided to place it in history....gone retarded. It was another of those god awful american's do British history using a myth - did they actually research anything?? Hell they even had the newest version of the myth that they were working with. *sighs*
They shot Anglo-saxon/post-roman britain to hell - and considering I'd just done that in a lecture - it was all the more painful - there are way too many films that I now have to avoid, because it's sooooo painful.
Braveheart....yeah. It was BAD. And for anyone who's interested? Wallace was, at least the closest that we can guess, another one of those french lads that led the Scots to war. William De Wallace. Yeah - so I think that says it all.
TV:
Oh, trying so hard to think of examples that aren't Arthurian myth gone to hell....nope - right now can't name any off the top of my head
European:
TV:
Rome.....that god awful series that is still going and that in the first five minutes I spotted way too many mistakes - it was truly painful - yeah - this is not historically accurate, AT ALL *shudders*
Film:
Numerous - and too many to count - many Roman and Greek - plus of those Alexander movies *looks scared*
I kinda forgive the ancient films - but in this day and age - people should research!! And respect our history and much as they do their own. OR if they're not going to? Change names - or say outright that they haven't researched/it's based on their own opinion - cos peeps?? I'm sure there are other things you can use for dramatic effect than our history mangled into some odd shape.
Also - there are somethings that just shouldn't be touched.