Posted on 09/24/2011 4:19:32 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
I just saw the Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame. It was a fun movie and I really enjoyed hearing well-spoken Mandarin, but it took place in something like 689AD and in the market place they had big ears of dried maize hanging there.
Another Tombstone movie, YOUNG BILLY YOUNG. Awful! Main characters had name changes and Robert Michum and Angie Dickenson’s acting was definitly not up to par! It looks like they made this movie in one take!
How about The Untouchables? The movie went completely off the rails at the end where “Frank Nitti” (played by Ed from Northern Exposure) is killed by Elliot Ness in a shootout. Shame on you, David Mamet, for that screenplay.
Nitti’s portrayal in The Road to Perdition, written by Max Allan Collins and played by Stanley Tucci, was dead on accurate.
It’s not like Amadeus was a history lesson either. Drama doesn’t set out to be a history.
Inherit the Wind wasn’t based on the historical events but on a Broadway play which was an admitted fictionalization of the events.
The Untouchables was a Romanticized piece of historical fiction. No one claimed otherwise.
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You could say the same about every other movie mentioned in this thread. If you put real people in it, you make yourself vulnerable to charges of inaccuracy. The work of Max Allan Collins shows that you can make compelling history-based fiction without sacrificing accuracy.
You’re exactly right and that’s why the “Historical Accuracy” criterion is so silly. Drama and History are two different things and should not be judged by the same standards.
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“WE WERE SOLDIERS” = 85% accurate
...per Lt. Gen. HAL G. MOORE (Ret.) & JOE GALLOWAY
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Know some things about the Bonnie and Clyde story. The movie is something of a toss up for me as far as historical accuracy. Bonnie Parker, I was told by people who knew or at least saw them, was a beautiful woman. At least until she was burned badly in an overturned car. She was also just as fearless or crazy with a gun as the movie portrayed. Story on Clyde Barrow was that he could take a Model A Ford cross country better than a modern day Jeep Wrangler.
William Bendix playing in the “Babe Ruth Story”....probably the worst baseball movie ever made....ever!
Great line.
300 was obviously inaccurate, but it’s also one of my favorites.
As with "The Battle of the Bulge," you hire the Spanish army and you get what you get. At least the German bombers that strafe Patton at the beginning are the later Spanish version of the German He-111 design.
I heard tht Rod Serling despised the show and said so on the Tonight Show. He was a former POW.
"The Greatest Story Every Told" starring the white guy with the gorgeous feminine hair....
"The Blob" (I think the actual Blob was a different color).
"Rocky" (you could tell it was historically inaccurate because the last round was only about 49 seconds long.)
So there....
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