> the character “Tavington”
The movie didn’t even use the guy’s name? So, IOW, the dolts over the Pond are complaining about nothin’? It was a movie, it wasn’t a documentary. I mean, “The Gladiator” had an actual emperor’s name, and I think the sister’s name is correct, but in reality, he executed her, not the other way around. :’) He wound up getting killed by his wife’s lover, I think while he was bathing. :’D Michael Grant writes that “Commodus had something wrong with his groin.” Heh...
No.
The script originally called for exact names and places, but was partly changed so as to allow the freedom to condense the events a bit, or else face large editing cuts to squeeze the script into the time allowed for the movies.
They could have used exact names in the final film, but then it would have been inaccurate.