theOven: To believe or not to believe
theOven203A3A20To20believe20or20not20believe203A3A20May203A3A202005
Its strange you say that Oven, i was thinking about this ten minutes ago. I was watching bicenntenial man just a tonight and one of the things that annoy me is some of the things in the movie just weren’t realistic, hence it destroyed it for me.
One thing that i hate with Troy and other similar movies is the american accents. Why with the american accents? Did the Trojans have american accents? Did the King of England have an american accent… in a Knights Tale they ALL have American accents. This totally destroys a movie for me. That is as much as i give to a film before i discount it as unrealistic, and once its unrealistic i find it stupid and ill planned.
Im sure with the millions that they pumped into ‘A knights tale’ they could have done some reasearch into what accents that people had in the Dark Ages of Europe. Another thing about that movie is that Heath Ledgers character lies his way into the jousting contest by saying his name is Sir Ulrich Von Liectenstien from Gelderland, i mean what the hell is that? (there was a real knight called Ulrich von Liechtenstein, but he wasn’t from Gelderland, he was from Liechtenstein) If his name is Ulrich Von Liechtenstein then surely his English wouldnt be crash hot, but there he was, perfect English in an Aussie/ bad English accent.
One more thing in that movie was the Armourer (the female, sorry ladies i dont mean to offend but this was also very unlikely) branded her armour with a Nike tick (?!?!?!?), what the fuck was that? It seemed like a little joke (obviously funded by Nike who want people to think they’d been around since the dark ages… we started in jousting armour, and slowly moved to shoes, why? we Just Did It) but it was HISTORICALLY WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG… if your going to do all this crap, then make it fantasy ala Lord of the Rings.
You see it was in context, context. If your going to do something that requires a set time in history, or place, then you have to keep it in context. When i make films i wil have a guy, whose sole job is to make sure everything is in context.
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