On Sunday 24 September 2006 5:18 am, Sharon L. Krossa wrote: > At 12:44 PM -0400 9/23/06, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote: > > > And "King Arthur" with Clive Owen, Keira Knightley in blue paint and > > > leather bra, > > > >Beats me why they seemed to think she was a Pict. :-)
> Beats me why they seemed to think a Pict would have worn an outfit > apparently inspired by the female lead in the science fiction film > _The Fifth Element_! True. The Pict angle would only explain their use of blue paint, not the rest of the rig. ;-) > Other, of course, then the general modern movie fashion for basing > historical film costuming on sf/fantasy costuming. (In my opinion, a > study of the development of historical movie/tv costuming can't be > done without considering and covering the developments in fantasy > film/tv costuming -- most modern historicals owe more to Xena Warrior > Princess and the like than any historical research for their > costuming... And by this I really do mean there is a connection, not > just that the costuming isn't as historically accurate as it could > be.) Though there's also a decent argument that it's a waste of time and money to devote historical costume research to a summer popcorn movie--which this particular "King Arthur" definitely was. So that leaves the costume department cribbing from the SF/Fantasy section--the other source of popcorn movies..... -- Cathy Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity." --Robert Frost _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
