Greetings--
monica spence wrote:
"we are doing history in a completely
different way."
AAUGGH! Talk about revisionism! Lousy scholarship and bad costumes.
In other words, they are doing history in exactly the same way as most
historical dramas do it, alas.
I just love it when these movie people think they're being so
"revolutionary" when in actuality they're doing the same tired old
schtick on history ("contemporary takes") as hundreds of directors and
producers before them.
Now, that can work in a movie that doesn't take itself seriously
("Shakespeare in Love", and to some extent, "A Knight's Tale,") but
rarely in a movie that claims to be at all historically accurate (which
most of these films will make some pretense of being.)
Those costumes are hideous. What's with the pseudo-Cranach puff and
slash bits? The French hood with no hood (a French headband?)? Those
awful fabrics? I saw better historical costume in the 50's and 60's!
Susan
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