...do your authors give to explain the historical inaccuracies in the films? It’s hard to sometime to see the truth for what it is. When I was growing up my grandma used to say, “There’s HER STORY, HIS STORY AND THE TRUTH!” Inaccuracies in history are usually originated from story tellers (move producers or writers) placing their personal view to a story. In the story Black Robe, the authors wrote the movie from the journal of the missionary Father Jesuit Laforque. To keep the adventurous feel of the film there were a couple of inaccuracies. According to Carnes, M., & Garraty, J. (2008). Father Laforque wrote down a conversation between himself and Chief Algonquin. Later on Father Laforque took this documented conversation to a second European whom was not present and asked him to read the document aloud; Europeans by contrast were illiterate during this timeframe (Carnes & Garraty, p. 46, 2008). In the mystery/suspense film, “The Crucible”, another example of an inaccuracy was Indians tribes journeying 1500 miles in the midst of winter only to set up camps to habituate until spring. The “Dilate” according to Carnes, M., & Garraty, J. (2008) was to keep the audience interested in the story line by focusing in on the girls behavior (Carnes & Garraty, p. 76, 2008). . In the “Patriot” Benjamin Martin wasn’t a real person, but in leaders such as Francis Marion similarity can be found, which could also provide some inaccuracies. Historians criticized much of what...
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...elements of the film were accurate such as guerilla war fare on both sides such as the British slaughtering villages and the Americans killing officers first in the battle. There are also inaccuracies that historians have found such as the character Benjamin Martin and the battle of Cowpens which Cornwallis was not present. Many historians criticized the movie for these inaccuracies to the point where it was even compared the Godzilla to biology. B. In your view, do the historical inaccuracies harm or help our understanding of past events and historical figures? Explain I think in this particular movie it does harm the understanding because the revolutionary war was the birth of our nation, and for the movie to have incorrect information takes away the realization of the war. We as Americans are proud of our for fathers fight for our nations freedom, so for someone who loves history might have a problem with the movie, but if you don’t really want to take the time to research movies like this are good to get the jest of history. C. In your view, do the historical inaccuracies harm or help our understanding of the present (people or groups)? That is to say, is the director using historical events and people to make a point about America and Americans today? Explain. For this particular movie I think the director did a good job as representing Americans coming together against an enemy. It’s like when 911 happened, our whole country put our differences aside and stood together...
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...Historical Accuracies and Inaccuracies of Saving Private Ryan By Foday Bangura World Civilization Mrs. Beavers 2 April 2015 World War II is probably considered one of the most violent and horrific wars in modern history. There have been many reenactments of this historical moment in Hollywood. One movie that portrayed events significantly during World War II is Saving Private Ryan by Steven Spielberg. Even though Saving Private Ryan is critically acclaimed for its realistic battle scenes and won multiple academy awards for its cinematic display and accuracy of events, there are still many inaccuracies throughout the movie as well. This film can be considered one of the greatest war movies of all time, but even some of the greatest reenactments can be inaccurate at times relating to history. The movie is about a group of troops on a mission to find another soldier in the name of Ryan so they can bring him back home to his mother. The reason they had to bring him back is because he had three older brothers already in war, but unfortunately were killed during battle. This resulted in the effort to try to find Ryan to bring him back home to his mother because he was the youngest, and to avoid all brothers being killed. During this journey to retrieve Ryan many troops were killed along the way, but at the end the troops finally found Ryan and brought him back home. During the journey, the movie reenacts historical moments such D-day. For example, the beginning...
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...Amazing Movie With few Flaws Alleghany Uprising is an old black and white film directed by William A. Seiter that follows an adventurer James Smith, played by John Wayne, and his team of men as they try to stop the trade of illegal goods. While the movie was entertaining, it had some historical inaccuracies. The movie begins with adventurer James Smith, played by John Wayne, and his team of men as Indians encounter them in the woods. After the defeating the natives, the team discovers that the Indians obtained the weapons men of their town in Pennsylvania. British officials then make the trade of weapons with Indians illegal. Nevertheless, Ralph Callender continues to trade rum and rifles with the Indians. In an effort to stop the trade, Smith, his men, and Janie McDougall, the local barmaid, attack the wagons and the fort holding the illegal trade goods. Before leaving the town to attack the fort, the men locked Janie McDougall up in fear that she may try to tag along. They succeeded in attacking...
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...no exception. The Mummy is an amazing movie. It has action, comedy, and decent special effects too. Overall, I found the movie very entertaining and enjoyable and I loved almost every minute of it. Although the movie was very entertaining, l did find some historical inaccuracies in it. I believe the movie could have been made much better if some of these inaccuracies were fixed. This review will deal with historical inaccuracies that focus on the characters of the movie, the values and beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, the geographical locations and architectures shown in the movie. The Mummy tells the story about a priest named Imhotep, who had an affair with the Pharaoh’s mistress and killed the Pharaoh, and as punishment for his deeds he was mummified alive and cursed for all eternity in Hamunaptra, the city of the dead. Thousands of years pass, and in the 1920’s a soldier of the French Foreign Legion named Rick O’Connell meets a librarian and aspiring Egyptologist named Evelyn, and joins her and her brother on a quest to find Hamunaptra, a lost Ancient Egyptian city which is said to have numerous amounts of hidden treasure. Instead of finding treasure though, they accidently reawaken the mummy of Imhotep, who if brought back to life, will “arise a walking disease”, unleash the ten plagues of Egypt, become invincible, and cause mass destruction. First, I will highlight the historical inaccuracies of the characters shown in this movie. The main villain in The Mummy is Imhotep...
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...This battle took place in South Carolina on August 16th, 1780. This battle in the movie is from the perspective of Gabrielle, Benjamin's son. Just before the scene, Gabrielle speaks of how he wishes to join the war again after being injured. There are factual inaccuracies and accuracies of this scene. But overall, I did find this scene to be accurate. The result in the movie is that the British simply trounced the continental army in this battle. The Americans were defeated easily in this scene. Horatio Gates, the Continental Army General during the battle, was forced to retreat. This was depicted clearly in the movie. A primary source explains the defeat that took place that day: a letter from Francis Marion to Peter Horry on August 27th, 1780. The letter...
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...Rachel Banes Dr. Mary Sanders HIST 1103-503 10 October 2014 The Patriot Movie Review The Patriot was an American Revolution epic that was portrayed from the perspective of an implacable family. While the movie provided entertainment, there were many historical events that were illustrated in this film such as, the depiction of militias, the implications of battles, and insight to life during war. Due to the bias nature of the film and a few historical inaccuracies, the nationalism in this movie becomes overwhelming. This film was set in the 1770’s in early South Carolina. Benjamin Martian, an ex French and Indian war icon, is the father of seven children who rejected a proposal to go to battle and be apart of the Continental Army. While trying to avoid any involvement in the battle, the war comes close to home and the leading antagonist Colonel Tavington killed Thomas, his 15-year-old son. Martin began seeking revenge by creating a militia that consisted of peasants and farmers. The militia had an objective to keep General Cornwallis in South Carolina. Their efforts were successful through their strategic planning by killing off his men and cutting him off from supplies. Although they succeeded in the surrender of Cornwallis, Gabriel, Martins son, also became a victim of Tavington and was killed. Gabriel’s death evoked one last fight between Martin and Tavington. Martin had the victory over him, which lead to Tavington’s death and helped drive the Continental Army to...
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...Valkyrie Film is often used as a medium to portray important historical events that the common viewer can then experience themselves. The film Vlakyrie portray the events of WW2. Specifically it covers the 20 July plot and Operation Valkyrie. The 20 July plot was the plan to assassinate Adolf Hitler inside his Wolf’s Lair in Rastenburg, East Prussia and Operation Valkyire was originally a plan to continue the government after an emergency but was changed so that the conspirators would be able to take control of Germany after the assignation of Hitler. The plan was instigated by Colonel Claus von Stauffenburg (Played by Tom Cruise) who was recruited by conspirators to come up with the plan. The film also has many themes and uses a few literary elements. This movie is a pretty realistic portrayal of the actual event and has a pretty good story. The film Valkyrie takes place during World War 2. The film covers the events of the July 20 plot. The main character of the story is Colonel Claus von Stauffenburg. The story follows him from the beginning of the story when he gets recruited to the cause. He then meets other committee members such as Dr. Goerdeler, and Witzleben. There Stauffenburg comes up with assignation plan. Their first attempt at the plan fails but they get another attempt ot try again. The second time they try the bomb is placed and the plan looked like it worked with the bomb exploding in the meeting room with Hitler. They then mobilize the Reserve Army and attempt...
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...However, there were a few major mistakes made in the movie. One of the biggest inaccuracies in the movie was that two Connecticut congressman voted against the thirteenth amendment. However, all four Connecticut congressmen actually supported the thirteenth amendment. It is also said that the last five minutes of the movie were probably the most historically inaccurate of the whole film. The film showed Lincoln lying in bed in a nightgown. In reality he was laid in bed nude while the doctors looked over his body and then he was covered with a blanket. He also would have been laid diagonally across the bed because a 6’ 4” man was too tall to lay in the bed the regular lengthwise direction. Another of the other major inaccuracies was that Lincoln’s image was on currency. History shows us that the Union did not print his image on any currency until after he had died. Lincoln’s face appeared on the hundred dollar bill in 1869. Some of the other historical inaccuracies centered on Mary Todd-Lincoln. The film shows that she attended meetings of the U.S. House of Representatives. It would have been very unusual for the First Lady to watch any of the house proceedings. Mrs. Lincoln also never would have publicly criticized Thaddeus Stevens. Even though she did not agree with Mr. Stevens’ inquiries about her spending habits she would never have verbally assaulted him at the White House as depicted in the movie. At that time, women were not allowed publicly...
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...create a Spanish colony there. While there are some historical inaccuracies as well as fictional situations in the movie, it is still useful for providing an important historical summary of Columbus’ voyage in a dramatic manner that draws in viewers. In the film, Columbus believes that sailing west will provide a new route to the “earthly paradise of China” (1492: Conquest of Paradise). His request for funding is denied by the Spanish council, but after a rich investor agrees to help him, Queen Isabella I approves the trip. Lying about the length of the trip to his crew, Columbus sets sail for “honor, gold and the greater glory of God” (1492: Conquest of...
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...The movie Amistad was an incredible and powerful work of film. The historical events the film depicted were not a story I was familiar with, and although the movie was at times violent and even brutal, I believe it truthfully portrayed an adaptation of what actually happened and what captured Africans were subjected to against their will. For me, one of the most significant parts of this film in the present day was the number of extremely well-known actors and who took part in the production of the piece directed by none other than Stephen Spielberg. Historical non-fiction is not a common topic in the movie industry, especially not those that expose events that depict America in a less-than-perfect light. I thought it was greatly significant that so many celebrities would assemble to create this film that could stir up controversy in its portrayal of actual events, revealing the dehumanizing treatment of Africans during the time of the Slave Trade. Amistad is a film that undeniably makes an impact on whoever watches it, and I found it impressive that so many public figures would come together to work and make that statement unashamedly, not to mention the movie’s favorable box office results. The events of history the film reveals are brought to attention in the contemporary world, and even with its few inaccuracies, the movie educates its viewers, bringing history into the present day in a medium to which the public can easily relate. I find this important because often it seems...
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...civilization used hieroglyphics to keep important historical records, made many advancements in mathematics, and had a highly accurate astronomy system. Throughout their years of existence, the Mayans proved to be one of the most advanced civilizations ever recorded. Their hieroglyphic writing skills have been documented to be some of the most sophisticated in all of ancient The Mayans had an amazing and accurate calendar and a complex hieroglyphic writing .The Mayans also had an amazing understanding of mathematics and the workings of the universe. Many historians and researchers to compare the Mayan civilization to those great civilizations like Egypt and Greece and Rome. In addition the Mayans have been recognized by their advanced calendar, astronomy, architecture, arts, and mathematics. The Mayans was a highly advanced civilization instead Mel Gibson chose to highlight human sacrifices and extreme violence and demonstrated a negative view about the Mayans. In the movie apocalypto Mel Gibson is misrepresenting the Mayan culture and demonstrates many inaccurate historical facts about the Mayans civilization. Mel Gibson demonstrates a civilization engaged in extreme sacrificial ceremonies a civilization seen as a bloodthirsty and extremely violent. My research is set during the time period of the Classical period. The Movie Apocalypto drama unfolds in the last days of the Mayan civilization in Central America Mel Gibson starts the movie with the arrival of the Spanish. Apocaltpyto...
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...Critical Essay This film takes place in the south in 1937 during The Great Depression. The Great Depression was a time period during the 1930s in which there was a severe worldwide economic depression (history.com). This happened after the stock market crash of 1929. They encounter many historical markers of the culture of the time. Some examples are the radio, bank robbers, and a KKK meeting. This film is loosely based on Homer’s Odyssey (imdb.com). Some parts of the film are historically accurate. Characters that actually existed were George “Baby Face” Nelson, Pappy O’Daniel and Tommy Johnson (google.com). In the film George Nelson is a bank robber that sometimes called “Baby Face”. There were actually a lot of bank robbers during this...
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...Dances with Wolves Dances with wolves is a movie based upon John J. Dunbar’s experience going back to an old fort and along the way he met indians and learned their ways of living. Also he met a white women that was taken in by the indians and John married her. John created a strong relationship with the indians. He taught them his language and they taught him theirs. As for the name of the film, the indians gave John the name dances with the wolves. This was brought up from a wolf following John around during the movie and was loyal to him. John lived with the indians in their forts for many months. John went back to his fort and when he got there he saw that American soldiers had set up there and attacked John when he arrived. They interrogated him and were going to put him to death. Just in time the indians saved John and he safely got home. John and his wife left and as the movie was ending they closed with the American soldiers finding the indian troops and were said to have destroyed all their forts and wiped out the indian population. This movie focused on seeing indians from a different perspective and not just savages. Though this movie was one of the top movies on the board when it first came out, the historical facts aren’t very accurate. To start off the American soldiers did murder lots of indians but they didn’t completely wipe out their population, there are still indians alive today. Also when John found the women she just became widowed and it is a ritual...
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...to the 1998 Metro Manila Film Festival. It is considered as one of the biggest budgeted films in the Philippine movie history with a record of P80-million. This film was dubbed as the most spectacular and “controversial” Philippine film epic because of its record-breaking 80-million budget. The film won several prestigious awards and has also premiered at several well-known film festivals around the world including the Berlin International Film Festival in 1998 and has also won as the 2nd runner-up in the Audience Award of the Toronto Filmfest. The problem with Jose Rizal if that it concentrates on historical accuracy rather than artistic contribution. The film, as mentioned, is basically a history book adapted to film. My problem with this Rizal film is that the depth of this film’s Rizal is as much as the depth of Rizal you’d get from a high schooler’s Filipino textbook. However, there arealso negative comments that I must say about the movie. The plot was full of twists and turns. It is confusing to watch because of too many flashbacks and you couldn’t guess whether it is still in flashback or not. Also, some scenes are brutal, and some are not suitable for young kids such as the bed scene wherein the Spanish priest with the use of his power tried to rape a Filipino woman. Compare that to Tikoy Aguiluz’s Rizal sa Dapitan, which has its own historical inaccuracies, but the Rizals there are definitely deeper, probably less a hero, but more a human. Nonetheless, it is a splendid...
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