Historical Films

Nowadays a lot of people get their historical information through films and television programmes, and yet most of them never stop to question the historical accuracy of whatever it is they are watching. Movies like Troy were done to be blockbuster movies and as such have various inaccuracies as the producers and directors no doubt thought that to make the movie completely accurate would be to limit its appeal to the wider audience. And yes I know that there are very few records pertaining to the siege of Troy, one of the best records being Homer's Iliad, and so the film makers can have a bit of leeway in how they tell the story. The problem with historical inaccuracies in popular entertainment is that people take it as absolute fact and don't question it, thinking that the people involved in making the film would not dare to put something in that wasn't absolute fact. Ha, the fact is that the movie companies are there to make money, nothing more and they will do anything to create the big bucks at the box office, at the expense of the historical accuracy of the film. But that is enough of a rant for now and I will bid you goodbye