Having grown up in a an area (North Hollywood/Studio City/Burbank, CA) with at the very least 3, or was it 5 Motion Picture/T.V. Production Studios.
Movies/T.V. Movies/T.V. Series are not too Historically Accurate as they are made with
TWO GOALS in mind. Getting people to watch, and making money. Big box office hits are seen multi times by the same movie goers who keeps paying, and coming back to see the same movie over and over again.
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The Movie/T.V. Movie/Series Production Business is a business that is in business to make money. If Historical Accuracy comes in to play it is only because money was spent on Technical Advisers. But the Technical Advisers give advice that many time is not taken by film makers because History like many things is boring. Or too costly to recreate. Plus we must not bore the paying audience.
I grew up on Disney, with Davy Crocket, Daniel Boone, and personally never own a Coon Skin Cap as we were to poor to afforded me that luxury item.
But because of the success of Davy Crocket, & Daniel Boone most every kid in America had a Coon Skin Cap, Coon Skin Tailed Cap, or Play Flintlock Rifle.
I personally watch movies, and television for entertainment, and not a history lesson. Or lessons in anything as most of what is on T.V. be it Cop Shows, Cowboy & Indians, or a War movies are not historically accurate, or consumed period correct or appropriate.
Jack Webb did some movies, and T.V. Series but even his Show Adam 12 (about the LAPD) was flawed, as most of it was shot in Burbank CA (Not in the City of L.A.), and Malloy, & Reed never spend hours on camera writing reports to justify what they did, or the time spent, after each major call when the captured or the bad guy, or. Just like REAL COP do. :winking:
I will say it again most Movies/T.V. Programs/T.V. Series are not too Historically Accurate as they are made with
TWO GOALS in mind. Getting people to watch, and making money.
History Channel and PBS work hard to show History the way it really was. Not the way Hollywood makes it to be.
Like I said I watch movie for entertainment. When I want to study history it off to the local library.
I personally would love to travel back to the period of history when the French & Indian War was going on. I would like to be one of the Indians living in the Pennsylvania Ohio Region as see how it really was. That would be an interesting experience. Than I would like to return to the present and she how accurately the History Historians got it right or wrong............... :m2c: