Shimrod, there's a vast gulf between "ignorance and stupidity" and "not getting it right". The film makers often know what they're doing. They use factually correct and incorrect; which just depending on what they need for the film they're making.

Can't you hear the Hollywood director/producer saying,"We can't have (something factually correct).Who's going to (want to) watch (whatever)?" e.g. ugly women in 10.000 B.C. (or practically ever)


The following is a citation about film saved by inaccuracy.

Someone is quoted saying "History is lame".
i www.cracked.com/article_15014_11-movies-saved-by-historical-inaccuracy.html - 51k -


btw, Sherlock Holmes never says in print "Elementary, my dear Watson."

I rhink it is the line everyone "knows" is because it's the last line of the first Holmes film, one audiences would have left the cinema remembering.

Inaccurate but potent.



Ivor