Forgive my cynicism.

But I think film is a much more lightweight artform than the symphony, or the novel, or the poem.


Take that Bodyline film, where all the English cricketers were ugly as sin, and the Australian batsman (who in real life had a face like a pissed off bulldog) looked like a filmstar (and a very good looking one too!)

Mentally, you prepare yourself for all the IRA men looking like languid poet/philosophers and all the Brits and prison officers having bad breath, shit personalities, sadistic meaness and being richly deserving of their summary executions.

Mind you, we had it coming after depicting Germans in such a bad way in the WW2 movies.

Achtung!