07-09-2004, 08:45 AM
The safety of actors is obviously puts pressure on the physical details of the film (action scenes) and the visual details are important because films are a visual art and close ups are unforgiving. But as long as the public knows nothing of history and the history of costumes, why should a film maker, producer, director, art director go thru all the extra effort to make accurate costuming?<br>
Is the main purpose of movie makers to educate?Shouldn't education start much earlier elsewhere, schools for instance?<br>
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For exmaple: the recent Brad Pitt TROY flick annoyed many in Italy because many have READ the Illiad. But we must admit that in a place and time where no one reads the Illiad anymore, there will be no one to complain and, argueably nothing to complain about. <p></p><i></i>
Is the main purpose of movie makers to educate?Shouldn't education start much earlier elsewhere, schools for instance?<br>
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For exmaple: the recent Brad Pitt TROY flick annoyed many in Italy because many have READ the Illiad. But we must admit that in a place and time where no one reads the Illiad anymore, there will be no one to complain and, argueably nothing to complain about. <p></p><i></i>
Jeffery Wyss
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."
"Si vos es non secui of solutio tunc vos es secui of preciptate."