08-01-2003, 02:06 PM
"Why wouldn't want the public see authentic stuff?"<br>
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They don't want to see it, IF it has a look that doesn't fit to our modern taste (that's why the armor in Gladiator looked so dark - it fits better to the design of other action movies like Terminator, Matrix, Alien, etc. than the real stuff). The reconstructed armor above is surely nothing, an average audience would like to see in the cinema. Besides that, they are already used to some errors, because Hollywood has created them (like rowers in Roman warships with chains at their feet, pseudo-Imperial helmets from the Rome's beginning to its end, etc.) So authentic elements would maybe even confuse the audience, so that authentic late-Roman equipment would be even considered as "false", because the movie-goers aren't used to it. <p></p><i></i>
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They don't want to see it, IF it has a look that doesn't fit to our modern taste (that's why the armor in Gladiator looked so dark - it fits better to the design of other action movies like Terminator, Matrix, Alien, etc. than the real stuff). The reconstructed armor above is surely nothing, an average audience would like to see in the cinema. Besides that, they are already used to some errors, because Hollywood has created them (like rowers in Roman warships with chains at their feet, pseudo-Imperial helmets from the Rome's beginning to its end, etc.) So authentic elements would maybe even confuse the audience, so that authentic late-Roman equipment would be even considered as "false", because the movie-goers aren't used to it. <p></p><i></i>
