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Surely you have to have seen an historical film which just wasn't quite right….perhaps they're seen using a gun in a setting when it wasn't actually invented for another ten years in the future, or perhaps a heroic figure espouses a philosophical belief or way of life that would have likely gotten him killed during that time period. Whatever the case – what are some of the inaccuracies that you've seen in history films?
As much as I love the movie, Tombstone, there are a few inaccuracies. Doc Holliday didn't die in a sanitarium, he died in a hotel. Also Wyatt didn't visit Doc when he was dying, He didn't even no Doc had died until 8 years after the fact.? A lot more bullets flew in the movie version of the shootout then in real life. In the movie I think it was about 51 in about 2 minutes, in real life it was about 30 in 30 seconds. There are others, but nothing too major, Hollywood always takes liberties. And one thing a person needs to understand is when he goes to see these movies don't walk away thinking thats exactly the way it happend.
Here's an interesting thread at imdb.com which points out some of the histoical inaccuracies of The Illusionist. It's at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/board/nest/53423377?d=53423377#53423377
Heres one, I watched a special on the Kennedy Assassanation on the history channel last night and they had a segment on all the fabrications in Oliver Stones JFK. One was Oswald was a horrible shot and there was no way he could have made that shot from where he was in only three seconds. Actually the 3 shots came in 8.5 seconds and he was a sniper in the Marine corp with almost a 100% accuracy in his tests.
I think I was watching the same program on the Kennedy assassination that you were. I didn't catch the part you are talking about, though. I saw the JFK movie a while back and from what I recall, Stone has his theory and he was trying to connect the dots in the film.
