What I don’t like about most historical films and tv shows is that the actors almost always have perfect teeth. It really takes me out of the times being presented if everyone has perfect straight pearly whites, when they probably didn’t even brush everyday or have fluoride.
‘Realistic’ to most people seems to mean a filter that removes color and people being miserable
That’s the communism filter
Communism is grey, because of the cold winter. Feudalism is brown because of the open sewers and bubonic plague. Capitalism is technicolor because it’s good. Mexico is yellow because Steven Soderbergh used color to define each of the 3 narratives of Traffic (2000) so audiences could follow the movie more easily. Socialism with Chinese characteristics is fuzzy and muted because of the smog and human rights abuses.
Read a filmography book.
I can’t remember where I saw it but I read somewhere that the Witcher 3 devs had someone on staff who was a botanist and so they took special care in designing the meadows and wooded areas. I remember reading the vegetation was designed to specifically include wildflowers that would have been widespread in medieval Slavic regions of Europe. I thought that was neat. I don’t often see period pieces acknowledge that vegetation also changes over time.
The opening scene in Gladiator is historically inaccurate because it’s a monoculture forest. Forests in Germania circa 180 AD were always polycultural because mass regrowth efforts for Europe’s depleted forests didn’t begin until the Middle Ages going into the Age of Sail. When that happened is when they planted the same species to create what we see in the film.
Whoa ok this makes a lot of sense because I loved collecting plants in that and I credit it with getting me into botany.
That scene is so much better as an adult. When I was a kid I didn’t adequately appreciate the appeal in the peasant explaining to King Arthur that strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is a terrible basis for a system of governance.
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I get like this with Victorian era period pieces most often, but yeah, glaring costuming inaccuracies in any “historical” work drive me utterly bonkers! There’s honest mistakes, sure, but intentional inaccuracy or plain old lack of effort/proper allocation of budget really grinds my gears. Hire people who know their stuff and (in TV/film) give the costume department the resources they need. And for god’s sake, stop using historical ladies’ underwear as a metaphor for oppression of women, it’s a lame overdone trope.
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How do children’s birthday parties have more authentic dress than expensive movies and chuddy “realistic” videogames?
Put hennins and escoffions in your work cowards.Sorry pal, but my chuddy video game does have big booba on the wenches, that work?
Even as a gay man I can appreciate that people like boobas on wenches. I don’t even mind. I don’t even think most women mind.
But you gotta put in some ridiculous cod pieces too.But more importantly i want hennins.
Does wearing two hennins in front, Madonna style, count?
You’re thinking of an escoffion, and an escoffion counts.
Edit: Or you’re thinking of a bisected/divided hennin which also obviously counts.
I looked up hennins and escoffions; you meant evil stepmother headwear!
That is a sick hat
Black Adder had some good codpieces. also Rowan Atkinson made waaaaaaay too much money and I imagine it gave him horrible politics
Real artists pay much more attention to headwear of commoners instead of nobles.
Witch Hat Atelier is not historical but it is replete with unisex hennins, though the non-mages are still often bare-headed
Proving my point. The less “realistic” the more likely you are to see medieval headwear
Ah. I see what you mean!
counterpoint: most headwear looks really dumb and audiences won’t take a character seriously if they have shit on their head
This is the logic for so much costuming, but people get on board with all sorts of silly looking shit irl and in futuristic movies. I think it’s often just an excuse because ‘historical’ film has a pretentious air about it, and the filmmakers are scared of not being taken seriously by their peers more than the audience will actually be taken out by a Tudor cap on a woman
