Who works makes mistakes, this also applies to movie industry from which every year tens of thousands of movie creations are released. Some of them represent works of art, while most aren’t even worth mentioning. The movie should relax us and teach us something. However it doesn’t perform that role if main facts and event are falsely portrayed.
Out of ignorance or inattention, some movies do not present true historical information, which questions the quality and truthfulness of the work.
People have many hobbies, stamp collecting, playing PLAYSTATION, playing the flute, they practice sport and similar. But, there are hobbies such as “looking for mistakes in movies”. Some go so far that they spend all their time in search for those mistakes and their publication. In this attachment you can look at 10 biggest historical and factual mistakes that appeared in world movies.
10BREAVEST HEART
Mel Gibson’s “Brave heart” sees the Scots wear tartan kilts. In fact they wore saffron–colored tunics to war kilts weren’t introduced another 300 years.
09POCAHONTAS 1995
Pocahontas didn’t have a romance with British settler John Smith as she was 11 years old. She was later kidnapped converted to Christianity and married a tobacco exporter.
08BATTLE OF THE BULGE
Filmmakers substituted wintry Belgium for a temperature Spain and used modern tanks. President Eisenhower gave a press conference criticizing the film.
07BONNIE AND CLYDE 1967
Ranger Frank Hamer set up the ambush and killing of the OUTLAW DUO. In the film he is captured and humiliated, with his widow sued for defamation eventually getting an out-of-court settlement.
06BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ 1962
People called for Robert Stroud’s release due to the film’s touching portrayal. It didn’t mention he stabbed a fellow inmate to death.
05A BEAUTIFUL MIND 2001
John Nash’s hallucinations were purely auditory, rather than visual. Also, the film omitted the fact that he had a neglected son and his dramatic Nobel speech never happened.
04U-571 2000
Prime Minister Tony Blair called the film “an affront” to British sailors. U-571 shows the U.S. rather than British Navy capture the Enigma code machine in WW2.
03THE SOCIAL NETWORK 2010
In the film Mark Zuckenberg is given the motivation to start FACEBOOK when he is dumped over dinner. In reality, he was dating his now-wife before the advent of the site.
02THE PATRIOT 2010
This war of Independence film sees the British burn a church down with U.S. civilians inside. Historically this only happened when Nazis torched a French church full of women and children.
01THE BIRTH OF THE NATION 1915
This epic showed African-Americans as sexually aggressive and unintelligent. Its depiction of the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force resulted in it being used as a recruiting tool.
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