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As a historian, how important do you think it is that historical films should be accurate?
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I'm not sure quite how keen I am on accuracy above everything else.
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The most important thing, if I was going to make a historical movie, I'd really want to get people interested.
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And I think that film and television programme makers
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can be a bit sort of nerdish about accuracy.
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I remember a friend of mine once told me
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that he'd acted as an advisor for some Roman film
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and the crew were always ringing up when they were on location
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saying things like,
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now, what kind of dog should we have?
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If we're going to have a dog in the film,
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should it be an Alsatian or a Dachshund or whatever?
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And to start with, he said he'd go to the library and he'd kind of look up and he'd find a breed.
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And eventually, after question after question, he'd think, look, these guys are getting the whole of Roman history in the big picture utterly wrong.
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And yet there they are worrying about the damn dogs.
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Can you think of any historical films that you've really enjoyed?
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I absolutely loved Gladiator.
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Never mind its horribly schmaltzy plot
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I thought in all kinds of ways
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It was just a wonderful, brilliant
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And I don't know if it was accurate
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But a justifiable recreation of ancient Rome
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The beginning scenes of Gladiator
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Which show Roman combat
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just, in a sense, punctured the kind of slightly sanitised version
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of legionaries standing with all their shields facing the enemy,
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all looking ever so kind of neat and tidy.
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I mean, it was messy and it was bloody and it was horrible
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and it was such a different kind of image of Roman combat
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that I remember we set it in Cambridge as an exam question.
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You know, how would how would students judge that kind of representation of Roman warfare?
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It's very interesting that there seem to be more and more historical films recently and many have won Oscars.
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Is that because history has all the best stories?
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Yes, there's no such good story as a true story.
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And that's what history's got going for it.
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you know, actually, you know, non-fiction in a kind of way
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is always a better yarn than fiction is.
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And I think it's, you know, I feel very pleased because,
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and I think, you know, for one thing, it gets some of the best stories
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from history into the popular, into popular attention,
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popular consciousness.
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But I think also, I mean, it shows that you don't always have to be deadly serious about history.
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I mean, history, like classics, is often treated as something which is good for you, but isn't actually going to be much fun.
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You know, you'll be improved by knowing about it, but it probably will be a bit tedious in the process.
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And I think that showing that history can be larky,
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it can be funny, it can be surprising,
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it can be something that you can sit down
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and have a good two and a half hours at the cinema enjoying
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is really all to the good.
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- 22 de octubre de 2026 - 18:11
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