Discussion»Questions»Television and Movies» Do you find silly/stupid mistakes on TV shows or movies? Can you name a couple? That doesn't include their existence.
The new version of the "Magnum P.I." TV series showed a promo wherein a character wearing US Marine Corps dress blues has a full beard, contrary to grooming standards. As soon as I saw that commercial, I decided to boycott the show entirely. Some things you just don't mess with.
For years, Hollywood has portrayed criminal court hearings so inaccurately that they're more like Shakespearean soliloquies than the real thing. In real life, the minute a prosecutor or defense attorney begins making speeches or testifying during direct examination or cross examination, the judge would shut it down so quickly that headache would spin. ~
Most of it was filmed in Ireland, and the parts that were filmed in Scotland are locations in the highlands. William Wallace was a lowlander.
He was raised in somewhat nobility. Stone huts would be inaccurate. He most likely would have lived in a castle.
Highland Scot's began wearing tartan kilts in the seventeen-hundreds, but William and his clansmen, who are lowlanders, are wearing them in the movie, five-hundred years before they were invented. The real William Wallace was a knight, and medieval chainmail would have likely been used during battle.
The blue and white face-paint is total BS. That became the Scottish flag in the fifteen-hundreds.
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