Movie Centurion

[Narukami]

For similar chase movies in a historical setting try 'The Naked Prey' with Cornel Wilde and more recently 'Apocalypto'.

Graham.

Indeed, the later Gibson film is a direct (if unacknowledged) remake the earlier Wilde film.

Sometimes directors and writers get tripped up as the attempt to parade their historical erudition.

In Spileberg's WWII opus, Saving Private Ryan, when the Rangers link-up with the paratroopers of the 101st, Ryan makes the comment that the Germans they just ambushed were from the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. It is an interesting historical tidbit, intended (I believe) only to those who really know their WWII history, and yet these are they very people who would also know that it was incorrect.

Why make this mistake?

In a film touted for its historical accuracy such a simple, and pointless mistake baffles.

The writer / director John Sayles said it best: "If historical accuracy were the thing people went to the movies for, historians would be the vice presidents of studios. Every studio would have two or three historians."

We should be so lucky.
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Narukami