Article on the L. IX Hispana (Factual????)

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Well, we all know that there are at least two people here on RAT who have absolutely no love for each other and waste little time and much space in expressing this. I read the comment too and I must say that I was surprised. Whether or not it is true though, I would never take any such comment from one half of a constantly bickering duo against the other (whether here on RAT or anywhere else) without quite a large pinch of salt.

Anyway that was OT

Back on topic, I so often wish I could take a sythe to these filmic abominations, but on a more (perhaps vainly) hopeful front I have often wondered whether it might be possible to institute some sort of informed panel to give supposedly historical films an accuracy rating, with five stars being photographically accurate, four being a damn good effort and so on, going down to one star, which might be the recent 'King Arthur' film or almost anything made in Italy. Such a rating would not affect the excitement of a film or the quality of the writing but at least it might show those who cared to take any notice either that not everything they see in films is true or that in some cases we really do know what things were like. Does anyone know any members of BAFTA or the 'Academy'?:roll:

On a slightly more realistic level, I wonder if letter writing campaigns to editors every time such lazy journalism is spotted might have any influence.


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