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I think that that's clear enough, Jim. Seen that anyone of us knows that most of producers are simply entrepreneurs, even if sometimes they have more fun than other kind of entrepeneurs:

Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren

They can also act as a buffer to some outrageous demands from directors

That has not to be happened in Gladiator, where the Scott's heavy siliconed wife Gianina Facio played a ridicolous Maximus' wife character, or did the Romans surgeons already use silicon for swelling lips?

Ridley Scott and Gianina Facio



Coming back to the topic, as told above I believe that:


a) Making accurate historical movies does not cost more

b) Accuracy has not to be, of course, the only quality of the movie

c) Well done captions are not boring

d) Captions can help a great part of the average public to get better (and immediately) into the story right atmosphere

e) Captions, if true and fair, give a historical "brief" to go on the movie and briefly "legalize" in someway its accuracy

f) In the Internet era where anyone can always more easily check in real time the accuracy of practically everything, so, cheating about historical quality it's really stupid and surely will not pay in the future

g) The "old" producer figure, ignorant but sharky, sly and just able to get money is very probably decreed to disappear in the big movies bussiness, where the aware and really competent producers will have an edge over the others, and that is always more perceived by the public

h) Producers face so many quick changes that just who will understand that only taking care of "any" aspects of the movie and perfectly balancing them, they can get a good to sell product

i) From the "low", a flood of skilled newcomers is filling the screens of tons of movies of any size and quality and soon the technology will allow them to level with the Bigs. Five, ten years? Maybe less and the main problem will be just getting visibility among zillions of movies (historical too), but what is a problem now, could not be so soon...

l) So, is not to care about the quality of the recostructions really worth being continued? Or it's better having that easy shrewdness to take a look here since before writing a roman or greek script or making the whole movie? Avoiding anyway to choose the wrong "experts", of course... :wink:

Valete,