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plant-pilot · 23-07-2006, 10:16 AM

You have to remeber that when all is said and done they are films and for the entertainment of the masses, before CGI if you didn't have a real 'Tiger' then you had to either make do with something as similar as you could find, or shoot the film with some very clever camera angles in order to get as little of the actual tanks in shot as you could get away with. It can work, but it doesn#t make for a gret film. You are never going to get 100% accuracy without lots of CGI or even animating the whole film.

What gets me is the blatant departures from the historical truth in order to make the film suitable for the 'american' audience when it is supposed to be 'based' on 'a true story' or 'actual events'.

23-07-2006, 10:16 AM	#17 (permalink)
plant-pilot Very Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,014	Re: The most historically incorrect movies/books. You have to remeber that when all is said and done they are films and for the entertainment of the masses, before CGI if you didn't have a real 'Tiger' then you had to either make do with something as similar as you could find, or shoot the film with some very clever camera angles in order to get as little of the actual tanks in shot as you could get away with. It can work, but it doesn#t make for a gret film. You are never going to get 100% accuracy without lots of CGI or even animating the whole film. What gets me is the blatant departures from the historical truth in order to make the film suitable for the 'american' audience when it is supposed to be 'based' on 'a true story' or 'actual events'.