Since it’s a cartoon it’s fine. We go in expecting it to have cartoon logic and cartoon worldbuilding. The fill-pages at front and back have little cartoons of them using magic potion, it’s pretty obvious that it’s fiction.
So yes, asterix apboelox and dogmatix / Goacinny and Uderzo are sweet!
Maybe you can argue the same is true for that guys film, Gladiator, idk. Ithink i always go into pre-2020s historical films expecting gross inaccuracies, compensated for with fun viewing.
Ridley Scott tends to play very loose with history, and generally uses history more as a backdrop for the story he wants to tell. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
In either case, the adoration for the Classical period in Asterix and Obelix is far superior!
And as I recall, he’s oddly defensive about it, throwing out “Were you there?” like it’s some sort of mic drop, but decades of archaeology, educated inference, textual analysis of multiple sources, and other peer-reviewed research mean nothing.
Sure, Ridley, Marcus Aurelius really wanted to return to the Republic and control by the Senate, and that was because he was a secret populare.
Generally no they’re not, but i picked 2020 (probably '15 is better) because there has been more interest in making things that are “historically accurate” and don’t dress events up in hollywood spectacle. But it still happens for about 50% of productions.
Generally no they’re not, but i picked 2020 (probably '15 is better) because since then there has been more interest in making things that are “historically accurate” and don’t dress events up in hollywood spectacle. But it still happens for about 50% of productions.
Since it’s a cartoon it’s fine. We go in expecting it to have cartoon logic and cartoon worldbuilding. The fill-pages at front and back have little cartoons of them using magic potion, it’s pretty obvious that it’s fiction.
So yes, asterix apboelox and dogmatix / Goacinny and Uderzo are sweet!
Maybe you can argue the same is true for
that guys film,Gladiator, idk. Ithink i always go into pre-2020s historical films expecting gross inaccuracies, compensated for with fun viewing.I just really really love asterix comix.
Ridley Scott tends to play very loose with history, and generally uses history more as a backdrop for the story he wants to tell. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
In either case, the adoration for the Classical period in Asterix and Obelix is far superior!
And as I recall, he’s oddly defensive about it, throwing out “Were you there?” like it’s some sort of mic drop, but decades of archaeology, educated inference, textual analysis of multiple sources, and other peer-reviewed research mean nothing.
Sure, Ridley, Marcus Aurelius really wanted to return to the Republic and control by the Senate, and that was because he was a secret populare.
Do you think post-2020 movies are more accurate or why do you make this distinction?
Generally no they’re not, but i picked 2020 (probably '15 is better) because there has been more interest in making things that are “historically accurate” and don’t dress events up in hollywood spectacle. But it still happens for about 50% of productions.
Generally no they’re not, but i picked 2020 (probably '15 is better) because since then there has been more interest in making things that are “historically accurate” and don’t dress events up in hollywood spectacle. But it still happens for about 50% of productions.