Toque a Deguello

Interesting. This also highlights the danger of movies touching historical themes. The main point of movies is to entertain and transmit emotion, not accurate information. If there is a way to improve a story, by changing details or bringing in new music which the director likes more, it is done.

Sure, many directors get a few historical consultants to try to get things right. However, if there is a decision between accuracy and movie convention, movie convention wins.

Nothing highlights this more than having university professors parse parts of movies to their students. I had one who showed examples of roman formations from movies, pointing out accurate details and then pointing out the tons of inaccurate ones.

I wonder if US Civil War movies are now more accurate because the significant number of the viewers are going to be a bunch of people who pursue avocational research on the topic.