Films that straddle across genres
Screwball comedy, mystery, crime thriller, black comedy
Films that straddle across genres
Coming-of-age tale, tragedy, slapstick, sf, fantasy, morality fable, religious satire.
Pass.
Bad History movies:
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
Bad History movies:
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
There are no waterfalls in Jamestown. Pocahontas was a young girl, not a young woman. There was no love story with John Smith. I could go on.
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
The movie makes it sound like rescuing the six Americans from Iran, with Canada’s help, was all masterminded by the CIA; and Canada’s role was helpful, but really, not much. But Jimmy Carter, who ought to know better than anybody, had this to say:
I used Carter’s quote as reported on the film’s Wikipedia page, but he first said it in a CNN interview. Interestingly, the Wikipedia page for the film has a whole section on “Historical Inaccuracies”:
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
Frank Hopkins “true story” of his long-distance horse race across the “Ocean of Fire” from Riyadh to Damascus appears to have been completely fabricated.
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
Described as one of the most historically inaccurate modern films, with a section in its wikipedia article on 7 major inaccuracies:
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
Based on an unreliable narrator’s retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae.
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
So grossly mischaracterized events connected with seizing an enigma machine, Tony Blair ended up calling it ‘an affront’ to British sailors
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
All three women who’s careers are followed did not experience segregation to the extent depicted in the movie. Katherine Johnson stated she was using the “whites only” bathroom for months before someone complained, and continued to use it; Mary Jackson simply asked the school board permission to attend night classes, and it was granted; Dorothy Vaughan was promoted to supervisor in 1948.
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
Most historical documentation agrees that Hitler was not gunned down in a theater.
Bad History movies
(Movies that grossly misrepresent the event historical they are portraying)
This Austrian series of biopics about the Empress Elizabeth of Austria (nicknamed “Sissi”, the wife of the emperor Franz Josef) starring Romy Schneider, is very, very pretty to look at. It also distorts history a lot. In particular, it portrays 1) the relationship between Franz Josef and Elizabeth as a mutually romantic one, whereas in real life, he was madly in love with her, she was more ambivalent toward him and in the end was more a friend to him than a lover; 2) Elizabeth’s mother-in-law as a despotic micromanager. Historical primary sources about the Archduchess Sophie (her letters, diaries) indicate that she was fond of the young Elizabeth. She may have seen to the education of Elizabeth for her role of Empress, and might perhaps have taken too active a role in the upbringing of Elizabeth’s first daughters, but accounts suggest that she was warmer and more caring than the movies portray her, and that it was an aged and neurotic Elizabeth that exaggerated Sophie’s role as evil mother-in-law. Oh, and Franz Josef was NOT clean-shaven. Sorry, 1950s female movie fans. I think he already had a bit of facial hair when he married Elizabeth, and by the time of his coronation as King of Hungary had a great deal of it.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Meg Ryan plays an American (in the process of getting Canadian citizenship). Kevin Kline plays a Frenchman smuggling a Noth American grapevine into France.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Jack and Rose were literally a transatlantic couple.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Andie McDowell and Gerard Depardieu
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
A French girl and an American boy.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Movie star Julia Roberts falls for British nobody Hugh Grant
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Jude, from Liverpool, falls in love with American girl Lucy.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Depressed American high school student winds up falling for a French exchange student.
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
Saoirse Ronan as Irish immigrant Eilis, who falls in love with Brooklynite Tony (Emory Cohen)
Movies about Transatlantic Couples
An American reporter (Gregory Peck) meets a young crown princess on a goodwill tour (Audrey Hepburn cute as a button) in Rome.