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Posted by JeffreyofNorthumbria (U14022752) on Friday, 11th September 2009
With the recently released children's move, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, it looks as though a new generation of children will grow up thinking that people, sabre tooth tigers, mammoths and dinosaurs were all around at the same time. It reminds me of the 60's when lots of people were influenced by the Flintstones and Dino, the pet dinosaur. My mother-in-law still thinks that people and dinosaurs co-existed !!
Do people on this messageboard think that film makers should be made to be more historically accurate or do they not think it matters. I have to say, as a father of four, my experience is that many teenagers sense of prehistoric history is extremely blurry anyway.
I'd be interested in hearing what people think.
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 11th September 2009
We were also encouraged to believe that the humans who coexisted with dinosaurs in the period around One Million Years BC, despite not yet having evolved speech, had invented the fur bikini and produced a Raquel Welch lookalike called Loana to wear it (names, but no speech, it must have been prehistoric Alabama).
I remember leaving the cinema wanting to be a stop-start animator when I grew up, but I don't ever remember my sense of evolutionary timeline being disrupted.
Was that the one with a 1000 elephants, and Morrie dressed as a Balgrog?
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 11th September 2009
Sounds more like a History Channel "realistic re-enactment" of Hannibal at Zama. For that matter it might even have been a History Channel programme about the suffragettes. I've really lost faith in that channel.
I'm still surprised when people expect historical accuracy from a film. I agree, however, that if you call yourself the "History Channel" you should at least TRY to get it right.
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Posted by an ex-nordmann - it has ceased to exist (U3472955) on Friday, 11th September 2009
They got the "channel" bit right. They definitely take up bandwidth.
My serious answer to the OP is that children, if presented with the opportunity to learn factual data, are very good at distinguishing fact from fancy (and enjoying both). It is however very scary just how many never get that opportunity!
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