{"id":12533,"date":"2008-03-31T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T22:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/31\/reel-unreality.html"},"modified":"2008-03-31T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T22:03:08","slug":"reel_unreality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/31\/reel_unreality.html","title":{"rendered":"Reel Unreality"},"content":{"rendered":"

While everyone has a good laugh over “historical” movies of the 30s and 40s (be it pirates, or Robin Hood, or Musketeers<\/a>) and how riddled with errors they are, the fact is that movies these days don’t seem to be much more accurate — even if they are a lot more pretty. Yahoo! Movies Presents: The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Mel Gibson is the star in three of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While everyone has a good laugh over “historical” movies of the 30s and 40s (be it pirates, or Robin Hood, or Musketeers) and how riddled with errors they are, the fact is that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128894,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/that-old-timey-radio-and-movie-accent.html","url_meta":{"origin":12533,"position":0},"title":"That old-timey radio and movie accent","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Nov-15 2:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at the prominent accent of American radio and movie performers from the 30s and 40s, the Transatlantic Accent -- where it came from, and where it went. 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