Gladiator II: Amazing or Awful? Archaeologist Film Critics!

Welcome to Unstratified Entertainment: Watching Brief. In this supplementary series, Marc (Mr Soup) & Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) cast an eye over topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what they find.

Today we examine Archaeology's relationship with cinema. Do archaeologists make good film critics? Does Hollywood have a responsibility to portray the past 'accurately'?

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0:00 Introduction

0:31 England (Almost) Won the Euros!?

3:46 Gladiator II Trailer & Archaeologists’ Reactions

14:34 Pedants & ‘Inaccuracy’, Gladiator & Kingdom of Heaven

18:58 Evidence, Entertainment & Pragmatism

23:35 Are We TRAINED to Expect Certain Accents?

45:26 Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg & Hanks

48:00 Do Film makers Have a Responsibility to History?

1:07:48 Archaeology is a Flawed Record!

1:11:20 Are There Limits on Creative License?

1:15:04 Opinions, License & Responsibility…

1:19:50 & Freedom of Speech!

1:22:02 Archaeologists Don’t Have a RIGHT to be Heard!

1:23:15 Conclusion

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Links:

Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024 Movie) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington:

   • Gladiator II | Official Trailer (2024...  

History Hit: Historian REACTS to 'Gladiator II' Trailer:

   • Historian REACTS to 'Gladiator II' Tr...  

Knight’s Tale Trailer (2001):

   • A Knight's Tale (2001) Official Trail...  

How Saving Private Ryan's D-Day sequence changed the way we see war:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/2...

An Archaeologist Who Works in TV: Sam Stein - Archaeo-Chat:

   • An Archaeologist Who Works in TV: Sam...