>Scott dismissed criticisms of these historical inaccuracies. "Napoleon dies then, ten years later, someone writes a book. Then someone takes that book and writes another, and so, 400 [sic] years later, there's a lot of imagination [in history books]. When I have issues with historians, I ask: 'Excuse me, mate, were you there? No? Well, shut the fuck up then.'"
>>17272704>Napoleon dies then, ten years later, someone writes a book.He thinks Napeleon lived in 500 AD or something?Tons of books about him were written during his lifetime
>>17273078The american people are not intellectual, to put it mildly.
>>17273129Ridley Scott is an anglo
>>17273146Well then he just hates France and pretends to be retarded.
>>17273162Well, he cant direct historically accurate movie to save his life.. The battle scenes with the action unfolded with rapid coordination, almost as if the commanders had access to radios
>>17273078You weren't there tho
the entire job of historians is to go back through all of those sequential books to work out what actually probably happened vs what was iterative historical game of telephone nonsenseridley scott is just being a salty bitch