This doesn't usually bother me that much ...

[Odds]

Take a look at The Duke and see if you can spot any mistakes in the setting @Harry Bloomfield - it's the true tale of an art 'heist' in 1961. It looked authentic to me and Helen Mirren is always a mark of quality in any fillum.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Take a look at The Duke and see if you can spot any mistakes in the setting @Harry Bloomfield - it's the true tale of an art 'heist' in 1961. It looked authentic to me and Helen Mirren is always a mark of quality in any fillum.

I watched it quite a while ago, from what I remember - it seemed to be quite authentic.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

I'm sure there's a clip of an old Hollywood western online and, the reason it's online is, if you look very carefully far away in the distance you see a passenger jet ascending from behind the Hollywood hills

 

[crystal ball]

I agree, historical dramas, need to be historically accurate, in all essential facts. Most of us in any sort of trade, will spot inaccuracies of presentation in our own sphere - In dramas supposed to be set in the 60's, I spot modern MK sockets, switches, and switchgear and modern doorbell pushes, acceptable I suppose, but swapping white for black or Asian - no way..

A glaring error in the recent drama about the train robbers, they were loading vans outside the farmhouse underneath a flue for a combi boiler

 

[crystal ball]

Air con units outside buildings in Life on Mars

 

[crystal ball]

I agree, historical dramas, need to be historically accurate, in all essential facts. Most of us in any sort of trade, will spot inaccuracies of presentation in our own sphere - In dramas supposed to be set in the 60's, I spot modern MK sockets, switches, and switchgear and modern doorbell pushes, acceptable I suppose, but swapping white for black or Asian - no way..

How do you feel about swapping the other way?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

How do you feel about swapping the other way?

Exactly the same!

 

[crystal ball]

No Carry On films for you then

 

[JonathanM]

And then there's this sort of thing.

 

[crystal ball]

Mrs CB dragged me to see a production of Macbeth by a UK company dressed as Japanese Kabuki, always found the Bard a bit hard to follow but this was fantastic

 

[Mrs Ten Names]

Mrs CB dragged me to see a production of Macbeth by a UK company dressed as Japanese Kabuki, always found the Bard a bit hard to follow but this was fantastic

I enjoyed Evita, in a London show, way back in the 70's, when Elaine Paige and David Essex were starring.
But it wasn't historically accurate.

Often dramas, films locations, periods, etc are changed to create more interest.
Miss Saigon was based on the Puccini opera Madame Butterfly with a change of period and location. Madame Butterfly was created about 90 years before Miss Saigon, and in Japan.

 

[Skyrmeez]

West end musicals are just that and designed as a show to entertain live theatre. However, when 'films' purport to portray a true story with characters with Blue Plaques, then it becomes integral in getting it right.