How Accurate Is Hollywoods Depiction of Romans?
– Not At All Accurate. I have yet to see a Hollywood movie get remotely close to true accuracy of Roman Soldiers compared to current archaeological records, Academic and Reenactor studies and research. (At the same time, we still don’t know ‘everything’ about the Romans, we are still learning and discovering new things today). – Hollywood is also cheap, and Directors / Producers have a “Vision” of what they think or presume how Romans ought to have acted and looked like. Therefore decades old and inaccurate props are re-used for cheap, “experts” and consultants are usually ignored over the overall “Vision” of the ones who produce and finance the production, and, Top Exec’s use previous movie attendance and reception as the basis for the next movie of a similar flavor. The ‘logic’ being if the Last Roman Movie did SO well, then if they produce a copy of it but give it a new name, starring the highest paid actors, then surely the audience won’t know the difference and see this new movie
