I recently watched an interview with historian Mike Loades, where he claimed that Laurence Olivier invented the indirect volley of arrows in his film Henry V (1944). Apparently, the limited surviving evidence on longbow usage in field battles shows them shooting directly. The film industry inventing history really does go back to the beginning.Hollywood has always been entertainment not history. Historical facts in a movie are more of an accident than intentional. It probably has been that way since ”The Great Train Robbery” and before. Not much different than Shakespeare or even Greek tragedies.
For a new movie that could be made, a really high budget and well made pike and shot era movie would be amazing, even if i am the only one excited lol
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