Reminds me of a story I heard in Toronto with a bunch of my Native friends and family down there.
While they filmed ‘Last of Mohicans’ (movie came out in 1992 but it was filmed in 1991)EDIT: I’m remembering wrong … it was a film in the late 1980s / early 1990s with filming that took place somewhere around Kingston / Toronto / Hamilton, in Ontario … and it was some period film with an epic battle scene … it was always a funny story with my city Indian friends because they remembered being bussed to these locations to do these scenes
… the production company decided to hire a bunch of Indigenous people from the city and throughout southern Ontario to take part in a big huge choreographed open battle scene. They only needed a few trained stunt people for the foreground characters but they hired a lot of untrained people to take part in the background and wider shots. Everyone got dressed in period gear and given instructions on what to do. They had to take several takes over a day of filming.
At one point, they had to break up actual fights as Native actors started to actually beat, bloody and threaten the white actors. What the production company didn’t know was that some of the actors were either street people or people close to living on the street and that some of them were down and out drug addicted people who were just there for a few hours work and didn’t care what they were doing. As soon as they were told to pretend to beat white people … they took out all their frustrations on a few of their fellow non-Native stunt acting extras.
People have mentioned that in some of the scenes from the film … those are actual bloodied people (both Native and non-Native) that got into some of the uglier actual fight scenes on set.
That’s darkly fascinating.
I always thought it was ‘Last of the mohicans’ because the same people I knew also took part in that film. They hire a lot of individuals from Six Nations near Hamilton Ontario, it’s the biggest native community in southern Ontario.
But that film was mostly done in the US.
I think the film where this happened was with ‘Black Robe’, another period film during that period in the 90s and this one was filmed on Quebec.
The people I knew in Toronto were people that ran support programs for indigenous people who lived on the street. They said they didn’t know any of it had happened until these street people came back to tell them about it. They said a lot of those street people just had fun being paid to beat up white people. Lol.
Left: Henry of Skalitz after 2 or 3 quests
Right: Henry of Skalitz in the end game
Praise God! Henry’s come to see us!
The teal man purse really sells it.
It’s just for show, of course - his coin is far too great and heavy for any purse to hold
And now I’m wondering… how old is the ‘that’s what she said’ joke?
In any case, I would have assumed it carried odds and ends. Like pocket rocks and maybe a flint and steel. snackage. Stuff like that. Like today, you wouldn’t really want your money dangling so accessibly.
…You mean the bag? Like, it’s literally just a bag.
Where is the left pic from?
Our dictator is busy fucking jizzing money into İstanbul Başakşehir to fund the propaganda pieces properly. Also, the rest of the budget went to censoring the cigarettes and alcohol in more secular productions.
Our dictator is busy fucking jizzing money into İstanbul Başakşehir to fund the propaganda pieces properly.
Well, I suppose as far as embezzling, corrupt, incompetent, backwards strongmen go, wasting public money on playing dress-up with toy soldiers is one of the less-bad outcomes for one’s lira. Better than just being stolen, or being blown on a half-a-billion dollar desecration of a national park for the Sultan’s palace. :/
Also, the rest of the budget went to censoring the cigarettes and alcohol in more secular productions.
Next Ataturk biopic will just be a censor bar wherever Mustafa Kemal would be 😭
Next Ataturk biopic will just be a censor bar wherever Mustafa Kemal would be 😭
“And the greeks were driven into the sea as we reclaimed Izmir, because… we were Muslims! And then the evil CHP ran turkey and forced everyone to be atheists and eat pork that they bought from europeans and they sucked. Until Adnan Menderes came, and that was the greatest time ever, until he was betrayed in 1960” /s
I’m sure most directors would love to make movies that are historically accurate but they don’t have enough money to do it.
Dunno about that. I’ve seen what Ridley Scott does with a blank check.
He makes big movies with it. Making big, historically accurate movies would be even more expensive. Titanic was famously very accurate and it’s one of the most expensive movies ever made (no. 7 adjusted for inflation). Every budget has limits.
Also, with the costume on the right you wouldn’t be able to see actors face which sucks for movies. Directors also often have to do things the way people expect them to look because other movies convinced them this is how it was. And of course many times they just focus on telling the story they want to tell, not making is as accurate as possible.
And I’m sure sometimes people are just stupid and lazy. I like to think most of the time movies are inaccurate because of the other reasons but of course I don’t know for sure.
Ottomans! Go get them boys!
