Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "This is complete nonsense" video.

  1. On the topic of helmets, despite it's many historical inaccuracies, I have to say that the show Spartacus: Blood and Sand tackled the obfuscation of the characters faces due to the helmets really well. In one of the fight scenes where Spartacus and Crixus are fighting while wearing gladiator helmets, they used a technique where it looks like a camera was located inside the helmets themselves, showing the characters faces in jump cuts between the sword strikes and blows. Personally I loved that. It really took you as a viewer into the very thick of the fighting in a very intimate manner. Hundreds of times better than having silly half helmets on the heads of the actors
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  2. Said it before but: directors citing "artistic license" as an excuse to ignore historical accuracy has become a terrible norm. Historically accurate movie adaptations are nearly non-exsistent to the point where seeing just one director pursuing historical accuracy would be a breath of fresh air. But I guess suggesting it would be like an implicit insult to the "creative genius" and imagination of hollywood directors...
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