(November 5, 2024 at 1:01 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Historian calls Gladiator2 'total Hollywood bullshit' for having sharks in the flooded colosseum scene — “I don’t think Romans knew what a shark was”
Ridley Scott when asked about sharks — "Dude, if you can build a Colosseum, you can flood it with fucking water. Are you joking? And to get a couple of sharks in a net from the sea ... Of course they can"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/g...236047785/
Quote:In the Roman age, sharks entered in many artistic representations of fishing, as in the two ancient mosaics in Pompei, where catsharks (Scyliorhinus spp.) are depicted among the coastal marine fauna. After the end of the Roman Empire naturalistic observations were replaced by renewed mysticism and superstition.
And the article calls this person 'a top historian'.
In a wider sense, it seems rather silly to point out historical inaccuracies in works that are labeled as historical fiction. Gladiator II isn't a biopic, ffs.
Boru
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