tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post7225136373340384395..comments2023-05-02T23:19:12.706+10:00Comments on Armarium Magnum: General AddendaTim O'Neillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-79907453287784382852010-01-05T09:19:44.496+11:002010-01-05T09:19:44.496+11:00The attempt to whitewash Amenábar's blatantly ...The attempt to whitewash Amenábar's blatantly agenda-driven film by pointing out that Hypatia is portrayed as being after elliptical planetary orbits rather than heliocentrism seems rather pointless to me. <br /><br />To begin with, I find it hard to conceive what sense elliptical orbits would make within the non-heliocentric, Ptolemaic model, which Hypatia, as a daughter of Theon (Ptolemy&#Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-58592643873339127512009-10-16T08:32:56.886+11:002009-10-16T08:32:56.886+11:00I've just read your previous comment and I hav...I've just read your previous comment and I have a doubt.<br /><br />Of course, as long as they don't claim to be accurate, it's ok. But... what things could you consider ok when they claim it? As it's impossible to make something perfectly accurate, and every book/movie that tries to make narrative from history or any other real life event has to add and modify things... that'Javier Chacónhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06966456236566100873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-35615734410850389212009-10-16T08:19:30.664+11:002009-10-16T08:19:30.664+11:00"who may have come close to proving that the ..."who may have come close to proving that the Earth revolves around the sun 1,200 years before Johannes Kepler"<br /><br />That's not true. What the movie suggest (it's just a macguffin of course) was not discovering Heliocentrism, first, because in the movie they have an argument much first than that and lots of theories appear from the past, one of them of course, Aristarchus&#Javier Chacónhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06966456236566100873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-8976815584045098682009-08-29T11:39:19.172+10:002009-08-29T11:39:19.172+10:00Bill,
As someone who does some historical and &qu...Bill,<br /><br />As someone who does some historical and "historicalish" (eg alternative history) fiction writing myself, this is something I've given a lot of thought. As it happens, I'm pretty tolerant of people using some poetic license or even changing things substantially, <b>so long as they make it clear that they are not claiming accuracy</b>.<br /><br />The HBO series <Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-43724320494802730182009-08-29T11:26:10.439+10:002009-08-29T11:26:10.439+10:00Hi Tim,
I've only just discovered your blog, ...Hi Tim,<br /><br />I've only just discovered your blog, after having been led here by a debate about the Hypatia movie elsewhere.<br /><br />The debate about that movie aside, though, I'm curious to know what your thoughts are in general about historical inaccuracy in film and literature. Demanding 100% accuracy is, I think, too much to ask, and would really just stifle creativity. VeryBillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-27847708400784025312009-06-11T06:45:06.439+10:002009-06-11T06:45:06.439+10:00"I thought you were going to be reviewing The..."I thought you were going to be reviewing The Closing of the Western Mind"<br /><br />I am.Tim O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00292944444808847980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-86363071774880421722009-06-11T04:16:24.258+10:002009-06-11T04:16:24.258+10:00I thought you were going to be reviewing The Closi...I thought you were going to be reviewing The Closing of the Western MindAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-29339247383726066042009-05-30T17:09:15.798+10:002009-05-30T17:09:15.798+10:00Your blog has landed in my regular bookmarks, Tim....Your blog has landed in my regular bookmarks, Tim. Good stuff, as always.<br /><br />History has sadly always been distorted (or "creatively interpreted") by people for own their ideological ends, but I do wonder when - if ever - myths such as the one this movie is perpetrating are going to let slip. In this case, it is particulary sad (in relation to the atheist website you linked to) because Kaptajn Congoboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00096496363498080615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774463840913796679.post-43103830211955431452009-05-29T20:30:52.126+10:002009-05-29T20:30:52.126+10:00Here is a nice synopsis of the film:
http://www.s...Here is a nice synopsis of the film:<br /><br />http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/cannes-reviews/agora/5001280.article<br /><br />The story starts in 369AD as tensions in the city market area (“agora”) between polytheistic Pagans and Jesus-worshipping Christians have reached new highs. The director of the library Theon (Lonsdale) is hoping to hand over control to his daughter Hypatia, but the Humphreyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11936974517695558399noreply@blogger.com