6 thoughts on “Fall Costume Movie/TV Show Trailer Fiesta!

  1. Speaking of history being sacrificed for drama (and patronage), the Scottish play is one big fat lie. MacBeth killed Duncan, who was a young man, in a field battle. Both on his wife’s side and his own he had a claim to the succession. (Her name is Gruoch, BTW). He ruled from 1040-1057 and was considered a good king in his day. Duncan the father of Duncan had violated the rule of succession by placing his son on the throne.

    1. The thing I love about Shakespeare is that historians have been bitching about how he sacrificed history in the name of a good story for centuries. I enjoy the mental image some disgruntled Jacobean historian sitting at his desk, writing scathing reviews for the broadsheets about how the newest production from that upstart playwright gets all the history wrong.

      “AND IT’S NOT EVEN SET IN THE CORRECT CENTURY!!! EVERYONE’S WEARING RUFFS!! RUFFS WEREN’T INVENTED UNTIL 50 YEARS AGO!”

  2. To be sure. James VIth/I claimed descent from Malcolm Canmore. What’s equally fascinating is the English view of the Italian courts of the time. If you look at some of the other playwrights of the Jacobethan era, they almost uniformly show the Italians as scheming, violent, licentious. Do you think they might have gotten that from the Borgias? Naaaah! Not really?

  3. I haven’t watched crimson peak, but one thing bothers me about it.
    The film is supposed to be set in 1887, but Mia Wasikowska’s character always seems to be wearing gowns with gigantic puffed sleeves. These wouldn’t be popular until the 1890’s. I just don’t get why they couldn’t have just bumped the plot up a few years.

    1. The story starts in 1887, but then Edith (Wasikowska) is only a child. The story proper takes place 14 years later. Costume plays a pretty big role, actually, as the Sharpe siblings are no longer rich, they can’t afford new clothing. What they wear is pretty but old fashioned. All the rest of the cast has moved on in their fashions.

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