Is this movie one of the most accurate historical films in recent memory? It sure seems so to me.
>4 years of research poured into this shit
>overwhelmingly based on primary sources
>hand stitched accurate clothing
>accurate replica of an English colonial farm, down to the type of wood used
>characters speak in early modern English
>Reformed Calvinist themes pretty heavily present throughout the movie
It was marketed as a horror movie, but it really isn't all that scary. However it's an awesome period piece.
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There was no such thing as witches, anon.
So that throws out like 90% of the movie.
The filmmakers suggested ergot poisoning led to hallucinations that sparked the Salem Witch Trials, but that theory is no longer accepted as plausible by historians, and even then the film got things wrong about the basics of ergot.
What did the filmmakers get right? Well there are these English puritanical colonists in 17th century New England. That's about it. There are a number of problems with the little homestead they build, like the windows and the bear traps and the clothing, and of course the whole thing is just too big for a family of banished outcasts to have built by themselves in a single season.
>>1123032
Witches are definitely real, anon.
>>1123050
this. take OP's mum for example
>>1123058
Rude.
>>1123032
>The filmmakers suggested ergot poisoning led to hallucinations that sparked the Salem Witch Trials
When was that ever suggested in the film?
>>1122302
Boardwalk Empire?
Apocalypto?
>>1123681
>Apocalypto?
>Historically accurate
>>1123032
> No such thing as witches
> implying that there wasn't the BELIEF in witches
>>1123681
>Apocalypto
Nigga ...
>>1123653
Never. The witch in the movie was a real witch and it was set 60 yearsbefore Salem.
>>1122302
Can you link to a site to watch it?
>>1125802
kat.cr
>>1122302
>4 years of research poured into this shit
And yet, they still had someone reciting Enochian keys which wouldn't be published for thirty more years. Yes, they were available, but True and Faithful wasn't publicly available until 1659, with the flick set in 1630.
>>1125815
Can you tell what ones they are? Im curious, and shazam doesnt find them.
>>1123653
There's a shot of the corn infected with ergot.
>>1124072
The filmmaker said that he deliberately put ergot on the corn in the film as a reference to its potential for hallucinations. However, he has also said that the film is open to interpretation, though he personally doesn't go the ergot route.
>Is this movie one of the most accurate historical films in recent memory? It sure seems so to me.
The creative team behind the film put a lot of effort into the film appearing historical. Everything you listed helps create an atmosphere that feels completely genuine. It doesn't feel like you're watching actors on a set, it feels like you're watching a family from another time and place. Despite the inaccuracies, I think it's one of the most historical "feeling" movies in film history.
Barry Lyndon is similar, though I think The Witch is more effective... then again as the director stated, without the techniques used in Barry Lyndon many of the techniques they used for lighting wouldn't have been possible.
>>1125815
>Enochian keys
You know if you accept that witches are real, and the movie, then you probably don't believe that Enochian magic was invented by Dee. Hardly an inaccuracy.
>>1128027
Also, there's a lot of Margaret Murray - tier feminist shit especially with the witches and the horned god (a literal goat in this instance). While it's been a long discredited theory, people certainly did believe that these secret witch cults existed.
