/lit/ - Literature

>>20352005
I think it's a trope at this point and they have to do it to an extent. I have a buddy who did consulting work on a production about Rome and he immediately starts bringing up problems with the armor being the wrong period and so forth and the director basically shushes him and says
>look man, I know the armor is wrong for the period too, but this is what people think Romans look like and do and talk like and say so if we don't put this stuff in here they'd be confused because that's what it looked like in Spartacus

>>20177605
I tried reading it in high school one summer, and when I got to this bit where he's going on and on about the migration patterns of whales I was just let's leave this for college