Hollywood Film Based On The Crusades

This movie is a Hollywood movie, based on the Crusades. During this film the Christians were defending Jerusalem, which caused a war. The war ended up being a brutal battle between the Islam’s and the Christians. While this movie was very entertaining, Hollywood added a great amount of fiction features. They showed a different type of quality for this era. Some of the features were realistic, but other ones were not realistic at all. This movie was based on a true historical event that happened around 1187. The fight was a religious war that ended brutally. One of the main ideas in this story was the warfare and conflicts. See, back in 1187 they had no where as near as many weapons and defense tools as this movie portrayed. The Hollywood movie showed that the Christians had a more powerful and unique weaponry than they usually would have used. The Islamic people showed their defense by firing huge stone balls on fire. That’s not what really happened in the era of this war. “Archaeologist excavating ancient Carthage found 5,600 catapult stones used to defend the city from Romans. The stones come in three sizes: A small size weighing 7.7 lbs., a medium size between 8.8 and 30.8

They introduced the long bow as a main weapon in this war. The Islamic people would shoot burning arrows are just regular arrows into the castle. What they didn’t understand was that the longbow wasn’t a part of weaponry in this war. It wasn’t even invented yet.” The longbow was invented by the Celts in Wales around 1180 C.E., but was not really used by the English military until the 1300s”. This movie showed it as if it was already invented and has been invented for a while, because they used it as one of their main weapons. Also, something that made the movie a bit inaccurate was the speed of the arrows. At this era, there was not a way to make an arrow go that fast. They did not invent that type of technology