The movie The Kingdom of Heaven is a great movie about the crusades. The first crusade took place during the end 11th century and the last one took place during the 15th century.Now the movies good however there are some inaccuracies. Some of them that are in the movie are for one when they talk about ballian the movie portrays him all wrong. Also the longbow is another one that movie got all wrong. Last but not least was the landscape this was a big one that the movie gets wrong and i'll explain this later on down the road.
The landscape of Jerusalem in the movie is very wrong. First of the movie is filmed in Spain and in Morocco.The film also says that the Messina was the seaport to the holy land, but Messina is …show more content…
on the island of Sicily. If you know your geography then you should know that Jerusalem is not in the middle of a desert.The movie also doesn't show the any trees or even a bush and in Jerusalem there are lots of trees and bushes. the Kidron valley and the valley of Hinnon are not in this blockbuster film. This is a huge problem because how can you say your movie is about something that really happened but film it in the place that had nothing to do with it at that point in time.
The kingdom of heaven has it all wrong with the longbow, Also the ice.
According to the historylearningsite.com it states that the first longbow was in Wales in the 1280’s. I put this in here because it shows them shooting longbows in the movie, but the movie takes place in 1184.
Also in the movie they are eating cubed ice. This is wrong because in that time the ice was more like snow. Ice trays like we see in today's house did not come into play until the 1920’s.
In the movie they portray ballian as a bastard which isn't the case. Ballian actually knew his father. The movie also says that Ballian’s wife committed suicide and but, he does not. This makes no sense to me in the movie it seems like Ballian is grieving his wife's death but yet doesn't go to her funeral. Now I find this weird because the movie has a lot of stuff about Ballian that is right but is wrong to,in the movie they burn bodies but according to http://www.ukapologetics .com says the Crusaders did not bury their bodies.
Now it is time to end my quick rant about the kingdom of heaven. Now although i have been bashing the movie for most of this essay, it is still a great movie. I chose to do these because it is important to know because if you just watch the movie you would think that is all fact like i did. But when you dig down into it you see that the “facts” are not
true.