How Victorian poverty influenced how we look at Medieval history

Turned a Twitter thread into a little video.
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[@ArriusDixie]

1930s - 50s historical movies usually showed medieval times as clean and colourful. I've seen people watch them now and laugh at how inaccurate they are, which I have corrected. But if a movie did that now their production would be ridiculed for looking cheap and corny. I mostly watch these older films, most of the new ones annoy me too much. And the medieval king will drop an f bomb in the first scene to seem edgy 🙄

[@anna_in_aotearoa3166]

In yet another instance of "Victorians ruin everything", this idea of filthy medieval cities seems to still be VERY much alive and well in the Hollywood imagination? Cf. some pretty eye-opening & infuriating pictures of reproduction medieval or Tudor villages being heavily grimed up by production crews for filming... Not to mention the almost ubiquitous colour palette of mud-browns & greys that prevails in nearly all post-1960s historical film or tv productions set in the era...? 🙍‍♀️

[@JasperBaron-z1d]

Claiming that it was worse in medieval England would have helped the poor Victorians stay relieved

[@mcmadow]

Why did it take all of seven days for me to be informed about this channel. I expect better TH-cam.
Nice video 👍

[@iObeyJesus]

please post a video every time you post a blog