Factual Mistake:
the pageboys that attend Arthur are actually GIRLS. The makers of this insanely inaccurate movie obviously did not know that, in that period, boys and men alike wore their hair long and down to their shoulders.
shareActually this is based on the book by Mark Twain in which the pageboys were boys. I agree though, their hair had to be much longer. The big factual mistake is Sir Sagramor's name is spelled 'Sagramore', Sir Launcelot is spelled 'Lancelot', and Hank Morgan is called Hank Martin.
shareAnother factual mistake is that the movie portrays a blacksmith from Connecticut in Arthurian England. This is a complete anachronism- as America in those days had no European people living in it at all, much less blacksmiths, just indigenous people- and it leads to such historical absurdities as a band from 528 AD supposedly playing Tin Pan Alley type music.
shareI don't understand you. The scenes in america are set in present day (ie the year the film was made)/( book was written).
shareAre the stones that Merlin wears (broach/neck-drape thing and belt thing) turquoise? I may be mistaken but I thought turquoise was only found in the SW of the US. They just look a LOT like turquoise.
shareI don't remember whether they were turquoise or not, but . . .?!
For 2000 years Iran or Persia as it was once known, was an important source for it.
Even before that, back to 3000 BCE the ancient Egyptians used it and mined it in the Sinai Peninsula.
At that same time it was being mined and used by the ancient Egyptians, it was being mined and used by the ancient Chinese.
Thus, while it may not have been common in the time of King Arthur, whenever that was, it was probably not unknown.
As for the pageboys being played by page girls, you fooled me, as I have always thought they were boys. Though, I should have guessed something was up, for while I don't have any other examples of this, I know it's not the 1st time that boys have been played by girls, especially in a period piece like this.
Though, none of this takes away from a film that I quite enjoyed.