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British accuse hollywood of glorifying american history Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://au.news.yahoo.com/040801/11/q55s.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/040801/11/q55s.html Monday August 2, 05:59 PM British Historians Attack Hollywood 'Distortions' LONDON (Reuters) - Hollywood film studios are guilty of a "grotesque distortion of history" which is destroying Britain's national identity, a newspaper Sunday quoted British historians as saying. The chief executive of English Heritage, the government body responsible for the historic environment, told the Independent Sunday film-makers' "sloppy" and "formulaic" approach to history had left a generation of children confused. "One of my principal concerns is that the majority of children now leave school with the sketchiest of chronology about English history," Simon Thurley said, adding that they turned to films for knowledge. Antony Beevor, Britain's best-selling author of popular history, told the newspaper the Americanization of British history was a particular problem. "You can't turn every hero in the world into an American," he said. The historians singled out "Saving Private Ryan," based on the Normandy World War II landings, "U-571" about submariners, and "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" as prime offenders. In "Saving Private Ryan" all mention of British or Allied troops was omitted, while the British submariners at the heart of the real action were replaced by Americans in the film "U-571." "Robin Hood" was accused of distorting Britain's medieval past. Beevor described the trend as "shameless and totally irresponsible -- a grotesque distortion of history." Classical historian Bettany Hughes said it was not just British history that had been misrepresented. "Hollywood has committed some terrible crimes against history," she said, describing the current Hollywood epic "Troy" as a "travesty of mismatched cultural references." "Dead heroes in Greco-Roman dress were cremated with coins on their eyes -- before money had been invented," she said. Reuters/VNU

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