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If I had a nickel for every time Bluepoch majorly featured an Intellect character who is sick in the head in their Pi Day art, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice

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The Physician: Historical accuracy

So far, it's scoring like 1-2?

The first impression: Why are all of the peasants dirty and not dressed properly?

Real colors from the time period:

Notice the white limestone walls?

And the depiction of peasants and saints was in bright colors.

And the movie?

WHERE IS THE COLOR?

They had dyes, you know, and the lords and Monasteries wanted the peasants to look nice to show off the peasantry.

OK, say you forgive the movie for not even bothering with illuminated manuscripts, which would have had even sharper colors back in the day when they painted them...

Barber...

No, the title was Barber surgeon.

They also worked originally in monasteries, cutting hair.

Monks also often had herbal knowledge:

From the Root & Leaf Journal - Stories, traditions, and the old ways of working with plants. If you imagine a medieval monastery, you mi

So double ding there.

The monk shows up and then calls them witches and witchcraft, that's the Early Modern period, not the 12th century. Again, barbers worked mainly for the monasteries.

So clean slate, and try to forgive the movie again, then random strangers adopt Rob's siblings. That's not how it would go. They would be sent to their relatives nearby and the villagers would make sure all of them are placed. And if not the local lord would see to the problem with the serfs (or the church) until they reached the age of majority, which what unlike what people think today was around 18-20. (I did a whole episode on adoption practices through the Early Modern Period with a truckload of references.)

OK, forgive the movie again, the medical practices is off... leeches, yes, pulling teeth, yes. No herbs, no. Lots of herbs was in the kit. Where are the herbs?

"Only Jews are allowed in (Effectively Iran)" Not true.

Christians and other religions were allowed in the Islamic empire as long as they submitted to Islamic power AND were willing to pay higher taxes for being a different religion. This was a policy later Spain would adopt.

They weren't all battles and bloodshed. There was also coexistence, political compromise, trade, scientific exchange—...

Mixed marriages was actually allowed in the Islamic empire. This was during the height of the Golden Age of the Islamic empire.

So the whole, "I need to become a Jew and appear Jewish" is a load of hogwash and runs a little anti-Semitic around the edges too.

Say you get past that, and the inaccuracies with the clothing, architecture, the medical knowledge, the dirty visuals, and the weird representation of Jews and the total ignorance about PoCs building many of the castles at the time (stone work mainly).

The film then portrays the Islamic world much, much more backwards than it is. Because white Christian man needs to be superior to Islamic peoples. --;;

The random beating up of a man? WHY?

Also, he would have worn eyeliner in the desert too because it's sunglasses of the time.

What they did get right, though is that women were allowed to read, but they also were allowed to do science and math, etc, which they didn't portray.

Forget all of that inaccuracy, the historical, the medical history, the clothing, surely the whole dramatic sandstorm thing has to be real. No. The wisest thing to do in a sandstorm is to find shelter and wait it out. Only in movies do they have idiots braving sandstorm.

I know, you want maximum drama, but I kinda think the true story would have been more interesting in this case:

Brightly colored peasants and serfs trying to make the grain for the lord, and monks who employ barber surgeons to shave their hair while they pray for the peasants. A lone boy becomes interested in the profession and becomes the man's apprentice, for a price (which is usually how apprentices worked—the parents paid for the upkeep). He would have to work hard to get the upkeep price himself.

But the boy learns of a far off land and gets into his head he will learn everything and be superior, but turns out he brings nothing and is an idiot in a foreign land. Throw in a love story with a Muslim woman, and see how forgiving Islamic empire was towards Christians, unlike what he's heard at home, he becomes wiser and learns a completely different method, and gets +1 on math +1 on reading, learns other languages, learns astronomy, etc, but needs to return home.

Show women as educated for the time and do a contrast. Do the whole idiot in a foreign land trope, rather than white man does lording over colonizer shit. Don't show Jews as the only ones that can go there. Show the contrast between lies and truth. Because Christians even report how they felt seduced by the wonders of the Islamic world once they tried to crusade there.

End the film there so you can do part II.

White men do not need to be the smartest in the room for a film or book to work, even with them as the protags. They do not have to make profound changes to those around them. Let them also be passive learners or flip it so they think they know all and don't, and they don't really change status quo, but learn from it and combine knowledge.

I know the compulsion for Europeans to like active male heroes and passive heroines, but I think it would be refreshing to have someone come in guns blazing and be humbled by greater knowledge and then find ways to blend what they do know with the existing knowledge. This would get rid of a lot of the colonizer feels that these type of films tend to give off. It's not demasculating for men to sit down, listen and learn from people unlike them. If anything, for a physician, I really think it shows how open and skilled the person can become.

Save the change the system films for police dramas.

I really was hoping for a more balanced look at Islamic medicine.... but Europe can't let go of the rescuing white boy. How did that work out for the rest of the world after the Colonial era? Not well was it... so maybe it's time to revise that sort of narrative.

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Using my study break to read The Physician by Noah Gordon (A German copy bc I got it secondhand) and I can really recommend it for any medieval nerds :)

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