If there is one thing that irritates me more than any other, it has to be historical inaccuracies in film and TV scripts.
Now I’m not talking about things like Braveheart or
The Battle of the Bulge or countless other attempts by the Americans to rewrite
history.
No, the things that irritate me are the little things,
the small easy to verify things, the things that they just can’t be bothered to
do right.
For example, in the American hit TV series NCIS there
is a character, Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo played by Michael Weatherly, who,
apart from being a special agent also considers himself to be a bit of film buff.
DiNozzo is constantly either quoting from movies or is
making endless film references to accompany any given situation he is in or
indeed crime scene he is at.
In one episode he is drawing a parallel between his
own situation and that of the characters in the 1938 classic “Angels with Dirty
Faces” with James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Humphrey Bogart.
And the afore mentioned parallel would have been quite
apt, had he not made a serious faux pas, well I think it was serious.
He referenced to the fact that Rocky Sullivan and
Jerry Connolly grew up as tough kids in Hell's Kitchen, the toughest part of
New York, and their destinies were set when Rocky got sent to reform school and
Jerry escaped the law and went on to becomes a priest.
So far so good, but where DiNozzo went wrong was to
say that the Father Connolly character was played by Bogey (Humphrey Bogart),
who was in the film, when he was in fact played by Pat O'Brien.
Quite unforgivable when DiNozzo is supposed to be an
aficionado of film.
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