The past is not a terrain producers understand anymore; they have transformed it with anachronistic tropes and thus made it unrecognizable.
Why they even bother with a past that is known in living memory, and is available in films, tends to suggest they are too lazy to find genuine new material, or that their industry, as many have proposed (Eno, for example) , is basically bereft of any new possibilities.
This ridiculous venture is not helped with a leading actor who resembles the puppet Joe 90, and who possesses the photogenic appeal of a stick of chalk. Surely wires were used to move the hands.
Such casting along, with many other poor choices, presents little more than a cheap con.
Why they even bother with a past that is known in living memory, and is available in films, tends to suggest they are too lazy to find genuine new material, or that their industry, as many have proposed (Eno, for example) , is basically bereft of any new possibilities.
This ridiculous venture is not helped with a leading actor who resembles the puppet Joe 90, and who possesses the photogenic appeal of a stick of chalk. Surely wires were used to move the hands.
Such casting along, with many other poor choices, presents little more than a cheap con.