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Historical Inaccuracies In Kingdom Of Heaven

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In the movie Kingdom of Heaven it took us back to the time of the second crusades. The story was of Balian. Balian of Ibelin. Throughout this movie there were many significant historical inaccuracies. Such as the impossibility of surviving an arrow to the throat, a false love interest, and the remaking of the famous “cup scene.” I am going to show you how and why these occurrences in the movie are inaccurate, and will try to clarify why Hollywood might have changed these historical events.
In the movie, Balian and Sybilla fell in love, but this is a false love interest. Because according to Ream “it was Balian's brother, Baldwin, was the one in love with Sybilla not Balian.” “Baldwin and Sybilla were suppose to be married, but Baldwin was later captured by Saladin.” In the movie Sybilla was to be married to the King. Guy de Lusignan. During the movie Balian and Sybilla had partaken in an affair, and they made love. But in reality this would never happen because it was against their religion. Religion was very …show more content…

Here in the movie and the real life version it is very different from the one in real life. In the movie Saladin give the new King a glass to drink from,(he also fills the cup up with ice which is inaccurate within itself because they are in the middle of the desert and wouldn’t be able to retain its form, and its cubed ice!) Well the king refuse to drink from it so he hands over the cup to red beard. Then when red beard drinks from the cup instead, Saladin is displeased so he slits Prince Raynald throat. But in reality, it states in the Battle of Hattin, Ernoul (8). It says that the king does drink from the cup, but when red beard refuses to drink, he actually gets his head cut completely off by Saladin. So that is yet another inaccuracy in the movie. Perhaps they changed this so it would be less gory in case maybe younger viewers were watching, so this movie could be used for educational purposes

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