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The one thing that really threw me while watching was when they had Alexander VI crowned to the tune of Zadok the Priest (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1W1XJ96y9k - chosen as Andrew Davis is the conductor). Now it's not that anything was wrong with the acting (Jeremy Irons deserves all the awards), or the music but Handel is so much a product of an era after Alexander VI, such a totally different culture, a post-Reformation culture at that, that using his music was jarring. I refuse to believe they couldn't have found something else.
It also stuck out because the rest of it was so attempted accuracy. In something where there is no attempt at historical accuracy (A Knight's Tale, which I love, or the Elizabeth Taylor version of Ivanhoe), I don't think I would even have noticed.
It's odd what throws people out, I mean, I've cursed 300 for it's lack of proper phalanxes, and I remember several people complaining about the body hair (or lack thereof) in Rome, but I think this is the first time I've had the problem due to music.
It also stuck out because the rest of it was so attempted accuracy. In something where there is no attempt at historical accuracy (A Knight's Tale, which I love, or the Elizabeth Taylor version of Ivanhoe), I don't think I would even have noticed.
It's odd what throws people out, I mean, I've cursed 300 for it's lack of proper phalanxes, and I remember several people complaining about the body hair (or lack thereof) in Rome, but I think this is the first time I've had the problem due to music.
