The Movie Departures From The Historical Record

Davis claims that her work is more historical than the movie because the film-maker’s â€Å"departures from the historical record.† (Benson 57). That is, Vigne’s work lacks from historical understanding because he divires from the right direction due to several reasons including but not restricted to ignoring the Basque region, neglecting religious issues, and disregarding complicity of Bertrande except in the last invented scene when she gave water to judge, and she confessed to him. More importantly, the trial would have been confidential not open to public. In addition, the movie characterized with the complicity and vagueness, which made it hard to interpret. As reported by Davis, the film’s main problem lies in its failure to capture the†¦show more content†¦Basically, the film is there to make money, so the producers have to make it accessible to as many people as possible. Undoubtedly, the film producers make their finishing touch in order to make it appeal to the audiences. They added some changes, such as using wrong color robes for the judges of the Parlement of Toulouse as well as omitting vital information, which affects the original story by intention or chance in make it an artistic touch rather than historical touch. It seems to me that Davis’s book is more historical than the movie because she provides a detailed description of the life of rural families during that time, and the journey of Martin’s family from the Basque region to the Artigat because of political and economic reasons. She goes more and demonstrates the social circumstances of the French peasantry in the sixteenth century. At any rate, Davis s account of both the trial and village life in Artigat is more historically accurate than the movie. Davis brings the story to life as a historical achievement. That is why Davis writes her book specifically to address the shortage in the film and to â€Å"follow the historical evidence closely.† It is unquestionable that historians tend to be skeptical about their sources; it is the nature of any historical work, when they address basic facts that happened in the past. Obviously enough, in the most cases,