The only thing that annoys me more than grey filter is how they even started abandoning heraldic surcoats in modern movies.

Henry V (1989) vs some modern abomination of what's supposed to be Henry V.

The reason why this annoys me the most is because there should be no excuse for this. There is no reasonable way to explain why you would not include heraldic surcoats in a movie depicting medieval warfare, considering how important part of warfare this was, serving as an identification for nobles and their units in a time when standardized uniforms did not exist yet.

With most other things you could sort of make some lame excuse. Like for example grey filter - artistic choise (a completely horrible one that makes the movie unwatchable but ok), real historic armors are expensive, extras are expensive etc. But this is literally just a piece of cloth. It should be no problem for a movie of a budget of this magnitude to get historically correct heraldic surcoats and tunics for the soldiers, depicting their coats of arms, the colors of their factions etc.

Also imagine how stupid and unrealistic this is, if the medieval armies had no heraldic surcoats and other types of colorful identifications like tunics, badges, it would be extremely difficult to tell each other apart on the battlefield, practically impossible in many cases. Yes in modern movies you have scenes of two armies with knights on both sides only wearing armors with no identifications whatsoever (even banners are rare), and the commoners wearing colorless rags, the infantry troops are not fighting under their banners. It's ridiculous. How could they even be able to recognize each other.

So the fact that these modern movies don't include this shows me that they are not even slightly interesting in being historically accurate and giving a fair depiction of a certain time period, they have no interest in presenting history, in fact it obviously appears that they want to actively portray it in a much worse matter than it was, because they removed of the most colorful and coolest aspects of the time, which would have cost them absolutely nothing of significance to include.

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