What is wrong with this picture?

In which I get a little bit critical about a single image from the film 'Gladiator'; we hear some royalty-free music; and we see sheep at close quarters.
I have decided to do these voice-over videos rarely. This video took two days to put together, because, as there was no visual of me talking, I felt the need to make the visuals interesting by adding animations, captions, and the like. Yes I drew that map from scratch. Yes, it took flipping ages.
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[@TheInroad]

Can you imagine watching a movie with this guy

[@AthenisOculi]

I would love.

[@andrewmarshall3891]

No. I'd strangle the fecker.

[@omairshafiq1998]

That might be me

[@albertkotmann1903]

If it's a very accurate movie xD

[@TheInroad]

@Raymond Procyon. Lotor jr Why

[@tyerex5031]

What I find most disturbing is there's some random person following him with a camera from the future.

[@igbotimehopper64yearsago46]

Yea that ticked me off

[@veil337]

Yeah unidentified time-travelling cameraperson is my biggest pet peeve

[@logictotalwar1201]

Hilarious

[@kronckew]

See qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-c9f21681cd74e6f0fc1f366b47db3517 It distinctly shows a Roman in full lorica segmentata with a camera taking pictures of a Dacian splitting a roman scutum with his falx while another person is photographing all of them. The SD card with the photo was found sealed in a It was found sealed in a lead box in one of the roman catecombs inside a wax sealed glass box. Marcus Aurelius and Commodus would have been very familiar with the Dacians.

[@brunocp87]

Maybe they found this footage among some unearthed ancient artifacts (and colorized it)

[@NaeMuckle]

When i showed my dad red dead redemption 2 first thing he said was "they got the roads wrong"

[@boringvids7543]

Lmao what a fool, you dad wasn't there.

[@NaeMuckle]

@@boringvids7543 well they did get the roads wrong. They had 3 tracks. You see the wear and tare on Roman roads... He wasn't around in Rome either.

[@lolsbarry2248]

this was one of the first things I noticed too lol

[@Mikey-zk5wc]

@@NaeMuckle pls elaborate

[@NaeMuckle]

@@Mikey-zk5wc if you notice about a third of the NPCs in the game are using horse and cart. A track with heavy cart use has 3 ruts in the road not 2. 1 for each wheel and a wider one in the center made by the horse.

[@ClarinoI]

Why is he walking through the field, when there's a perfectly good road right there? He's trampling some poor farmer's crops for absolutely no reason.

[@regimeoftruth]

But they’re his crops. Maximus will trample his own crops if he pleases!

[@scintillam_dei]

Because HIS CROPS DELENDA EST.

[@The_ZeroLine]

@@regimeoftruth Lol

[@viysnjor4811]

That field was Elysium, Roman heaven, so of course it would be filled with perfect wheat, no property boundaries, and everyone knows that in heaven, everyone drives sports cars down country roads. Duh.

[@j_o_h_n_d_u_n_n]

The short stalk variety of wheat was designed to make it easier for combine harvester to mow down, also to be less prone to wind damage ...

[@Sophie-it8jy]

@@vidyaWolf Shelby Cobras, Shelby Cobras everywhare!

[@braydenj1327]

@Darius They aren't wrong. croplife.org/news/semi-dwarf-wheat-the-game-changer/

[@grizzlygrizzle]

As in the "salmon mousse" scene from Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life."

[@turtleextra4128]

Viy Snjór Greek heaven

[@fenhen]

It’s almost as if they didn’t record this film in Roman times...

[@SwordTune]

But it's supposed to be set in those times. There's doing things well enough and there's doing things right.

[@sovereignindividual2625]

They did though

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

Yes indeed..

[@rjokohl]

Cheap bastards production company didn't want to send the production back in time

[@connornobbs3487]

Pffff as if

[@mikecurley3849]

Imagine having LB as the historical consultant on a film. After 6 months of delayed production, everyone on set would be remortgaging their homes...

[@Mic_Glow]

Lindybeige travels back in time with the film crew: - you, you there, yes you random peasant, take off your hat, is not historically accurate. All ready? Action!

[@snooooop235]

I’m sure he’s dead at this point in the movie? So he didn’t “travel” to Spain from Germany.. he went to the next place

[@levimalone4433]

Exactly three whole point is that he died and the final scene was basically his heaven, all's he wanted was to come home. But even earlier in the movie his family was killed so them waiting for him was obviously him in what the Roman's called elysium.

[@Tore_Lund]

@@levimalone4433 Wouldn't his wounds magically have healed then?

[@Tore_Lund]

@@mattmurphy7030 Who would appreciate Heaven if you stayed old and fragile?

[@tator9798]

I think he meant at the beginning of the film when he was severely wounded in germany an traveled tp Spain to find out his family was dead

[@billyandrew]

France, the next place? Lol.

[@salame2693]

This was him entering the afterlife not going to Spain

[@Shadec1]

the afterlife is set in 2008? damn, i was hoping it was earlier

[@Siegbert85]

I believe it was the same shot of his home though just tinted blue.

[@topcat8804]

Hold on - since we're not seeing it from his (Crowe's) pov then it can't be his experience of the afterlife - it's someone else's, standing behind him. That makes it even more confusing.

[@colinp2238]

I think the analogy is that entering the Elysian Fields was the same as going home.

[@Zoutsteen]

well, something died alright

[@BabylonianHebrew]

legalise wheat

[@RC15O5]

Chyah bro-tendo, legalize ranch!

[@goro1160]

Babylonian Hebrew let the gluten free

[@JYT256]

Whegalise leat. wait

[@clayz1]

Legalize weed free wheat?

[@JYT256]

Wheat is already megal l8

[@BobtheBuilder-rh3xu]

He didn't notice they speak in English also my gosh how did he miss that

[@smockboy]

Probably has something to do with the fact that the entire video is centred around a single still image - sound quality is a bit shit on a photograph...

[@BobtheBuilder-rh3xu]

@@smockboy haha clearly your right haha.. what's wrong with this picture should off gave it away. These comments tho

[@kronckew]

@Walter ...and failed.

[@scottydu81]

@@kronckew It will never be good enough for you people tho so why bother? It’s a Sisyphean task

[@kronckew]

@@scottydu81 It will be good enough for 'Us People' when Hollywood is more historically accurate rather than KowTowing to OSHA and the 'That'll be good enough, nobody will notice anyway' brigade. We are not the only ones rolling boulders uphill...

[@stuartosborne6263]

That “wheat” he is walking through, looks like barley to me.

[@rodjones117]

It is barley

[@armahpruski5877]

Nah nah, it's spelt

[@calebfuller4713]

It could be. I can tell the two easily IRL, but I can't find a hi-res enough shot to really tell in this scene. Although as Armah said, wouldn't spelt or emmer be a more accurate historical option?

[@armahpruski5877]

@@calebfuller4713 Spelt was the staple crop of Europe during the Roman Empire and post Roman Empire. It was also mainly grown in the Germany. So it just made sense in my head.

[@australianword3812]

@@armahpruski5877 I thought he was in Hispania

[@human7331654]

OH dear GOD I would pay such good money to watch the movie with your commenting on it. I swear you should do a video series like that.

[@human7331654]

mike b You could call it Lindybeige's History Theater 2000 B.C.

[@yetanother9127]

With enough experience (i.e. watching a lot of Lloyd's videos), you can do one yourself; just put on an episode of Vikings (VIKINGS!), Game of Thrones, or other similar work, and see how many anachronisms you can spot. Also known as the SCA Drinking Game.

[@StelarCF]

+Jonathan Hughes Game of Thrones doesn't really work, since the universe is fictional, has magic and seems to be stuck in a permanent feudal pre-renaissance period while still having some of the advances.

[@yetanother9127]

GoT is fantasy, but steel is still steel and people are still people; the most blatant absurdities remain (the architecture, ARRGH), and it's very possible to do a critique of the series.

[@StelarCF]

I never said it's not possible to critique, but you didn't say anything about critiquing it, rather you said "how many anachronisms you can spot", which makes no sense considering GoT had a different history than the real world. It's going to be completely anachronistic to the real world by the simple fact it doesn't share the same history. And yes, you can critique it, but you cannot do it blindly by assuming that if some weapons, techniques, troop types, armour didn't coexist in history that they can't do so in GoT. That said, you can still critique weapons if they don't make sense considering other weapons and armour, or armour that doesn't make sense considering weapons that are in use.

[@robcandy9273]

I can no longer unsee these roads with grass in the middle in period dramas 😂

[@OFFCODEV2]

The guy who made the video is a idiot ..this is when the gladiator went to heaven

[@ProjectEkerTest33]

@@OFFCODEV2 Yeah but his vision of heaven is of his farm in ancient Spain.

[@davidfrisken1617]

They were like that on minor tracks used by many locals carting produce. Major Roman roads were very wide and the cart paths would be repaired and shifted across the surface.

[@InsanePorcupine]

Knowledge is power and also kind of suffering sometimes. XD

[@InsanePorcupine]

@@OFFCODEV2 Heaven is in the future? Mind blown.

[@jamesmoran5192]

I just can't believe they didn't film it in ancient Roman times.

[@scottydu81]

You practically HAVE to invent actual time travel to appease these people. It will never be enough so why bother trying?

[@InsanePorcupine]

@@scottydu81 Depends on your intended audience I guess though right? Also, it's not like the movie is terrible because of these things, but to the enlightened it's not like you can help but notice these things. It's like noticing the wrong use of "there" in someones grammar. Most people can handle a couple grammar mistakes but if your paragraph only consisted of grammar mistakes you might start to judge the content of it a bit more.

[@Grivian]

@@scottydu81 But imagine how great the movies would be

[@larryclemens1850]

Priceless.

[@julioalbertopalomo968]

Gladiator: not historically accurate, but damn it’s a great film.

[@LoneWolf-je9vr]

Damn it is .

[@Moon_Puff]

My absolute favorite. It's like a knights tale. Not exactly accurate but really conveys the feel of the time, which i think is still a huge educational benefit

[@katyungodly]

@@Moon_Puff films like this get people interested in the ancient world, which eventually leads to them learning about how they actually were.

[@alvinoflys7504]

@@katyungodly Had this movie on vhs and spent many an afternoon on a wooden horse with wooden sword reenacting that first battle. I can say without a doubt this movie is what got me interested in the military and ancient history to boot. I owe my adulthood hobbies to those afternoons :')

[@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895]

That is subjective

[@boiledelephant]

So Elysium has cars, pesticides and modern farming equipment, is what I'm getting. Man, Elysium is weird.

[@nastrael]

Pluto doesn't give a fuck about your expectations!

[@Nugcon]

The concept of time doesn't exist Elysium apparently

[@brentfisher902]

The rule of Science states that the Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

[@ub3rfr3nzy94]

Or maybe the god of harvest just zaps away all the weeds. I mean, for weeds to grow in heaven weeds would have to be brought there right? Obviously weeds go straight to tartarus.

[@ericdale4641]

Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the wife of Hades/Pluto the daughter of Ceres/Demeter, the goddess of agriculture? It would make sense that there would be plentiful harvests in the afterlife.

[@TH-ds2yx]

Historical inaccuracies aside, this was such a great film.

[@TH-ds2yx]

@Misanthrope Have you not seen Braveheart?

[@WarriorPoet01]

The opening battle scene was fantastic (flame arrows! LOL) and then.......Ridley lifts the Zulu war chant from the movie “Zulu”. Ruined the entire feel for me.

[@shamteal8614]

@@WarriorPoet01 That was filmed on Forestry Commission land in North Hampshire near to Blackbush airport.

[@gabrielm.942]

Tom H yeah but this wasn’t one of the inaccuracies. Sure it wasn’t perfect but it was the scene at the end where he goes too the after life.

[@blessedwithchallenges9917]

Agreed!

[@Ivellios23]

"I have no strong objection to these parts..." LMAO!!

[@Quaerite.Intellectum]

That was the best part of the video. Lol!

[@julianbueno699]

I am a Spaniard that grew up in a place similar to the south of Spain, and that looks exactly the same as the real life recordings of Lindybeige of Turkey (Mallorca, in case you want to check). I can confirm everything the video says about the roads, how the animals would act around them, and about that the plots of land would be much more divided and with stone walls around them.

[@sidharthcs2110]

He's dead , mate. He's in afterlife , where everything is picture perfect

[@williamnield7133]

do they also have cars in the roman afterlife because the path still has car tracks

[@sheikranl3949]

@@williamnield7133 And isn't made out of stone, which was the thing of the Romans. Building stone roads so that troops could get somewhere quickly and trading got easier.

[@blindleader42]

@@williamnield7133 Of course they do, Italian sports cars. What a silly question. 😋 😁

[@MothaLuva]

@@williamnield7133 Not „still has“ but „has already“ or „already has“, I think.

[@MothaLuva]

@thomas wolfe Would it?

[@kryl0b]

According to IMDB, "Gladiator" had 11 historical advicers on set. One of them quit, and another refused to have their name in the credits. It's an entertaining movie, but I would never consider it a historically accurate portrayal. For gods sake, even the main characters name doesn't make any sense! "Maximus Decimus Meridius". a more accurate name might be "Decimus Maximus Meridius", and even then you are missing his family name.

[@SonofSethoitae]

Wouldn't "Decimus" be his family name? Like how Gaius Julius Caesar's family name was Julius?

[@kryl0b]

+SonofSethoitae perhaps. I'm not going to pretend I'm an expert on the subject, but from what I've read, I've understood that "Decimus" means "The Tenth", and that it's a first name, like septimus or quintus, "Seventh" and "Fifth", respectively. But either way, his name is missing either a first name or a family name.

[@kryl0b]

+SonofSethoitae Maximus is actually a family name, which would mean he'd probably fulfill the Tria Nomina. I could be wrong, but in that case, him being referred to as "Maximus" would also be correct, since he'd be referred to by his peers by his family name, not his first name. So either he should be called "Decimus Maximus Meridius" or everyone would call him Decimus.

[@SonofSethoitae]

+Travis Tee Oh it's definitely constructed wrongly. Decimus is mostly used as a cognomen, to indicate they were the tenth kid with their given name. And Meridius means "middle", used for much the same purpose.

[@kryl0b]

Well, you're sort of right. A praenomen is a given, first name. A cognomen is a hereditary name to differentiate between branches in a family. So you are right in everything except the term itself, and I completely agree beyond that. "Meridius" could be a cognomen, and would perhaps refer to Merida in spain, presumably his home. But that's just speculation on my part, and with all the mistakes they made in the movie, I wouldn't be surprised if they just used a praenomen as a cognomen.

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

when im arguing with someone and they dont know what nitpicking means im just going to show this video

[@partyanimals9026]

lmao. it's like he knows what he's talking about but he doesn't know how to criticize a movie

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

@Bold yeah but thats nothing compared to the whole movie also adding that this is when he dies, and i do know its kind of satire and i did like the video cause it made me laugh

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

@Bold wat

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

@Bold wait you're the same guy complaining about the usage off terms that people use to refer to neurodiverse people in nexpos video wat

[@marmolejomartinezjoseemili9043]

@Bold bro calm, down I know people aren't acostum to having neurodiverse people in their life but I'm pretty sure many people know that they exist but the thing is that they can't help, some have very bad financial problems and others fail to understand the condition these people have, so they can't help but wonder what it's like, people want to care but I don't wanna be rude but, they have priorities, like diaseises and financial problems, if you want people to help the people with most struggles you need to help them by having a government that actually cares and a government that helps everyone like a government that actually has free healthcare

[@MaskHysteria]

"Ancient wheat was quite tall" Or, Ancient Egyptians were quite short...

[@chadosama5399]

Dude... The wheat was a metre high.

[@ClingyCrab]

@@chadosama5399 then so were the Egyptians...

[@chadosama5399]

@@ClingyCrab Then they have done the Pygmy out of a stereotype...

[@firstname1lastname127]

Or the wheat hadn't fully grown yet...

[@mauricematla1215]

Well in case of the ancient Egyptians we litterally have them warts and all though the look a bit dry to me these day's determinig the average height of an ancient egyptian is sometimg a schoolboy with a meassuring tape could figure out.

[@joniscraft]

This picture is actually from the end of the movie, where he has just been in a fight with Commodus and dies, arriving in Elyseum.

[@xCorvus7x]

Which is supposed to look like his home.

[@thedeadnightking9975]

And not modern day filled with cars 😂

[@pyroparagon8945]

Everything would still be true, except the field boundaries. I don't imagine Ancaps run elyseum, so no fences makes sense. The outfits, wrong type of wheat, wrong roads, and other things still check out.

[@xCorvus7x]

@@pyroparagon8945 * "An"caps

[@pyroparagon8945]

@@xCorvus7x Ancap is a term for Anarcho-Capitalists, so why would I put a prefix in quotation marks?

[@pRahvi0]

Are we just going to ignore the fact that he's stomping some perfectly good crop while walking _through_ the field _instead of using the road?!_ Surely there is abundance of food in Elysium/Spain/wherever he is supposed to be, and people like to grow it just for the sake of it? Then again, maybe there is a previously stomped path he's using.

[@Furzkampfbomber]

In fact, this scene depicts how he enters afterlife. I am pretty sure trampled crops will be of no concern here.

[@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675]

Replace the wheat with corn, build a baseball diamond and people will come Ray.

[@sheogoraththedaedricprince9675]

I know some people are thinking those tracks are from a car... Well they had wagons and chariots. Post and General Mills should have used this as a promotional opportunity.

[@epamaarainenroina220]

@@baronvonslambert If ripe crop falls down, it won't rise again. So there's more damage done than if it was earlier summer.

[@Xirpzy]

Walking through crops is done all the time, especially by animals like deer.

[@jamesduffy6518]

Wheat grows from the ground up, that means it starts near the ground and works its way up slowly

[@TheDsRequiem]

....yes?

[@highdough2712]

You should call this, “Nitpicking Theatre”.

[@deanhalter2524]

It's educational. If you don't like it, don't watch it. This isn't school.

[@sometimessnarky1642]

@@deanhalter2524 contradict yourself much? "It's educational" but also "it's not school. And the video guy is nitpicking a scene where the main character is walking through his version of Heaven.

[@THEPELADOMASTER]

@@deanhalter2524 the guy didn't even fucking understand the scene

[@billyandrew]

*OCD and How I Cope with It.*

[@therealpianofairy]

Quickly! Do the historical inaccuracies of Monty Python's: The Holy Grail!

[@cortster12]

And so, Lindybeige scrutinized the film, taking it apart piece by piece until nothing was left. One hour and thirty minutes later, he thrust his arms into the air and declared, "It is done." "What's the verdict?" you ask, dying to know each and every juicy inaccuracy he has uncovered. "How many inaccuracies are there?" He looks at you, his eyes dead and his stature slumped in defeat. "Everything."

[@VainerCactus0]

Best comment all day:)

[@Jason314159]

Well, for one thing they had coconuts. But the coconut's tropical, and Mercia's a temperate zone. How could they have got there? I suppose a swallow could have gripped the husk by its talons, but in order to maintain air-speed velocity...

[@eXtremeDR]

All Monty Python productions are historically highly accurate, especially their documentary The Holy Grail.

[@therealpianofairy]

***** I still cannot believe the recipe for the holy grenade has been lost to time.

[@Ofthehouseofbeards]

Sorry Lindybeige, you're not entirely accurate on this one. The two people in the background are Maximus' son and wife. They were quite dead when he got there. The armour he is wearing in this image is the armour he wears in the arena. This is heaven to him after he dies.

[@trolltalwar]

yes you are completely right, dont expect lindy beige to admit he is wrong or correct himself in any way though.

[@lukericker8325]

Chris A. Although his objections were all still correct. And in the movie this is his real world home too. Why would afterlife and/or hallucination from Maximus have modern wheat and paths? Nothing he said in this video was false.

[@mrdictator7030]

@@lukericker8325 the part where he says he travelled across europe in a day is

[@Anegor]

@@lukericker8325 because it looks ideal and beautiful maybe?

[@caravan3636]

@@Anegor Ah yes i imagine lots of cars in heaven

[@DingbatToast]

"What is wrong with this picture?" Is it that I'm still seeing in in my reccomendations after 9 years even though I saw in 9 years ago!

[@FlatWaterTV]

Fair enough. I like your style. Have you seen Pompeii where the road is two tiny lanes inside one larger concrete channel, with the little walkways and bridges in between? Any thoughts on them? I found them quite intriguing. It looks like carts (or something or someone) has carved the thinner tracks in, letting only certain constructions of vehicles pass through. Defensive purposes perhaps? Or do you have some idea? I’ve seen differing contemporary explanations but they didn’t ring true to me. Great video! Thank you so much. God bless you.

[@ihavetowait90daystochangem67]

“What’s wrong with this picture?” More like what’s wrong with KZbin recommendations, this was posted 7 years ago

[@tonimakkaroni182]

What's wrong with the recommendations? More like, what's wrong with these repetitive comments having to point out these pointless things.

[@abanomex9038]

Ikr

[@davidscottblacksmith]

Recommended 9 years ago now!

[@yugen]

*9

[@PeterBoddy]

Uhm, in that first image... HE'S DEAD ALREADY! He's returning home to his wife and son, WHO ARE ALSO DEAD.

[@xCorvus7x]

Exactly, he is returning _home._

[@Fede_uyz]

So heaven is set in 21st century spain?

[@rodrigonewow]

@@Fede_uyz The guy literally started the video saying he couldn't have traveled from germany to spain. Use your brain instead of trying to play the smart ass.

[@TK2692]

@@rodrigonewow Just because he started the video with that point doesn't mean that was the only point he made, which is what Fred Latin Medic was talking about.

[@rodrigonewow]

@@TK2692 But the first comment is only adressing the teleporting part. Not the other valid points. Missing the fact that he is dead is kinda of a big deal.

[@Kendricklamarglazer17]

I thought that scene was him seeing his family after dying

[@TheLunarMan]

Yea idk what he was on about with him traveling to Spain, I think he mixed something up there.

[@douglascox9996]

To be fair, that scene so adroitly skewered is part of a “dream” or “near death” sequence, not the actual scene when Maximus arrives wounded, delirious, and nearly dead, having ridden at least 2 horses to death. An even more cogent question about Maximus’s seemingly super highway motorcar speed arriving in Spain is the question of how the Emperor’s edict to slaughter Maximus’ family arrived even before he himself arrived. In the ancient world, long distances were typically most rapidly traveled by ship, weather and season permitting. Serious, untreated sword wounds often became infected, failing to close and continuing to suppurate blood-tinged serous fluids for extended periods. That was evidently the case, as the slave tasked with his care used maggot debridement to clean out the wound, saving Maximus’ life.

[@IsomerSoma]

He also gets a beared implying that he rode for days, which still might be rsther short, but it isn't that bad.

[@willherondale6367]

Who's gonna tell him it's representing Elysium?

[@pyroparagon8945]

Elysium has cars and wheat from the future?

[@amenthegreat3761]

@@pyroparagon8945 why not? If the gods created the world they might have cars as well

[@7superdaimajin]

Elysium is a Greek concept. Romans did not believe in an afterlife.

[@amenthegreat3761]

@@7superdaimajin Romans most certainly did believe in an afterlife.

[@amenthegreat3761]

@@7superdaimajin They believed mostly the same as the greeks, that the ferry man would carry you through the underworld and on to paradise. It's why in Roman funerals coins would be placed in the mouths of the dead.

[@merc4644]

isnt that scene suppose to be the afterlife?

[@kairosmvr1900]

Lawrence Howe beast

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

So in Roman afterlife they had cars, modern wheat...etc :D What a dumb comment mate.

[@merc4644]

Linus Magnus they could. you dont know the power of their gods.

[@kvarnerinfoTV]

Lawrence Howe You got me there 0_0

Linus Magnus what if their gods were just modern humans

[@WalaVeioMala]

10 years old and I still love this

[@eddiehourani7160]

Your ending just marvelous, the stillness of country sides!

[@purpleanex]

Pity it's a field of barley and not wheat.

[@andreatomassini202]

+purpleanex sure?

[@purpleanex]

Andrea Tomassini Yes.

[@andreatomassini202]

purpleanex mmh..good, because I cannot distingish between the two at this distance, to be honest I wonder how you can

[@purpleanex]

Andrea Tomassini Wheat doesn't form a velvet like texture that seems to ripple across the field in the wind, wheat is much coarser. Obviously you don't live in the countryside or you're blind...

[@andreatomassini202]

purpleanex Interesting, they always looked quite similar to me, but yeah, I don't live in the countryside.

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

Please make a series called "What's Wrong with Gladiator".

[@gerritvalkering1068]

+BlueMageWithSoulEdge please make a series "What's not wrong with Gladiator" since it will be much shorter

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

Gerrit Valkering Or make a series called "Why Hollywood Should Stop". That would be the shortest.

[@gerritvalkering1068]

really? I thought it would be quite long, so many reasons

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

Gerrit Valkering True, you could look at it that way, or see it as one answer: "'cause you suck at ART". From this everything else is just a derivative.

[@BlueMageWithSoulEdge]

***** Yeah, that's true. If you want to start with actual history then start with "Terminator" or "Robocop".

[@hsarhsaw2240]

And this is just one still frame. Wow bravo.

[@vincentleeadams]

It’s almost like this was filmed in the late 1990’s instead of, say, 180 AD.

[@GamePhysics]

That leaf is wrong.

[@wolfieinu]

THIS MEAT IS RAW oh no sorry that's Gordon Ramsay

[@GamePhysics]

Wolfie Inu I've been watching so many Gordon Ramsay videos lately. It's so much fun.

[@wolfieinu]

GamePhysics He's pretty merciless, it makes me try harder with cooking ... and I'm a bachelor who mostly just cooks for himself ... but Gordon Ramsay has intimidated me across the internet and on the opposite side of the world O_o

[@Iason29]

yes its upside down

[@budibausto]

yes, the top left corner one, definitely offside!

[@GenJotsu]

The bells clanging at the end was somewhat pleasant to hear. Very calming.

[@htf5555]

You must be part sheep.

[@okishira927]

@@htf5555 even cows have bells on them

[@CataciousAmogusevic]

@@htf5555 he must be Welsh

[@goodolboy5795]

So the movie isn't real?

[@LindaGailLamb.0808]

I can relate to that scene...😂😂.

[@MaybeGodwillsaveMe]

This guy is probably a workout to deal with in person.

[@alexandermartinez1318]

Lol i been subbed to you for like 1 - 2 years and im only seeing this now?! 😂 This was fantastic!

[@thomaswellstein4749]

Right now I'm imagining Russel Crow reaching all the way to the top of ancient wheat and sometimes jumping just so he can grab it.

[@germanvisitor2]

Would make the ending a lot more memorable.

[@jbagger331]

Rare thumbs down on this, he's not in Northern Germany, he's in Bohemia and Moravia fighting Marcomanni and Quadi and that's not Spain, it's a dream sequence, a vision of Elysium.

[@zombiesmurfsarequiteuseles8154]

While the movie says "Germania" in the intro (and the enemies speak modern German badly), Marcus Aurelius died in Pannonia, either Vindobona (today in Austria) or Sirmium (today in Serbia), given that Marcus Aurelius' death happens and Maximus flees from there, he would have an even longer way than from Bohemia or Moravia.

[@BaNaNaCeZeT]

Zombiesmurfsarequiteuseless he didnt die on the spot of the battle, or did he? If he didnt it could mean they traveled...

[@emenesu]

IT'S A JOKE. A JOKE! YOU EVER HEARD OF THAT WORD?!

[@Kamina-brah]

“Overthinking things: the video”

[@emenesu]

Remove the "over"

[@bigbankhank424]

I DIDNT KNOW I WAS COMING HERE TO HAVE ONE OF MY CHILDHOOD MOVIES BASHED OKAY 😩

[@TheRealFOSFOR]

I really enjoy these videos where you tell the mistakes in movies. And I learned a lot too. Or well.. realized a lot.. never thought of these things before.

[@Davidpromaster]

That last herding scene is so soothing

[@jamie896745]

+David S lol yes!

[@dminard1]

Can't wait for the 20 hour critical analysis of gladiator.

[@L1mJahey]

I just watched this movie again last night, and now this video is in my feed. I'm feeling a little paranoid right now!

[@Bald_and_Brown]

You know when Lindybeige says he’s going to ignore something, shit’s about to get crazy.

[@alexmaler]

I don't know why, but I found the sheep bit at the end quite soothing. "Gr, I'm Lindy, and this stuff is wrong! And now, sheep. Let them allow you to contemplate your place in the universe."

[@johnraltenburg9398]

congratulations on 1 million subscribers, lindybeige.

[@aisforamerica2185]

Hahaha didn't realize this was Lindy! Love your videos man

[@jamesgreen5298]

And here my first thought of what might be wrong with that picture is, "That guy's trespassing in someone's crops. Why isn't he being chased or yelled at by the farmers?"

[@stoutyyyy]

James Green it was his farm, that was his wife and kid on the road. Although why a farmer would be wandering aimlessly through his own wheat is curious.

[@jamesgreen5298]

Stephen M. Stouter Yeah, I wouldn't have known, I didn't watch the film in is entirety. I've seen 10 random minutes of it and was disinterested.

[@stoutyyyy]

James Green it's a good movie as a movie, it's just lacking historical accuracy.

[@annoythefish]

I 'member when your trip to turkey was recent and we got tons of interesting archelogy videos out of it why don't you take more trips to ancient civilization? I hear syria is lovely this time of year

[@BW-CZ]

Yeah, I heard these days in Syria, there's more ruins than normally!

[@el_ias2094]

The weather there is supposed to be the bomb apparently

[@Ianderification]

I hear Syria mostly consists of warehouses these days - here were houses, and there were houses

[@argenys8]

He's gonna have a blast

[@nbrod3n516]

"Whaaat iiiiis uuup Drama Alert Nation, I'm your host Killer Keeeeemstaaar, Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet's get riiiight into the neeeeeeeeeeeews. To start off with we have just got word that big youtuber by the name of Lindybeige has been beheaded by ISIS on national TV while filming footage for his channel."

[@ginosko_]

Can you imagine watching a movie with this guy?

[@albertbatfinder5240]

Poor Lindy. In other news, he has discovered certain elements of Vincent van Gogh’s “Starry Night” depict astronomical irregularities.

[@nastrael]

Only one problem with these observations. That isn't Spain, or even Earth for that matter. It's Elysium, the Afterlife. Throughout the movie, Russell Crowe is at Death's Door several times, and each time he has these hallucinations where he is walking through the Elysian Fields.

[@jonatannyvall9119]

Although, his version of Elysium is exactly the same as his real life before leaving with the army. That's a representation of his family, his house, his land, not a new fantasy version.

[@BarafuAlbino]

If they applied some fierce violet shade to all these shots, it would actually be more realistic then.

[@carlbates9110]

I doubt Elysium has cars, though.

[@daisychain8622]

Exactly. Why would he be hallucinating about things that only occur in the 21st century? That argument changes nothing.

[@TheBoldImperator]

Also you still wouldn't be dreaming about fields of modern wheat when you've been raised on a diet of spelt and emmer all your life.

[@patwest1815]

Marcus Aurelius spent most of his later years fighting the Marcomanni north of the Danube river in Austria, Czechia, and Slovakia. Minor point, and the ride would have been even worse.

[@Zett76]

You sure it would have been worse? Because crossing "Germany" from north to south would not only be without paved roads, but through quite some enemy territory, too.

[@patwest1815]

@@Zett76 Well, I wouldn't try crossing from north to south. If in northern Germania I would strike out due west and when reaching the empire turn left then the only serious mountains to deal with would be the Pyrenees. I think Lindy was having a slow day when he whipped up this one. In truth that ride would have been an epic adventure on it's own from Austria to Spain, in the winter, while fleeing from the Emperor's agents.

[@jhonnydasbr5367]

I needed this!

[@diggocombs4548]

This was actually a bit from when he is in a daydream... he was NOT in fact actually "present" there

[@Aksakal1917]

One of the main hypothesis of this video is "grass in the middle of road is a modern thing" . I was trying to be smart-ass and rebut it by referring Dutch paintings but more i search paintings, more i see roads without any grass in the middle. Good work Lindy, nice and smooth

[@marcelo90z]

TL;DR: everything is wrong with this picture

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

dude, your "wheat" is barley actually

[@sarahcollins190]

The road thing always gets me in historical films.

[@melloncollic]

Just a bit of nitpicking and I'm sure someone has pointed that out already, but just on the off chance no one has: He supposedly came from Vindobona on the river Danube maybe near todays capital of Austria, Vienna. That's not at all northern Germany. :D

[@acediadekay3793]

Well then he have to get around the alps too, doesn’t make his job much easier does it?

[@melloncollic]

@@acediadekay3793 First off all, if the author of the video is not just calling something wrong, but also provides a map and a route that is, criticism should be allowed. I mean he puts the starting marker of the journey roughly at were the German city of Schwerin is now located. That's way in the northeast of Germany and an area the Romans probably never touched at all. It's also 776 km (482 miles) from there to the Bodensee in southern Germany right at the foot of the alps but in a more direct way then his route suggests. It adds to the problem. And yes the Alps are one of the biggest obstacles, but the route on screen circumnavigates them as well as the Pyrenees on the modern border between France and Spain. And as I said, it's just a bit of nitpicking, same as the video itself. ;-)

[@avishalom2000lm]

But did the Romans call that region by Vindobona "Germania"? And did Marcus Aurelius ever campaign there?

[@melloncollic]

@@avishalom2000lm How does that matter? But according to Wikipedia: "Vindobona (from Gaulish windo- "white" and bona "base/bottom") was a Roman military camp on the site of the modern city of Vienna in Austria." And: Early references to Vindobona are made by the geographer Ptolemy in his Geographica and the historian Aurelius Victor, who recounts that emperor Marcus Aurelius died in Vindobona on 17 March 180 from an unknown illness while on a military campaign against invading Germanic tribes." So yeah. I'm pretty sure you could have looked this up yourself. ;-)

[@avishalom2000lm]

@@melloncollic if you must know, I was literally in my car on the way to work when I saw this video in my recommendations. Just shot off a quick comment, otherwise I would have looked it up myself. And the movie in the opening scene before the battle, gives the subtitle for the location as "Germania".

[@dg-hughes]

Hairstyles and teeth in movies often bug me you see some ancient guy with a modern hairstyle and capped perfect teeth.

[@boiledelephant]

+David Hughes Kate Beaton's comic strip "Peasant Romance" (google it) lampoons this beautifully. Premodern teeth would have been *terrible*.

[@philipians1635]

@@firstnamett4656 great name and picture :)

[@wulfherecyning1282]

@@firstnamett4656 Whoa, another ~here! Though I'm not sure a goat-army would be terribly concerning ;) Now an army of wolves? Terrifying!

[@AisteOsinskyte]

People had fairly good teeth before sugar consumption became more common (end of Medieval period)

[@daveb.4268]

Furthermore, if this is supposed to be "Elysium", that shouldn't be wheat, but, WEED! Endless rolling hills of Chronic 🇯🇲! With Snoop Dogg letting him through the pearly gates!

[@calebfuller4713]

But after the weed, you're gonna get the munchies, and you'll need a wheat field too, so you can bake a pizza!

[@whocares4583]

Cringe

[@TheDsRequiem]

Man you're cool

[@sugarnads]

Damnit 9 years and im still waiting for whats wrong with the rest of gladiator

[@derekrwatson346]

“On the road and see something much tastier than road” lol well done.

[@EzraB123]

British humour at it's finest

[@tracik1277]

Also proving that actual sheep are not ‘sheep’ because they make up their own minds what they want to do rather than follow orders. That’s why they need sheepdogs and whistles and prods and electric fences.

[@ThePeacemaker848]

The road is really the only significant thing that is wrong with the picture. The wheat..... I'd rather see a real wheat field instead of a CGI one in a movie, even if its a bit off.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

As for the road, I'm surprised that he didn't mention that the scale of the road is off, too. The ruts are for vehicles with wider tracks than chariots and most small wagons.

[@lamolambda8349]

It doesn't matter what you think cause Lindy is sooo smart and not a narcissist at all.

[@lamolambda8349]

@jocaguz18 behind blue eyes

[@NecroSage]

@@lamolambda8349 got a chuckle

[@rajastylez]

@LindyBeige please talk more about all the other shots wrong in Gladiator and other movies! I really enjoyed this haha.

[@MagSun]

That was very interesting. Never thought about it, but now you've mentioned it....

[@Datamike]

In all fairness, in the picture where Russell is walking in the field, it is suppose to be a hallucination or him entering the afterlife. But anyway... honestly, when I saw the thumbnail and the title, I immediately thought "well... it's really blue..."

[@octopusph.d7737]

yeah seriously lol

[@carson1429]

So there's modern cars, pesticides, and farming equipment

[@grandad1982]

without watching the video I reckon its the short modern wheat variety. now to find out.

[@grandad1982]

and nailed it

[@chrisQ1000]

*applause*

[@vic6820]

It just looks like dry grass to me, it's the strangest looking wheat I've ever seen.

[@rephill54]

Forgive me but I think this scene was meant to represent our hero entering Elysium, or Elysian Fields, to join his wife and son. Any comments?

[@tracik1277]

rephill54 That scene/set up was used three times in the film.

[@williamburton757]

That still isn't of central spain. It's the scene we get while he's dying in in the arena. That means it is supposed to be Elysium; a mythical place. The argument is invalid.

[@JonnyInfinite]

yeah it's a dream sequence. Who really cares anyway? It's like these 'film mistakes' people. Get a fucking life you tossers

[@williamburton757]

+JonnyInfinite They're the kind of people who feel the need to point out every error someone makes to distract from the fact that they're complete shit at everything except beingba know it all... all we can do is pity them

[@williamburton757]

+cole udall Cher has an oscar... just sayin'

[@JonnyInfinite]

+The Mango Baron if you use "butthurt" you've clearly been hurt in the butt yourself...

[@coleudall14]

+The Mango Baron calling me butthurt is a little hypocritical considering you're watching this video of some guy being very butthurt over some very small details which somehow account for the film being bad.

[@jang3975]

this are all good points but very minor considering that in this film we have really absurd things like: people with jeans cameramen in the colosseum gas tanks in the chariots... come on, gas tanks!

[@charleslindeman2169]

Jang Gas tanks are pretty old, they're older than you are.

[@anthonyrojas3601]

Lol yes, most people can forgive historical errors like roads that look like trucks have traveled on them and things like that but, gas tanks on chariots? Cmon, theres no excuse for that, next thing you know, they will say that the cell phone tower next to the Gladiators school was actually a bird nesting pole to collect eggs for breakfast. Lets get a bit more serious movie making and stop making sloppy movies!

[@phoelixiano]

I know this is from 2011, but jesus, i want more videos like this!

[@artfuldodger9312]

"a little bit critical" he says. I'm pleased you didn't take the time to examine the entire film. Personally, I don't care about the inaccuracies; it was a good film, well acted and a pleasure to watch.

[@Sigart]

... That's not wheat. It's barley or rye. Wheat doesn't have the hair thingies on the grain sacks.

[@purpleanex]

***** Exactly!

[@Vsor]

+Sigart I'm pretty sure many types of wheat have hairs, look up durum wheat. I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure identifying cereals involves closely inspecting the stems and leaves, not so much the head.

[@Sigart]

Prometheus XDD You may be right about that.

[@Carewolf]

Depends on which cereal it is. Oats are pretty easy to identify, and so is modern wheat, the rest takes a closer look.

[@wayhip]

they are called awns and yes common wheat does. identifying grasses is difficult, i've done it for a living, and often requires a hand lens and being able to key out the structure of the seed head, spikelets, and fluorescence. in one case there were 2 grasses in my area, one was invasive the other native. to tell the difference you had to notice a tiny ridge on the seed.

[@ChainsawGutsFuck]

And to be absolutely critical... this actual picture is completely immune to scrutiny because it takes place when Maximus is _dead_, and is walking through fields in Elysium to his _dead_ wife and son, the latter of which can be seen running up the road. Therefore you would literally have to _die_, visit Elysium, then return (or somehow send back the information) to confirm or debunk details in said picture. :)

[@ChrisParrishOutdoors]

+toy mangle I'm glad somebody pointed this out, it's Maximus' perfect homestead because he's in Elysium. Although his actual home looked very similar so the points still work if you just change the scene.

[@hedgeknight3194]

+toy mangle Why would Elysium be more like our world, today, then the world back then? it doesnt make sense, no one knew we would have cars, or pesticdes, so how the fuck someone would have made Elysium like this?

[@JSHADOWM]

+toy mangle Are you implying a Roman's elysium would have a road carved by modern cars?

[@ChainsawGutsFuck]

Mr. Grievous When I said "road", I didn't _literally mean a tarmac road_, I meant the same sort of Roman "road" he comes down when he finds his family crucified. And I didn't mention anything to do with the modern world... no idea where you're getting that!

[@ChainsawGutsFuck]

JSHADOWM No, i'm implying Romans had roads, and there's one in the picture to the left that his son's running down. Sure, it doesn't have a tarmac surface but for all intents and purposes it was a "road" used by horses, carts etc.

[@BJJMTF]

That ending is amazing

[@maartendevolder278]

Magnificently done old chap.

[@ironsidemedia]

Just a thought. In the movie, Marcus Aurelius is emperor. He spent his life primarily fighting against the Quadi, and Marcomanni tribes. These tribe inhabited mostly modern Austria, Bavaria and Bohemia. Maximus's legions are said to be stationed in Austria. So He probably wouldn't have galloped from northern Germany. But here's another thought. Though Maximus says he is a Spaniard, that doesn't necessarily mean his home was in Spain. (unless I'm forgetting something) What if his home was in northern Italy, or Pannonia? If he was fighting in northern Austria, and his home was one of those 2 locations, then it might be possible for him to reach his home in only a few days. As for the bleeding, wounds clot and stop bleeding, but they can also be reopened pretty easily. Rough riding on a horse at full speed might reopen old wounds. Maybe.

[@ArkadiBolschek]

It's specifically stated in the film that Maximus' estate is near Emerita Augusta (present day Mérida) so yup, it's all the way down to Spain. The Marcomanni did live around Austria, not northern Germany, but that hardly makes the trip any shorter. That was the most egregious blooper in the whole film: I remember everybody at the theatre chuckling and snorting at it because, really, only a five-year-old could possibly miss it. Maybe they assumed that American audiences wouldn't notice?

[@ironsidemedia]

Ahh, I don't remember where it said that. Sadly, most Americans aren't completely familiar with the geography of Europe.

[@grizzlygrizzle]

There's a bit of an obstacle in that route. The Alps.

[@runcibusarse-weasel964]

To paraphrase James Cameron's response to Neil DeGrasse Tyson's criticism of the night sky in "Titanic": Gladiator has, to date, made close to 670 million dollars at the box office. Just imagine how much more it would have made if they'd used the correct type of wheat in that one scene.

[@Siegbert85]

lol

[@chingadapistolero]

pedant extraordinaire! lol thank you lloyd love your work!

[@emanuelldaluzcaminha9122]

Well sir, I didn't know any of that and therefore didn't know what was wrong. Thank you for enlightening me.

[@murrayannandale]

Imagine making a video about something being historically inaccurate while you were actually wrong on most parts. Imagine that.

[@lolotaeja3911]

Exactly. Starting to find his bs cringeworthy.

[@forloop7713]

Where's he wrong

[@DingleCerri]

Martin S the still from the film he is focused on isn’t from the scene he claims it is from.

[@perfectlyfine1675]

You mean, he's wrong on one part out of many? Which doesn't fit the definition of "most"? If he's wrong about where the scene is set, it doesn't change the fact that he's correct about the wheat, pesticide, fences, roads and clothing.

[@shredmunds7660]

@Matsumoto Outo You saying he is wrong without examples is not very convincing.

[@DarrenLandrum]

And this is all before we even get to the teal and orange color grading...

[@MrKnight19971]

This year old video feels like it's from 2020. It aged so well.

[@Loner-Wolf]

At first I thought 'mate being a bit nit picky aren't you?' But than I thought 'wow my eyes have opened to the lies' I thank you sir.