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I'm no fan of Dick, but for once I agree with the Daily Mail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2709892/In-museum-far-far-away-Anger-reconstruction-Richard-III-s-armour-looks-like-STAR-WARS-stormtrooper.html It's very funny and absurd. But it shows how modern myths get channelled and projected back into reality. Actually, apart from the (fairly obviously DELIBERATE) armour colour-scheme, they've also cocked up on the helmet. The 'sallet' as that type of hat is called should sit further forward on the 'Mentenniere' (the big neck-bowl). This guy looks like the bald eagle from the Muppets, but with a huge underbite. Plus the Star Wars colour scheme makes the mentenniere look like a toilet bowl. I'm sure Lucas et al are falling about in paroxysms.
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My main thrust in posting this was the funny Star Wars connection. You just know the designers were having a laugh and did it deliberately... white on black as in the films. Handled the wrong way, a suit of armour can end up like a showroom car. As regards Dicky, well, no amount of revisionism cancels out the murder of his nephews and his broken promise to his own brother to act as their protector. Nice he wasn't. The 'intuition' thing made me wonder. When the Beeb aired their first TV documentary (then they revised it to bring out the scientific credentials) I at first thought the whole thing a tourism ploy, and doubted it all. I was particularly tickled by the reconstructed Dicky's apparent resemblance to the young Gavin Esler from Newsnight, if anyone remembers what he used to look like! At least one of the docus is still on YouTube. Westminster, like St. Paul's, tends to be now for the great and good. The problems with the tastelessness stem more from a sort of tacky 'visitor's centre' outlook nowadays that's easily more about the showcasing of the digital possibilities of the medium than the thing they try to educate about. Medium rather than message. The whole point of the sterile white armour of the stormtroopers was that they were clinical fascists and 'anonyomous' drones. That's not the colourful, if ruthless aesthetic of 15th Century noblemen. Again, the public are patronised. What about a Henry VII item with a light-sabre?
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