Whenever we see cannon portrayed in films, often times it is a very weak showing. There is a loud 'bang!' sure, and a bit of smoke, but there isn't really a feeling of genuine force behind them. Their horrific effects are usually limited to a clump of men simply falling to the ground, silent in death besides a groan here and there.
The reality of artillery in the Long 18th Century, of the cast-iron round shot which these guns fired, is far different and infinitely more brutal. Here, in Culloden (1964) we see a much more genuine portrayal of the chaos, the cacophony, and the sheer hell that these cannon spewed on the Early Modern battlefield. They were, after all, the Final Argument of Kings. -
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