Troy, Lord of the Rings, and Solomon Kane used to illustrate just how wrong Hollywood can get things.
This one may seem to many like a bit of a fun-dampener. Indeed, I'm not keen on my own tone of voice towards the end of the Two Towers section. It needs to be said, though, that modern film makers clearly do not use ancient fuel sources for their fires. Modern gas (by which I mean gas as distinct from liquid fuels) and petrol (called, confusingly, 'gas' as well in the USA) do not burn as ancient fuels did. The main example I show is a scene from Troy which is an orgy of exploding huts, and men who burst alight when a burning thing comes near them. Fire takes a while to take hold. If you held a burning medieval torch to the leg of a wooden watchtower for a while, then after a bit you would achieve a scorch mark on the wood. In the movies, the watchtower would probably explode.
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