Bias In Kingdom Of Heaven

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Kingdom of Heaven is a movie representation of the 3rd crusade, when the Christians and Muslims fought to take control of the Holy City, Jerusalem. The movie is meant to represent a fair and accurate version of the crusade but is there bias in the movie against a religious group? The director portrays the Christians as being more violent, less unified, and more brutal than the Muslims. The Muslims are not represented as much as the Christians, allowing for unfair representation of the Christian religion. At the beginning of the movie, in France 1184, one branch of Christianity fought the internally, in order to avenge the death of a priest by trying to capture one of their members, the blacksmith. The blacksmith Balian, driven by fury, killed

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