I like Far Eastern "flying people" films. They sometimes get called "historical drama" - I have a DVD of "The Swordsman" ( 笑傲江湖 ) ( I think - it might be an entirely different Wu XIa film, but the principle is the same ), based on a novel by Jin Yong ( or the anglicised "Louis Cha" ), the most important author of the 20th Century, where amongst the extras there is an interview with one of the actresses ( who all the characters mistake for a "boy", gender confusion is an integral element of these films, even though it is entirely obvious that it is a female trying to pass as male ) and she boldly claims "Who is to say that people didn't fly back then? We weren't there, we can't prove that people didn't fly back then".
Exactly.