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  Do minor inaccuracies about politics/history in news, movies or TV shows bother you? (search mode)
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LBJer
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« on: April 15, 2022, 10:56:56 PM »

Like with many other things, for me it's a matter of degree.  It's unrealistic to expect even the work of professional historians or other experts to be 100% accurate, let alone movies and TV shows.  However, I think there's a limit.  For example, the movie Braveheart is so ludicrously inaccurate that I think it would have been far better for Mel Gibson to make a movie and say that it was merely inspired by William Wallace's life, and give the lead character a different name, than to have it supposedly be about Wallace himself.  As it is, some of the inaccuracies are of such magnitude that it would be like making a movie about the Iraq War in 2700 in which George W. Bush attacks Iraq because he learns that Laura is having an affair with Saddam Hussein! 
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