LBJer
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« on: April 15, 2022, 10:56:56 PM » |
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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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