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MadHound

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5. Hollywood and history are an anathema to each other,

Reply to another_liberal (Original post)

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 02:18 PM

Feb 2013

Hollywood wants to tell a great, best selling story, and sacrifices historical accuracy every single time. About the best that Hollywood can aspire to in regards to history is giving a person a sense of what it would be like to live in a particular time period or another, and frequently it gets even that wrong.

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ZD30: Hollywood does history. [View all] another_liberal Feb 2013 OP

And, my takeaway of teh movie was the opposite obamanut2012 Feb 2013 #1

Just the fact . . . another_liberal Feb 2013 #2

In general, I tend to reject arguments that are based on framing others as too stupid to know that Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #3

A lack of knowledge is ignorance, not "stupidity." another_liberal Feb 2013 #4

Hollywood and history are an anathema to each other, MadHound Feb 2013 #5

Well put. another_liberal Feb 2013 #6