Ya know what pisses me off?

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Ya know what pisses me off?
Topic Started: Jul 30 2009, 06:32 AM (82 Views)
Laughing Gravy	Jul 30 2009, 06:32 AM Post #1
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,075 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	When somebody writes a goddamn "true history" book that is fictional, in order to get it made into a movie. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/movies/30jones.html?_r=1&hpw It reminds me of when the History Channel showed a documentary purporting that Lyndon Johnson was behind JFK's assassination. Some people should be ashamed of themselves.



panzer the great & terrible	Aug 9 2009, 09:22 AM Post #2
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,376 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	Just as bad is a "true history" movie that's 90% false, like Oliver Stone's movies.
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Laughing Gravy	Aug 9 2009, 11:15 AM Post #3
Revered in the UK Posts: 11,075 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: August 31, 2005	I don't think it's just as bad. A bad movie is a bad movie; JFK is a bad movie. The Buddy Holly Story, which is probably I'd estimate 60% false, is still a good movie. I dunno, maybe cinema - with a history of "sexing up" reality for the audience - has a built-in level of disbelief. It can still behave abhorantly - as JFK did and as, say, Lean on Me did (that's the movie with Denzel Washington as Joe Clark, the high school teacher who used a baseball bat to raise test scores and "save his school"; test scores did not increase in real as opposed to reel life). But to write a history book that is patently false because it would make a better movie? That is worse than muddy ground, that is a ground full of fertilizer. What kind of publishing company would publish a "non-fiction" book that it knew to be false?



panzer the great & terrible	Aug 9 2009, 08:17 PM Post #4
Mouth Breather Posts: 10,376 Group: Members Member #13 Joined: September 3, 2005	An excellent point, but JFK may be worse for us in the long run. Lying about history in a movie should have financial consequences, if nothing else. It's just evil.
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