Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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QOTD: Historical Inaccuracy in Hollywood
Question of the Day:
Do you care about historical accuracy when watching a movie or TV show based on historical events?
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sort of... but the thing is, when i'm watching a historical fiction movie, i'm usually to caught up in the plot of the movie to think about its historical inaccuracy.
Yes and no. Small inconsistencies don't really bother me, it is a movie anyway. It's the big blatant "That's not how it happened!" errors that really piss me off... more so because my husband will end up ranting about it for an hour or so.
im not one to care too much
i mean it depends if it's just a movie i think it does not really matter, because your only going to think how good the movie was and how best the characters are portrayed..but, with tv shows that are meant to be on some point in history there should be historical relevance, that's what it's all about and it should be entertaining...there have been so many tv shows that have died in a couple of months...so i think that historical shows should be well historical...
Only if it's really blatant historical inaccuracies... and basically if they're obvious enough that I've managed to notice them they must be pretty bad.
the first time through, no, because i'm usually just watching for entertainment value. but if i sit and think about it, or watch it with a more analytical eye the next time, they kill me. scientific inaccuracies too. THERE IS NO SOUND IN SPACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
actually scientific inaccuracies irk me way more than historical ones. a lot of history has fictionalized parts anyway, due to whoever was the conquering side or a romantic story teller or just time fading away the details, so it's not as bad as when someone gets the science wrong (unless it's set in a time period when certain scientific achievements haven't been realized yet).
Very much so.
Yeah.
Tudors? Not so much.
More or less. I know it's just entertainment so I don't expect absolute accuracy. As long as I don't see someone listening to an iPod in medieval times or something I think I won't be that bothered.
One would figure if a TV series was "based on historical events", it should, by it's own definition, strive for accuracy.
id rather the show/movie be dramatic and fictionalized than boring and accurate...if i wanted the straight truth, id read a book or watch a documentary
It all depends on the show, with something like the Tudors, I've never watched it because it would irk me too much to see all the inaccuracies in it. I'd hate to think people watch the Tudors and actually think that was what Henry was like.
Then again I'm looking forward to seeing Young Victoria and no doubts that movie takes plenty of liberties for historcial accuracy. And I put up with the BBC's Robin Hood and as the fandom knows, it takes huge liberties in terms of historical accuracy, but we love our outlaws so we don't really care.
they're soo annoying. my thoughts are that if you have all those millions of dollars to create a film, you couldn't even have paid a historian to help out with the details?
Not really.
Sometimes. I can appreciate subtle differences that make the movie sell-able, but huge inaccuracies are offensive.
But fiction, most of the time, makes ordinary lives interesting! If they only showed us the truth of what happened back then I think I might be bored to tears.
Sometimes, not really too much unless its specifically trying to copy a true life story. I guess as long as it has some sort of linear sense to history then its ok by me.
I don't expect it too be absolutely accurate, but to some extent, yes. I mean, you don't want to be watching a movie about the French Revolution taking place in Mexico.
Yes.
I like that history gets fancified. I like historical fictions and I think movies/TV act like that a lot. We don't know everything that happened exactly so it's fun to see what spins people put on the real stories.