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Subject:Re: Forget Flyboys, Check this out...
Posted by: HeadMMoid - 19years 79days ago.
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Tornade wrote:
HeadMMoid wrote:
kduke wrote:
Same producer as "The Patriot" and "Independence Day," Both fantasy pieces with not much more history in the former than in the latter. Not a good sign.


That is all true, but, in my opinion, the real problem with films like "The Patriot" isn't the messed up history, it is the producers and actors like Mel Gibson actively claiming that the movie depicts history. "The Patriot" isn't a bad movie, it just isn't history.


there are so many film that claim to depict history or historical events...that is perhaps true since so few of them claim to ACCURATELY depict historical events

if Hollywood is to be believed it was the Americans who swept the North Atlantic of the Nazi submarines...Americans who won the Battle of Britain...Americans who won the battles for North Africa...and Americans alone who fought their way up the Italian penninsula and Americans alone who stormed the beaches in Normandy

i still love a good action film about the war...but i just dont believe it when they try to make me believe that it is based solely on historical events...knowing in general the historical events that they have played so loosely with

next we will have Michael Moore telling us what great people the Nazis really were and that Hitler and his crew were just misunderstood and needed love and understanding...in much the same vein that the CBC here in Canada managed to produce a documentary that painted the Allied flyers who daily risked their lives against the Nazis as little more than barbarian terrorist...it never fails to disgust me when i know of people who are determined to rewrite history to advance their own political agendas and ideas

my two cents for dispersal
MJC


The Americans didn't win the Battle of Britain? And do all those other thing? OMG!!!

Seriously ... We also need to remember when and why each of the films was made. Great Humphrey Bogart movies such as "Sahara" and "Action in the North Atlantic" were for wartime consumption. Of couse they were going to make the American personal out to be heroes, and only had a limited connection to real events. At the time the movies could not have been made if they depicted reality. But, the makers knew that they were making emotional films. Most importantly, they didn't sell their movies as true "history".

Today, Hollywood has discovered that if you tack the work "history" on to a movie, you can get a lot of extra (and free) advertising, and increase your viewers.

The best review of a "historical" movie I ever heard was for U-571. When asked as part of a movie review program if U-571 was history or Hollywood, a former U-Boat commander said instead something to the effect of; "They got one thing right. There were U-boats in the North Atlantic during World War II."

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