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Do you think historical accuracy matters much in modern entertainment
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RE: Do you think historical accuracy matters much in modern entertainment
(September 17, 2022 at 7:56 pm)Tomato Wrote: If it's to be historically accurate, wouldn't it then be called a boring documentary?

No.   Documentary talks about history.   Historically accurate entertainment puts a entertaining story plausible given its premise and the historic place and time in which it is set into a depiction of that historic setting which would not give the audience too many wrong ideas of the that period of history was really like.

It is especially problematic when fictions seeks to lend fraudulent legitimacy to what otherwise might have been good ideas for the present by pretending it did work great in the past or it could have worked well in the past. 

Knowing conditions under which a great idea would not work is just as important as knowing why the idea sounds great.
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RE: Do you think historical accuracy matters much in modern entertainment - by Anomalocaris - September 17, 2022 at 9:22 pm

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