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The White CouncilRe: Staying true to Braveheart??Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Staying true to Braveheart??Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Dave aka Don Quixote on April 23, 2000 at 07:16:02 In Reply to: Re: Staying true to Braveheart?? posted by Anardil on April 22, 2000 at 18:48:22:
: There's a reason for that, and it has nothing to do with Braveheart. Same goes for Americans, and every other group that is vilified. But I don't think that's worth discussing here. : The point is, people want to see stories "based" on actual events. Otherwise its boring. What's so bad about some Scotsman wanting to identify with William Wallace, even a fictionalized William Wallace? There aren't many people in real history who make good icons, so we have to invent them. : Its not like the beginning of Braveheart says "the following is complete and utter truth from start to finish, we know because we invented a time machine and went back and filmed it all as it happened." I think most audiences are aware of that. Its entertainment. If you want to be a bit nationalistic about it, fine. Certainly the English have be known to do that from time to time. : If you want to outlaw all movies based on real events, that means no more movies based on WWII, none on the Roman Empire, none on the Holocaust, none on anything that has ever happened. IMO that is potentially far more dangerous than showing fictionalized treatments of real events. At least with movies based on the past history stays in the social consciousness. We may all be enlightened here and watch the History Channel every night but most people don't. Better that people get their history from Saving Private Ryan than ask "World War II? What's that?", don't you think? Fair comment, and I fear I have let a small amount of Nationalism cloud my judgement on this one. I agree yes, it is better that people get a grasp of history as you say, although there are other ww2 films that would be a better role model than Saving Private Ryan IMHO Don Q
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