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Originally Posted by Alumiyum
Were I one of my ancestors I'd be at best popping out babies on a tiny family farm, picking lice out of my one dress every night, and plowing the field every morning while the menfolk were shooting each other on the battlefield. No one we know of was sipping lemonade in our family tree. But it's a movie that a lot of people grew up on, and it's nice to watch. I still enjoy watching it, as long as I get my bathroom break. Almost any movie about a period in history is selective...I know when I watch a movie about the middle ages where the characters are chivalrous and beautiful that in reality everyone smelled like rotting road kill and women were essentially livestock. I still enjoy the movie. *Shrug*.
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It's totally cool to enjoy the movie, I'm not saying not to. And to be able to watch it without the history filling your head all at the same time. I only get bothered when people go around romanticizing the era itself, often around here at least based on the movie or similar media.
But for me, it's inseparable.It's like the arrow in the FedEx logo. Not everyone sees it, but because I do see it, I cannot un-see.