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Originally posted by Lady Pi Phi
LOL, I had this same conversation with my parents last night. You will never find 100% accuarcy in Hollywood. There movie makers, not historians. They're out to make a buck. I think if you came away from the film entertained, then they did their job.
It might even inspire someone to educate themselves on the crusades...maybe from more accurate sources.
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Very valid point, with which I readily agree.
The problem is that too many people don't understand this. They think what they see in a medical or courtroom TV show or movie is how it really is. They watch a "Kingdom of Heaven" and think it
is history. They don't get the Hollywood is in the story-telling (and money-making) business, not the history-telling business.
I can suspend my disbelief as easily as the next person and enjoy a good movie where history has been sacrified for a good story. It sticks in my craw a little more where, as in "Kingdom of Heaven," history hasn't just been sacrificed for a good story but for political correctness and imposition of a 21st Century mindset on 12th Century people. It also sticks in my craw a little more when the filmaker does this and still claims that the movie is historically faithful.
Doesn't mean at al that lI won't enjoy the movie. But I will argue that the movie should be seen as fiction and not as history.
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