At 09:24 PM 4/23/2006, you wrote:
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 17:59:41 -0700
From: Lavolta Press <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Historical Films
> The problem, as I said, "is when audiences believe what they see in
> films". The solution to that is to try to get more people to understand
> the nature of films -- such as that they are inevitably inaccurate --
> and thus the appropriate and inappropriate uses of films, and to stop
> using them inappropriately, specifically, to stop using them as if they
> were reliable sources of historical information.
I think most modern people have both a healthy skeptism about
advertising, and an awareness that fiction (including films) is not reality.
Is that why so many people think that the DaVinci Code is real
history? or has even a passing resemblance to real history? I think
most people really don't have a clue and don't care to have one.
Pierre
"Those Who Fail To Learn History
Are Doomed to Repeat It;
Those Who Fail To Learn History Correctly --
Why They Are Simply Doomed.
Achemdro'hm
"The Illusion of Historical Fact"
-- C.Y. 4971
Andromeda
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