the worlds full of idiots.Best you can do is try not to BE one
this guy sounds real young and i doubt hes had proper history lessons yet.Hell it took me years to discover the truth about the war and im STILL learning new stuff all the time.Cant blamea wet behind the ears youngster for getting the wrong impression.When we are young we pick up our info mostly from movies!! This is why its SO wrong to portray total nonsense on them.Its a poerfull medium and should be recognised as such.
typical recent examples?
braveheart
U571
Pearl harbour
William wallace the peacefull man embittered by the death of this love fighting the english oppressors.Finally dieing the true hero with a cry of Freedom!!. Well im half english half scottish and unfortunately this film although a great movie is absolutely full of roadkill.Ask a 10 year old about that part of history? he'll almost recount the script word for word instead of reading the actual history.He he the real william wallace was a warrior and as much a murderer and killer as the English he fought.
U571. The depiction of the brave american crew who capture the enigma allowing the allies to crack the codes and win the war!.
Again the real story is fantastic and makes for a great movie.But its total BS again.A British destroyer captured it, the codes were broken at bletchly park in the UK and shared with the US.You guys broke the Japanese codes and should have made a damn film about that.Can you imagine if the English made a movie saying we cracked that and saved your tulips from them? again ask a kid who found the enigma machine and he recounts it as the film did.Only later as he learns the real event will he change his veiws.
Pearl harbour? well if ever there was a film that diminished the real bravery of those men and turned what was one of the most important events of the twentieth century into a farce of nonsense ive never seen it! Those fights in the aircrafts! Still again Fantastic effects but ruined by the drivel and crap in the story told.This was history and any change to it is like spitting on the graves of those brave men who died in it.
As you can see i get really worke up on this sort of thing and the reason? well just read what that kid said.It takes years of education and an open mind(hopefully) to really undo what this sort of thing portrays.
Hey its not the end of the world and yes this is meant to be oure entertainment but why use the real events at all? why? because the REAL events fascinate people and draws in the BUCKS.
I say make the movie truthfull however painfull.The drama of the real events are far more 'entertaining' and facinating than some fairy tale.
now saving private ryan, although 'based' on a true event I think handled the events really well.We saw the horror of the landings.We felt the emotion of the soldiers.Saw weaknesses, bitterness.Although not 'realistic' in many places it at least attempted and i think to a good extent succeeded to impart some real feelings and emotions.It never tried to put tom hanks into anyhing approaching the rediculous hero type we saw in pearl harbour.
Das boot again, a fantastic film because it showed how desperate the situation really was.Showed that luck played its role and showed again the waste of war.another great movie.
compare this to U571 lol.
its a shame we have such nonsense in movies.I can understand weaving a fairy tale love affair into a film based around real events.but not a fairy tale based around lies and well, almost propaganda and sometimes biggotted propaganda in bravehearts case.
