Quote Originally Posted by Xtiaan72
Come on! Saying the movie is pure entertainment and not a historical film is not true. You know that for many kids, going out to see this movie is as close as they will ever get to opening a history book on the subject. So by basing it on a historical event and then distorting that event to the point of mockery, they do their target audience a dis-service.
it is a a graphic novel adaptation, the film was striving to be a faithful representation of the graphic novel rather than a "historical" film. In this aim they were deffinately successful.

the historical element only comes in indirectly, as in the fact that it was based on a graphical novel which was loosely based on a historical event.

frank miller certainly wasnt attempting to portray history accurately, and I believe he says soemthing along those lines in the indtroduction to the graphic novel. He was more intersted in certain ideas and concepts which appealed to him, and he amplified those to make a intersting/entertaining graphic novel.