Quote Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi View Post
Lemur, you make it sound as though Hollywood is full of historically accurate, factual accounts of real world events and this will be the deviation. ;) I can't even go see movies about so called "history" because they are so full of made up things and forced-in love stories superimposed over the events that I become ill. (Pearl Harbor anyone?)

It bugs me even when it is distant history and/or has few "hard source" accounts to base it on. I always feel like, if you're just going to make up a story... get an original script, completely fiction, and produce that instead. I mean, I may have been in the 1% of the audience who saw "Troy" and had actually read the old Homeric epics, for example... but I was like what?! Agamemnon died when he returned home! And Achilles brought his beloved "cousin" to war with him? Oh my god, I know why they changed that, but that's ghetto! I was having a little paroxysm. Hahaha.
Yeah, too right! Like when I went to see that Shakespeare dude, boy was that rubbish history! Richard III was a hunchback would you believe, and don't get me started on Cymbeline. I felt so cheated that he made that stuff up.

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In other words, authors have always used historical events as a basis for their work. By all means criticise a film for being awful, but not that it is historically inaccurate.