WHEN LEGEND BECOMES FACT - FILM THE LEGEND ? |
Neo
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Is this what cinema audiences would want ?
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Last edited by Neo on Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:46 pm; edited 3 times in total |
All Will Know The Names Of Heroes And Battlefields ! |
Neo
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'300' is a prime example how a film about a historical event is altered to appeal to the modern audiences. This will not appeal to military historians. If audiences leave the cinema knowing about Leonadis, the Spartans and the stand they made at Thermopalye - then the film has served it's purpose !
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Last edited by Neo on Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:44 pm; edited 1 time in total |
Sean Sweeney
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Well said.
'Zulu', the movie, is a prime example of stirring public interest in a long forgotten event, even though it did stray a bit from 'actual'. Again, the general audience would not have been aware, and were suitably entertained by Sirs Stanley and Michael et al I wonder what the result would have been given all the special effects available today ? Something to speculate on. Sean |
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shearer
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Cinema is about enterttainment, if it can make people think or get them to read about an event or search the internet for information so much the better, hoWever with modern history i.e. WW2 onwards it probaly best not to play fast and loose with the such as the film IN THE NAME OF THE FATTHER, which condensed too much in to the film, although it was very well acted.Oliver Stones JFK was another movie that played tricks with facts, but the magic bullet theory made it all worth while..
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