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Originally Posted by unclejack  The point is that when you make a movie about someone if you have any respect for the memory of that person at all you won't go to great lengths to distort their image into something they weren't and make them out to be something more entertaining for you but ultimately unloyal to the memory of the real life person. |
On that one, though... that's something that has been the case with not only drama but fiction since the earliest examples of tales (other than biographies) about any famous figure. They do take on a mythic stature in the mind, and so the truth gets increasingly distorted. Which, as I said, I don't mind if it's presented as a piece of fiction using these historical personages... that's fine. But it does irk me when they make claims to being faithful to the facts and then completely ignore them in favor of something more visually or dramatically suitable to the format....