I've seen a common opinion among "theatre" types that when you're adapting something, whatever the source material was for whatever you were adapting is little more than a prop for your own story. They'll even take it further claiming that the source materialshould be changed because people already know the source material and they want a new story. And they continue saying this shit no matter how many times it's proven wrong.
But they cross a line when they apply this attitude to history. It's no longer you making a story worse with your own little dipshit innovations. At that point, you are spreading misinformation. You are actively deceiving the public. This should be banned or, at the very least, the work must be titled and labeled in such a way as to make it clear that it is a fanciful work of fiction and in no way representative of history. You shouldn't be able to deceive the public, "artistic" or not.
>>665554This motherfucker doesn't like pissing off fascists, everyone laugh at this stupid idiot.
It's the fascistas being contrarian you silly dumb dumb
>>665467>And they continue saying this shit no matter how many times it's proven wrong. What do you mean by this? When has it been
proven wrong? How does one prove such a thing wrong?
>>665590The vast majority of movie adaptations. It's the rule, not the exception, that that book readers do not like the movie adaptations of the book, and it is always specifically for changes. This alone would go against the idea that book readers want a new story. It would be easier to name when this
didn't happen.
>>665597You quoted the part about adapting books.
With history, it doesn't matter what the audiences think. A lie isn't less bad because it's an entertaining lie.
>>665573>You were saying that you need to like works that are intentionally historically inaccurate if their particular historical inaccurate makes fascists mad. And if you don't, that makes you a fascist, who are the real contrarians.Oh, you got me wrong.
>>665563 is my first post ITT, I'm not op. I just think it's okay to think people who've actively made the lives of people close to me harder/ended them getting pissed off is funny.
>>665590The Hobbit
I, Robot
The Centenial Man
The Foundation
The most recent Fahrenheit 451 film
>>667564That doesn't matter. Misinforming people isn't okay because they're okay with being misinformed.
Though I would disagree with this. Hollywood likes to portray their films as good faith representations of the past for a reason. It's the same reason they like to plaster "INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY" on their films. They know audiences would be turned off if they knew it was bullshit.
>>667587You're posting in this thread, so you care enough to think that it is permissible.
They could easily have done an entirely fictionalized account. They chose not to because they wanted the legitimacy that comes with their depiction being a supposedly "true story."
I get that "theatre" types then do this doublethink where they like to act like history is just a prop and everyone knows this, but then they can never explain why they don't just do an entirely fictionalized account.
>>668021Wanting historical accuracy isn't idpol.
In fact, I would argue that idpol is one of the forces that has pushed for historical inaccuracy. It goes both ways, too. Like, historically cowboys were a pretty diverse bunch, but white idpol insisted that they all be portrayed as white.
>>667979Yes. Unfortunately, fakery can get pretty popular.
There is justice in this world, though. This book went from a national sensation to a mega-flop when it was outed as a lie.
They even had the raw nerve to try to make a movie out of it after it was exploded. It had a box office of $80,000. Oof.
>>668970That's just the thing. History isn't fiction.
Whatever excuses you can make for defiling a fictional work in a supposed adaptation, you cannot make when creating a historical piece. You have officially moved into the realm of disinformation and there is no excuse that changes that.
>>668981Hollywood films will misinform people regardless of if I watch them or ignore them.
A social ill isn't solved by ignoring it.
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