Influence of Movies on History
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The Influence of Movies on History
Throughout my movie-watching career, I have been mostly intrigued by movies depicting historical events. Personally, I believe that the Hollywood tendency to add on to history can have positive and negative effects on the movie and movie viewers. On the positive side adding a little flavor is always nice. Let's face it Mrs. Jones, Mr. Stearns does not make history very exciting. Such movies as Gettysburg tend to have this boring effect, because of its length and its total keeping to the real story. By adding the drama and action the producers of the movies create a more enjoyable movie for the audience.
On the other hand when the directors go overboard, almost creating a fiction tale, I begin to have a problem. For instance, my favorite movie of all time is sadly very misled from its true roots...