History By Hollywood
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Submitted by benedicto on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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History By Hollywood
Is it dishonest how Hollywood is portraying history? Should we try to understand how Hollywood works in order to be able to assimilate what we are being shown? There is wide range of how history is portrayed by Hollywood. Some moviemakers are very objective and accurate about the historical episodes that they want to present to the public. Fictional movies, which are based on historical events, also can represent the current situations, customs and behavior of the moment. Nevertheless, there are movies that totally misinterpret history and use historical events as a way of entertainment, or reinforcement of nationalism and patriotism. Those movies, generally, show an unrealistic history.
For many people, movies are not reliable historical sources. According to them, many Hollywood movies that represent historical and real life events alter reality and show what is suitable for the director and the filmmaker's industry. Through this paper, the issue of Hollywood's reliability in portraying history will be analyzed.
Hollywood does not give realistic interpretations of history, but some of those interpretations can give people, students, and even historians good historical insights about customs and behaviors. Researching how history is portrayed by Hollywood will help historians and students to take advantage of Hollywood's historical representations.
"Cinematic History: a Defense of Hollywood," an article written by Robert Brent Toplin, suggests, "movies can communicate important ideas about the past." Toplin argues that there is a wrong approach of how historians interprets and treat historical films.
Toplin gives us insights into how movies should be approached. First, it is necessary to understand that filmmakers are influenced by profitability and entertainment. Because historical events are so fragmented, filmmakers "collapse several historical events into a few, condense the time sequence of event, focus on only a few moments...
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