[grania]

Good historical drama is true to the facts as known, and utilizes extensive research to get them right. In a movie, the surroundings...architecture, clothing, style, music are historically accurate. The only fiction should be where the facts are unknown and any dialogue or representations should be a reasonable interpretation of what happened and definitely not contradict what is known about the era and the history.

THE KING'S SPEECH did that and it's a wonderful movie. THE GREAT GATSBY should've tried to accurately portray the era; instead it was ruined with JayZ music.

The last thing we need now with the climate in the US is a movie that inaccurately vilifies white people.

[Salamander]

“The last thing we need now with the climate in the US is a movie that inaccurately vilifies white people.”

Just a little more of that hopey-changey “fundamental transformation”.

[Borges]

Where did you get all those ‘rules’? Shakespeare’s History plays certainly don’t follow them. Neither does ‘The Three Musketeers’. Or Amadeus. ‘The Scarlet Letter’ is a great novel but is a highly inaccurate portrait of the Puritans. As for ‘The Great Gatsby’ with Jay Z music I humbly direct you to the 1944 film ‘Meet Me in St Louis’, set in 1904 but features Judy Garland singing The Trolley Song...a 1940s style big band number.