[fr_freak]

Sure, but the people making the movie care more about making a successful movie than whether people know all the true facts about Mozart. They get paid to entertain, not to educate.

Of course they don't care about accuracy. That's the point. In fact, I would say inaccuracy is more what they're after. This is not a good thing. Moving pictures are the biggest propaganda machine ever invented.

[Boogieman]

Well, that’s the advance of technology. Go blame Gutenberg I guess, he started the arms race in entertainment.

[Borges]

You could say that about any artform. Shakespeare’s history plays were also unhistorical.