The recent— ALAMO!?!
With Billy Bob Thornton was As
Accurate as could be.
A Western?
Dang close to it .
What you said is a major issue. There are a lot of people who learn history from movies.
I remember being so shocked that I involuntarily burst out laughing after seeing “Apollo 13”. The lights came on, we were walking out, and there was a teenage couple in front of us and I heard the girl say: “I was really glad the movie ended the way it did!”
Now “Apollo 13” isn’t a bad movie from a factual perspective, it just blew me away that she somehow didn’t seem to know it was a real event!
Even worse was just a few days ago...I was wearing my ship’s hat from my Navy days, and a young kid (maybe 16) who was an employee at the hardware store came over and asked about the hat. He was a real nice, well behaved kid...he looked clean cut, short hair, no tats or piercings, and was very polite.
In the course of the discussion, he asked me when Pearl Harbor was. He was a very nice and earnest kid, but that really shook me!
***often of particular items being a “historic fact”.***
That would be the voice over of Custer hoping to be nominated for President of the United States that year. Problem is, Rutherford B Hayes had been nominated a week before.
This nonsense came from a book in the 1960s on Custer by Mari Sandoz. I read that book.
I’ve met people who thought Little Big Man was historically correct. What fun telling them the truth. Yes, I have read a huge amount on the Indian Wars at that time.