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Such and Such?

Posted by jamesgarvin (A) on November 8, 2007 at 07:44:27

In Reply to: I especially like when someone assumes a poster is such and such and then posted by tinear on November 8, 2007 at 04:53:41:

Not sure what such and such is. Is that like yada yada? Sorry, I'm not smart enough to follow that extensive vocabulary. I never wrote about a "carbon copy." I assumed you would be smart enough to figure out the point of my post. I gave you too much credit. For that, I apologize.

In a film based upon real events, I expect a film maker to take some liberties. I assume Mel Gibson did it with Passion of the Christ, because, well, everyone who was there was dead, and I do not trust those that tell me God commuicates with them. So I expect some liberties.

The question, dear Tinman, is not whether a filmmaker, should take some liberties, and they do, but why. Are they taking some liberties because they have no choice, i.e. that an historical record is missing some fact. Or are they taking a liberty to make the film more "exciting" to the audience, knowing the real story. Case in point is the Disney film "Iron Will", based upon true events. In the film, the lad wins the race. In real life, he never even finished.

You often spend too much time here critisizing viewers who are lazy, and expect the filmmaker to hand them everything. Here, I argue that the filmmaker should present a "true story" as true as possible without embellishing the truth to make the facts seem more exciting, in other words, let the audience come to them, and you have an issue. Grits is right. You just like to argue.

"Artists don't copy, they interpret."

Obviously. Again, the issue, which you fail to understand, is not whether they interpret, but how, and why. If an artist draws a real horse to look like a dog, it is no longer a horse, but rather a dog, regardless of what the subject looked like.

"You seem to confuse fiction films with documentaries."

You confuse fiction films with non-fiction. Perhaps you meant to write that I confuse dramatic films with documentaries. Dramatic films can be fiction, or non-fiction. Documentaries are generally non-fiction, except in Michael Moore's case, in which case they can also be be fiction.

Edits: 11/08/07 11/08/07

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