Historical Inaccuracies

3. Describe at least one connection between the reading and topics from outside class (other classes, news stories you’ve seen, etc.)?

Saving Private Ryan is a film that takes place in WWII and the main conflict is trying to bring back Private Ryan back safely. In the film many battles go on and we get to see first hand through the main character Captain Miller how gruesome it got. First few scenes we get a good look at how hard it is going to be for men fighting. D-Day June 6, 1944 Normandy, France was the first battle, and in the scene that takes place here is for the most part accurate. Portrayal of the Invasion of Normandy seems to be very similar to the actual event. During the real battle, the plan was for the Ranger companies to be the first wave with the goal of taking over Pointe-du-Hoc and taking the “higher ground.” The soldiers stormed Omaha Beach and that is when the horrors of war began. Similarly the movie shows the men arriving on the LCVPs and storming the beach, and also suffering heavy casualties at the same time.

Did you know people do not think if the story from history movie is a truly based on real history or filled with fiction? Almost every history movie contains some kind of fiction in it to make it a great story and to keep the audience's entertained. For example, the movie called “The Patriot” which was the American Revolution had happen. The movie has some historical accuracy but there are some historical inaccuracies also.

2. What do you think that the purpose of college ought to be and how does your perspective relate to the author’s perspective?

11. “Once a week we had current events, each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper, absorb its contents, and reveal them to the class.”

Although many historical filmmakers alter some events and use fiction as a tool in providing an accurate historical representation, the makers of “The

In the society that we live in, truth is often twisted, hidden, or lost due to a variety of reasons. By changing the truth, you are able to position the responders, into feeling particular emotions. Have you ever told a small white lie to protect the feelings of someone? Or maybe exaggerated a story to make it seem more funny? These techniques are often used by directors and filmmakers to make their movie more interesting. The film The Hurricane, based on Rubin Carter, a boxer who was sent to prison for allegedly committing a triple murder that he did not commit, would show factual events of his lifetime, right? The director Norman Jewison, in fact changed and twisted several events in order to manipulate and persuade the audience to feel empathy

This essay is going to show the development with four eras of the correctional system. The four eras that will be discussed with be: 1800, 1960, 1980 and 2000. For each era we will go over the description of the holding or monitoring of the offenders, the treatment and punishment of the offenders and the influences of the particular era on today’s correctional system. The conclusion will discuss the most beneficial era to the correctional system, as well as, recommendations for ways in which the current correctional system could be improved upon.

Could it be due to artistic license, which is, their freedom to create a piece of writing based on their interpretations of history? Do we take into account how much knowledge we have of the historical piece prior to watching the movie? With this in mind, it allows for the above stated questions to be answered, but does this artistic license harm or help our understanding of history? For example, in “Saving Private Ryan,” the author explains that the movie depicts the German army as a uniformly expert and professional force. However, the reality was, “Due to the loss sustained by the Soviet Union, the Normandy defense was made up of old men, boys, or conscripted Soldiers from Poland or the Soviet Union,” but why would they change these facts? The reason: many of these Soldiers would simply surrender as soon as they encountered the American Soldier. Does the historical inaccuracies harm or help our understanding of past events and historical figures? In my opinion, it does not. As the Author goes on to explain, “Saving Private Ryan is not a fully accurate representation of the attack on Omaha Beach, but it depict – realistically and memorably – how Soldiers conferred meaning on the heedless calculus of modern warfare.” The screen writers or director took artistic license of a pretty historic moment and altered a few things to pay honor to those who served World War II. I don’t

In Telling the Truth About History, three historians discuss how the expanded skepticism and the position that relativism has reduced our capacity to really know and to expound on the past. The book talks about the written work of history and how individuals are battling with the issues of what is “truth.” It likewise examines the post-modernist development and how future historians

7) Did you notice anything about the way in which this essay was written that seems to contradict essay “rules” you have been taught in the past? If so, explain

Good Afternoon ladies and gentlemen, I will be the first negative speaker for tonight, and I will be here to argue that Hollywood movies should not be true to history, and here are my reasons why. When producers of a movie are creating a film they do not have enough time to do research on the history of the event that they are basing their movie off, most Hollywood movies take a minimum of 6 months to be ready for production and then after that it takes them about 50 days to film, but then if the producers had to research the history that they have to incorporate into their film it would take them many more months to complete that film and do you want to have to work on one project for a lot longer than you have to just to make it historically

This is because the cinematic licence means that films are made as a way to make money and not to give factual information. Films like Zulu made minor changes to the truth but other films like U571 completely distorted the truth. This shows that historical films hinder our knowledge of the past because they are made for entertainment and not to inform people about what happened in the past. This is a major factor in why historical films do hinder our knowledge of the past because when the truth is distorted the films are misleading the public because some people may believe what they see despite the major

With our history, perspective is key. When reading about a certain speech or event it is important to make sure you have a reliable source. Sometimes primary sources are scarce, so secondary sources will be needed. Sometimes the sources can clash with each other, making it hard to tell what is true and not. Different perspectives of historic events can dampen understanding of the true message given when personal bias and dim perspectives are applied. Our history is being influenced by secondary sources rather than the real message of the primary source.

There is no question as to whether or not historical cinema affects how people view different historical events, even if they are not documentaries. Film makers being allowed to interpret history their own way allows us to see how society views different events/issues at the time. In a way, I can see how this is appropriate, because at every point in history, someone thought they were telling the story right, based on their own perspectives, and to downplay that limits the wide array of points of view from which it is possible to view an event. However, viewing a historical event through the medium of a dramatic film could also potentially taint the authenticity or historical accuracy of the actual event for the sake of “artistic expression”