How do you feel when a movie twists history a bit to make it more interesting or digestible for…?

Question by Munroe: How do you feel when a movie twists history a bit to make it more interesting or digestible for…?
…a younger audience?
Share a movie that you feel took some liberty with history to make the movie or the scrip work for a younger audience.

I don’t mean they exactly changed the facts of history but that there was something that you know wasn’t accurate for that time period, era, or that particular country, or for that gender, or specific culture in that particular time period.

How do you feel when something is changed in a movie to make it more INTERESTING TO A YOUNGER GENERATION or AUDIENCE? If you are watching a movie with a younger person; do you feel compelled to tell them the facts later –so that they know the real truth? Or do you just let them enjoy the movie with its own interpretation for the sake of entertainment?

Best answer:

Answer by derouin
There are no movies that don’t bend the truth to make it more interesting. Otherwise, it wouldn’t be a movie, but a documentary, and even those are often not 100% true.
Any movie, whether it is a WWII movie, a drama ‘based on true events’ or other, has to be made more interesting in order to keep the audience interested for 1,5 hours or more.

I have no kids yet, but I definitely make sure younger nephews etc know this also. Not in any particular examples (like: ‘ that event in that movie was actually somewhat different’), but in more general statements, like I mentioned above.

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