Q&A: Do people actually know history or just hollywood?
Question by knight1192a: Do people actually know history or just hollywood?
Lately I’m seeing a lot of answering history questions with answers based solely on the movies. Like if a question is asked about passengers aboard the Titanic the night she sank someone will say “Well, there was Jack and Rose…” And it’s not just Titanic questions, I’ve seen other movies brought up in other questions and often fictional elements (or the whole movie itself if there’s nothing real in it) will be brought up as if their real.
I do believe that people can learn something from the various historical movies or movies that contain various elements of history. But I also believe that a good historical movie makes you actually want to go out and learn the real history behind the movie (or for that matter a good movie with historical elements in it). Yet itseems like too many are studying Hollywood and expecting absolutely everything in the movies to be true.
Do people actually know real history or are they more apt to believe what’s in movies and not even learn history?
I understand using movies for references, I do it myself from time to time. But I don’t leave it at just the movies by themselves, I try to give actual history. What gets me is the folks who clearly watch a movie and then believe it’s 100% historically accurate.
Best answer:
Answer by braking dwn released on new moon
People use movies as references because they share them with everyone else in society. There is so much history, branches that many people haven’t studied, while there is a nice, long, thin line of American movies most cultured people have seen.
Also, many of the people on here are young, so they may not have much knowledge of history, while they have seen many films.
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