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Re: Cleburne the Movie
I believe the saving grace of using the "graphic novel" approach is that audiences not educated about the subject are more easily able to realize the story is heavily dramatized and not necessarily supposed to be factual in nature. For instance, when "300" came out in theaters, the audience appreciated the cartoonish effect/costumes as entertainment rather than a history lesson. Most people I talked to about that movie knew that was NOT what Ancient Greece/Persia was like in real life.
Realism in moves, I feel, seems to fool the audience into thinking that a historically-based storyline is factual history.
Conversely on that point, just by making a film of this nature about a still-highly controversial period in American history, we as living historians will have to answer the general public's casual questions that result from this movie (whether we like it or not) just because of the movie release.
I mean, how many people to this day still think Mel Gibson actually looked like the real William Wallace?
Insert random insanity of the sort here...:confused_
Mr. Dabney- ready-up your RDII and shine your musket because of this movie... "thar be educatin' to do"!:D:p
I believe the saving grace of using the "graphic novel" approach is that audiences not educated about the subject are more easily able to realize the story is heavily dramatized and not necessarily supposed to be factual in nature. For instance, when "300" came out in theaters, the audience appreciated the cartoonish effect/costumes as entertainment rather than a history lesson. Most people I talked to about that movie knew that was NOT what Ancient Greece/Persia was like in real life.
Realism in moves, I feel, seems to fool the audience into thinking that a historically-based storyline is factual history.
Conversely on that point, just by making a film of this nature about a still-highly controversial period in American history, we as living historians will have to answer the general public's casual questions that result from this movie (whether we like it or not) just because of the movie release.
I mean, how many people to this day still think Mel Gibson actually looked like the real William Wallace?
Insert random insanity of the sort here...:confused_Mr. Dabney- ready-up your RDII and shine your musket because of this movie... "thar be educatin' to do"!
:D:p
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