Monday, September 12, 2016

Is There Such A Thing As A Historically Accurate Western?

(Bob Boze Bell) ... Of course not. Every movie is a recreation of events that no one can agree on (and that's just the eyewitnesses). But this impossibility just isn't our curse. I once met a lawyer who cannot watch Perry Mason. "You could never do cross [examination] that way. Totally unbelievable." The other liability is no matter how great, or award-winning the movie becomes, there is going to be an expert, or a person who lived through the actual historical event being portrayed, who hates the film. Continued

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