How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief

Re:How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief by Tichy on Wednesday March 10, 2010 @07:56AM (#1180784)

Useful, yes - but few people will watch it that way. Nobody goes to see that movie just to see a realistically looking uniform.

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Re:How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief by brc on Thursday March 11, 2010 @01:35AM (#1183203)

True, but they will subconciously absorb the level of detail, such that when watching another, poor recreation of WW2 that they will see it as such.

I'm looking at this through the prism of any improvement in historical sense is better than nothing for the average joe, as long it isn't off by orders of magnitude.

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Re:How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief by Tichy on Thursday March 11, 2010 @06:52AM (#1183559)

It's hardly the accuracy of costumes that matters about history. What matters is motivations of people and reasons for stuff happening. Hollywood movies are especially bad at portraying that accurately.

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