What is the danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information? Write a 100 word response to the above question.
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When u tell the story to the senior citizen about it, they will laugh at u, they will say is not the true. The movie may use the real name but they wont use the real fact, instead they will change or add something more interesting so that they can earn more money.
ReplyDeleteIf want to konw the real history, can go search web and find out more, instead of seeing the movie, and believe it.
LIPING '09'
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Movie is not a good choice to look for history and fact. It is because atleast half the movie is fake. People should understand that movies are for Entertainment not for facts. First the people must understand , then only the younger ones can learn about it and hence i say thet movies are not reliableas a source of information.
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Not all movies are made based on histories as it would be boring to watch the same topic again and again.they have to emphsise and exaserate on the characters so that more people will watch it and the maybe can display history but not exact history.Directors want their movie to sell so they would change the plot.
ReplyDeleteLimxinyi:DD
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o It is really not a 'very' good choice to watch a movie that is based on history because some of the movie parts might be fake.
ReplyDeleteIt is possible because directors might want to make the movie more interesting.
Making it short and simple.
o They may want the historic movie to have more action pack,so viewers of the movie will get engrossed with the scene. Directors may not want the movie to be exactly the same as the true story because if people have already read or heard of the real story and the movie is the same as the history, they would not watch the movie instead. They will tell others like their family,friends and relatives the plot of the movie or the true story. Then, the movie will be less watched by the public.
o The crew in the movie would only want money so that they would know that the public is enjoying their movie. The directors might want the trailers to be more interesting but when in the movie, it will be 'boring' to people.
AmiraYasmine
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If we change the story to others it is not wrong but it is like changing other people life in the past. Even though if we tell the truth is like copying others who had searching the truth for their life.
ReplyDeleteMuhd Nurhadi
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It is not a good choice to watch movies to base on the history . Directors can change almost half of the history . They just want people to think that their movie is interesting and to make money . So , it is not a good idea to watch movie to base on the history .
ReplyDeleteYingxuan [13] 1D ,
Movies are not a good source for searching historical informations.To me,movies are just for entertainment when we feel bored.Not all stories contain historical informations..And some parts of the movie could bring us to the wrong concept and idea of what its trying to say.Therefore,movies are not a reliable source for historical informations.
ReplyDeleteNoor Amirah(10)
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Not all movies have the reliable source for historical information, not '100%' true. People just watch for fun or when they are bored or something like that. If people want to know more about the TRUE history, they can search it in the web or go to museum to know more about it.
ReplyDeleteMINGFANG, 17. 1D'o9.
Movies are nice to watch.. but, some movies aren't really true compared to history informations. Movies compared to history, a large space between them. movies are only for entertainment. though it has names of people in history, but character looks may not be th same if it is compared. sometimes there's a twist in a story.
ReplyDeleteStanley #33 :D
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I don't think that it is all 100% true...
ReplyDeletebut maybe there is still some places are fake too. Although it is not 100% true,but when they are compared to the history,it hass a really wide gap between it.
Movies are fake! Some movies uses green screen as a effect....
ReplyDeleteThats why we cannot believe in movies.
Historical movies are boring as i said before.
If it is a history movie why can't it be free? But need money? Means they edited it...
Tan Yong Quan (36)
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A movie is not a reliable source for historians to infer. The movie seems to be real but only some parts are real the rest may be fake, in order to know whether the movie is real, some people may be curious about whether the whole movie is real, they would go search for the real answer in internet .Movies are for entertainment, so it must be interesting, funny ,exciting , adventure and scary so that it will attract more people to go watch it. If the producer thinks that the (Real) whole story is too boring does not attract people to watch of course they would change some parts so that the movie is more interesting. Just like a magazine cover they edit it so that it would be nicer and more attractive. if historians uses movie for inference it might affect the (Real) whole story.
ReplyDeleteReading a source which describes you what the movie is about, its not reliable. When someone ask you what's the movie about, and you told them what you have read using the source, others may think that you are not saying the facts.
ReplyDeleteShiori, 1D.
Not all movie are based on the history .
ReplyDeletesome of the parts are fake . and obviously movie is for entertainment , cannot use to be a reliables source for information . if want to know about history , they can go to website such as google , yahoo to look for information .
The Movie is not 100% True. There is a slight nick in the movie. 300: the battle took place but some parts of the movie is purely busted.
ReplyDeleteOld Pal King Leonidas was not last man standing.
Thats an example. The Director must make the movie much more interesting or we will be watching Discovery Channel or Nat Geo , History...
Lee Novi
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Not all of the movie might be true.Maybe Some part is true.Movies are for people to watch for entertainment so they might cancel the facts due to boring and change it to a new one so that people won't think that it is boring because the main idea is to earn money.
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A movie is not a reliable source. some movie use green screen as effect.some movie may seem to be real and may be fake.For those people who curious of finding the real answer , they will go and find the answer . If they could not find ,they will say that the movie .If the producer thinks that REAL movie is so so boring ,they will of course edit some part of it , os that it will be interesting and more people will come and see the movie more often.
ReplyDeleteThe movie is not true.As they have edited the history of the movie.In the movie,they have put King Leonidas the last man standing but the truth is that he is not the standing at last..They must have edited to make it more interesting,but when we watch Discovery Channel or Nat Geo we will know the real history...
ReplyDeleteThe danger is that, it might not be true and you might be learning the wrong stuff.There might be lies in the movies, but if you are not careful, you might get cheater.To me,movies are just for entertainment when we feel bored.Not all stories contain historical informations..And some parts of the movie could bring us to the wrong concept and idea of what its trying to say.Hence,movies are not a reliable source for historical informations.
ReplyDeleteMovies are not a reliable source for historians to infer on. The movie may seems to be real but only some of the parts are real the rest may be fake,some people may be curious about whether the whole movie is real, they would go search for the real answer in internet .Movies are for entertainment, so it must be interesting,thrilling,exciting , adventure and scary so that it will attract more people to go watch it. If the producer thinks that the (Real) whole story is too boring does not attract people to watch of course they would change some parts so that the movie is more interesting.If historians uses movie for inference it might affect the whole story.
ReplyDeletea movie is nt true it is adicted and done more furether editing which makes it very real such as the movie 300 the spatans wear amour in the past time when they were in the war but in the movie they were just wearing underwear carring a shiled,spear and a sword
ReplyDeleteif we believe too much in the moive we would get too obessed in the movie we would believe more and more of such moive.this is bad because so movie is bad for us such as voilentcy
ReplyDeleteYingyi(16) 1D
ReplyDeleteMost of the reliable source does not come from a movie:D Why ? It's because lots of producer will not be so stupid and make a video which is totally not interesting and take it as a source to "EARN money" The aim of most producer is to make the movie popular and earn lots of money , they don't produce the movie for the sake of us(human) whether we learn alot from the movie about history whether is it true...They usually change the clothes and some of the lines from the truth.Historical information will mostly be true came from book instead of movie.
The movie is not 100% true . they may be edited by director .
ReplyDeleteThey may add different effect to th movie .