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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2020 6:20:58 GMT -5
So I decided to watch Apple TV's "Dickinson" because I like Emily Dickinson a lot. It turned out to be a very modern look at Emily's life: we can see her, a young daughter of a traditional 19th-century family, talking about ideas of feminism all the time, dreaming of marrying her best girl friend, infiltrating a university lecture strictly for men, freely hanging out with black and Asian people, throwing parties where everyone consumes opium and so on.
It's a pretty unique interpretation of her biography and I understand that it makes for a much more exciting watch than just a secluded woman writing poems in her bedroom all the time, so I'm not really complaining. I just want to ask: is this sort of thing common on modern TV? Do producers perhaps feel pressured to show idealized versions of the past in fear that the viewers won't like realistic portrayal of sexism and racism that was going on at that time? Would you guys describe this as just an innocent fantasy or a possible attempt at rewriting history? I haven't watched any modern series in a while so I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
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Post by 40oz on Aug 25, 2020 11:59:36 GMT -5
I'm gonna say no, not rewriting history. Apple TV is not branding itself as an educational platform. It's entertainment, and in terms of entertainment, the general population likes TV shows when the fantasy fits in a universe of social inclusion. Much in the same way that in Doom, the fantasy is that if beasts from hell invaded earth there would be guns and ammo and health items everywhere for us to kill them with, even though it doesn't represent how the world would respond to that crisis at all. It just fits the model of a nonstop killing game in a digestible format.
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Post by PHILADELPHIAWIFEBEATER on Aug 25, 2020 16:01:13 GMT -5
i'm not gonna watch a show about some flat lesbo virgin whore trying to be as progressive as humanly possible for$$$. it's effectively an attempt of brainwashing if nothing else
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Post by 40oz on Aug 25, 2020 18:51:03 GMT -5
dammit @memfis look what you did
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Post by PHILADELPHIAWIFEBEATER on Aug 25, 2020 18:54:47 GMT -5
im right though
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 8:40:09 GMT -5
A bit far right lmao
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Post by PHILADELPHIAWIFEBEATER on Aug 30, 2020 15:28:24 GMT -5
far right because i don't care what some bitch lesbo is saying about a deadbeat topic? pfft
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Post by joe-ilya on Aug 30, 2020 17:50:50 GMT -5
Politics, LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 18:01:27 GMT -5
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Post by PHILADELPHIAWIFEBEATER on Aug 30, 2020 20:42:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2020 22:34:26 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 11:52:39 GMT -5
Yeah, we really needed another tryhard edgelord  |
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Post by PHILADELPHIAWIFEBEATER on Sept 1, 2020 20:42:36 GMT -5
i like dick |
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Post by 40oz on Sept 1, 2020 22:59:31 GMT -5
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Post by dn on Sept 4, 2020 8:50:32 GMT -5
/pol/ tier conspiracy theories aside, I fucking hate this shit.
Turns out that good authors of historical fiction (Mantel, et al.) are as much *real* historians as any university professor. The research required to write something like A Place of Greater Safety is frankly insane, and creators of historical fiction deserve nothing but the utmost respect. They are the antithesis of "write what you know" - they are "research what you don't know, then write".
Compare this approach to the second-hand wank being spewed from every orifice of the entertainment industry these days. Professionals who are meant to be crafting these narratives can't be fucking bothered doing the actual research because citing sources is beneath them - if they ever bothered learning how to do so for their social science degree.Iinstead, they just write what they know and hang Henrican set dressing over modern societal debris.
Fuck this cult of anachronism.
Looking at history through the lens of today - both in terms of morality and modern ideology - is literally the first thing they try to beat out of you in education. People who define every facet of their existence around their race / unrepentant and glorious faggotry simply did not exist prior to 1900, mostly because there was more important shit to worry about on a day-to-day basis. The trials and tribulations of the 19th century slave bear only superficial resemblance to those of the 21st century black man; likewise, cowboys who buggered each other a hundred miles away from civilization are so far removed from the Spaghetti Junction Genital Squad that they are practically a different fucking species. Pretending otherwise - in both reality and fiction - only serves to render a populace ignorant of the actual societal inequalities affecting them in the present day.
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