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[Cirthalion]

There's a simple explanation for that, Chef, as I tell my literature students: history is what we've got, and fiction is what we want. Given that choice, which would you choose? As T.S. Eliot says, history is the experience, myth is the meaning.

But if what you're really objecting to is fiction presenting itself as history, I agree with you there. That's a tad irresponsible of Hollywood to do that as it often does.

[McClef]

There is a difference between adding bits which do not interfere with history and which could have theoretically happened and stuff which has no or little historical accuracy.

Holywood alas does not always know the difference!

[Chef]

But if what you're really objecting to is fiction presenting itself as history, I agree with you there. That's a tad irresponsible of Hollywood to do that as it often does.

That is what I really meant. I love good fiction; I just hate fiction dressed up as history, particularly when that history is as interesting as anything Hollywood could think up.