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© 2022 AFPNetflix defends 'The Crown' after ex-PM Major calls it 'malicious nonsense'
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Bob Fosse
major’s tenure as PM was as scandal ridden as any tv drama, himself having several affairs whilst claiming a ‘back to basics’ of decency and family values. He denied newspaper reports at the time as ‘nonsense’, of course all later confirmed true.
Michael Machida
Im out of order? You Sir are out of order!
Antiquesaving
If Hollywood wants fictional make fictional but don't try missing history up as fictional
wallace
There will be different interpretations of any event. It's just TV. Never watched it. Don't care much for the royal family.
itsonlyrocknroll
Why take this nonsense seriously, the story lines are factitious or outright fictitious.
Well written, some good dramatization. The acting is reasonably up to scratch.
The US film industry is well known for historic fakery.
The Bridge on the River Kwai. The Great Escape, Braveheart, U-571.
All good fun to watch, laugh out loud, comic historic inaccuracy.
Tony Blair condemned U-571 in parliament, and Tony Blair knows something about inaccuracy.
1glenn
OK, a lot of people are into that kinda of thing, but does not interest me.
TokyoLiving
That's not the "crown", it's the "circus".. lol..
Antiquesaving
Sadly it isn't all good fun, because so many youth in the USA know just about zero about history and they actually get their "facts " from these movies and TV shows.
Examples are Argo most Young people think Americans did it but is was Canadians.
WW2 most think the USA had the hardest time and lost more because the movies give that impression, the Soviet Union lost 11 million soldiers the British 880,000 and we're at war 2 years longer Americans think the war started in 1941 instead of 1939 .
The latest woman King turned salvers into anti slavers and people believe it now.
If at least the youth were being taught the facts but even that isn't being done because it is often too controversial.
JeffLee
The public can handle the truth. It’s the filmmakers and their “agendas” that can’t.
I’m watching "Dahmer" and some of the most compelling scenes, especially about race, are fictionalized, I’m learning after some research.
Just tell the truth. Telling the truth is easier than making up lies. If it isn’t, then you’ve got a serious problem and shouldn't be making these series.
Local Gaijin
I recently started watching a supposed documentary on Rome. There were dramatizations interspersed with academics talking about various happenings.
In one dramatization, they had a young Julius Caesar as a young soldier in Crassus’s legion fighting against Spartacus. Complete hogwash. I can’t understand why the academics would even be associated with that complete fiction being passed off as fact.
ushosh123
Aren't documentaries more truthful than drama's? You can watch those. I mean real life tends to be bland, there isn't enough juice in real-life to compete with fictional dramas. Unless they are slandering you, and claim to be truthful rather than fictional I wouldn't worry.
Bob Fosse
How many ‘young’ people did you ask?
I think most young people haven’t heard of the incident or seen the film version.
I also think that anyone of any age has enough sense to distinguish between The History Channel and TV/film drama.
What age group do you define as ‘Young’ (sic)? Under 50?