[ SECRET POST #3797 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3797 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #544.
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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Amen.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. Think of it as alternate reality history.

[(Anonymous)]

Some folks just don't quite get "willing suspension of disbelief", it seems.

[(Anonymous)]

In all the historical fiction secrets posted to FS, I see a lot more people who don't understand that not everyone can achieve suspension of disbelief in the face of historical inaccuracies, and that's okay, too.

[nightscale]

Ha, yeah I get you. I've enjoyed plenty of inaccurate historical TV shows knowing full-well that they were made up on some level.

[nocowardsoul]

I agree.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm fairly certain that more people on FS think the way you do than the people you're protesting against.

[sarillia]

I get irrationally annoyed by people telling me things I already know in general. I know it's about two different legitimate personal preferences, whether you'd rather have people tell you something you may not know from the start or if you're comfortable asking if it turns out you don't know, but it just bugs me.

[mrs_don_draper]

Exactly!

That's like a friend and I were watching a movie where the main guy was walking through the streets of New York, and she says to me, "The streets in New York are WAY more crowded than that!"

And I was like, "Wow, it's almost as if this were a movie and not a documentary!"

[(Anonymous)]

To be honest, this sounds more like an offhand comment and not a lecture directed at you personally. I'd be a little annoyed if a friend reacted so sarcastically to the kind of casual remark people make all the time when they're watching stuff with friends.

[mrs_don_draper]

No, but she meant it as a criticism of the film. She brought it up because the scene wasn't realistic enough for her.

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, okay. I guess your reaction took me by surprise because I often make little comments like that. Like, "Daaaamn, look at all that food!" during a scene of a family gathering or holiday, and I'd be really taken aback if the person next to me snapped, "Yeah, it's almost as if it was a movie and not an actual family dinner someone has to cook for real!"

[ninety6tears]

And I'm pretty sure they take that liberty at some point in almost any movie that takes place in New York. Groups of friends walking around in single file doesn't allow much.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. People know I don't like Phillipa Gregory but I like plenty of other historically inaccurate things and ask me why. The reason I don't like Gregory isn't the historical inaccuracy, it's the way she makes one character the pure cinnamon roll and everyone else is evil or good entirely according to how they treat that one character and that really shits me. I can deal with the rest!

[sarillia]

I like Gregory's stuff (to my shame :p) but I get this. She is so bad with that.

Oh the irony...

[(Anonymous)]

of reading this secret while watching A Knight's Tale...

Re: Oh the irony...

[analise]

Haha, I thought of A Knight's Tale as I read the secret. It's got to be my favorite completely irreverently ahistorical historical film ever.

[saturnofthemoon]

I've never encountered a piece of historical fiction that wasn't inaccurate to some degree.

[(Anonymous)]

For me the problem isn't necessarily the inaccuracy itself. It is the way the inaccuracy is often presented in a way that you are supposed to think it's accurate. Inaccuracies where the writer/director/whatever is honest about it and says they changed this and that and that isn't really what happened bothers me less. But you want to know why people make the assumption you're complaining about in your secret here? it is because those of us who can spot an inaccuracy are constantly seeing people talk about those inaccuracies as if they were actual verified fact, BECAUSE they saw it in a novel or tv show or movie and assumed it must be correct. If less people were going around talking about fictional inaccuracies as if they were facts, less people would assume that that is common.