Mississippi Burning
When presenting movies based on historical facts, the writers, directors and studio executives that comprise Hollywood should be held accountable for its revisions to history within historical films. When presenting motion pictures based on historical facts, Hollywood should step up to the plate, examine the truths and summarize these truths in terms of maintaining historical accuracy. In the film Mississippi Burning, we get a sense of what it was like for struggling blacks in the Deep South but the question remains as to the accuracy and prevalence of the facts portrayed. In movies such as Mississippi Burning, JFK and Amistad, we are presented with situations that are based on historical events. The historical events are alluded to within the movie but the truth behind the film is rarely examined in a sociological aspect. We see half truths and misrepresentations, misinterpretations and blatant works of fiction and are lead to accept these tall tales as fact.As Hollywood, more and more, portrays historical facts intermingled with the idealistic visions of writers and directors, viewers have a need to become increasingly aware of the discrepancies between fact and fiction. The audience needs to arm themselves with the proper too
In the end, when everything is said and done and the last curtain has been called, we all walk away from a movie with different viewpoints. Life, like algebra, is a series of equations and we are each variables awaiting input for our very definition. What we see and perceive on a daily basis define who we are and what we believe. It is these definitions and variables of life that add the variety necessary for ongoing stimulations, conversations and discussions on the very issues we try so hard to restrict. Life will find a way to survive; it is the diversity that makes it interesting. In the Oliver Stone movie JFK, the facts, as presented by the Warren Commission, are loosely interspersed with widespread conspiratorial theory. These conspiracy theories are not the hallucinations of the director or screenwriter. They are based on fact in that they are widely accepted theories in the controversial slaying of President Kennedy. The United States government had issued its "official" report stating that there was one shooter (Lee Harvey Oswald, The Lone Gunman) and two shots. In order for the Commission's statement to be true those two shots would have had to break several laws of physics to complete the tasks they were assigned and end up in the places they ended up. Oliver Stone does not present the movie JFK as a wholly factual representation but rather he asks us, as thinking rational beings to examine the facts, official and otherwise, and question the way our government covers up or relays information to us (Historical Revisionism: A Quest for Many Truths, pg3, p2). Stone also uses historical settings and fictional characters to draw us into the historical aspects of the film in much the same way director James Cameron uses the fictional love of two make believe characters to draw us into the movie Titanic. Cameron does not portra
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