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Title: Ben Affleck's NHL: Wayne Gretzky, posing as Canadian, scores 894 goals
Category: Funny
Posted By: Regina
Date: 2013-02-26 09:40:34
Canadian

[DrCaleb]

[N_Fiddledog]

Gotta love this...

$1:

All of the above are based on true stories. The only part that isn’t true is all of it.

I could quote that in reply to so many posts.

[raydan]

Probably a lot of people will read the first sentence and stop.

[Freakinoldguy]

I'm sorry National Post but where was all the outrage when Ken Taylor and Jimmy Carter claimed Ben Affleck was spinning a tale that wasn't anywhere near the truth?

To little to late.

Although, if you watch American Television everyones feeling sorry for Ben because he's only the second director in Academy history not to win the best director award when his movie won best picture.

So he's basically getting sympathy for telling a blatent lie and not being properly rewarded for it.

[Jonny_C]

It's too bad that this American re-write of history will, because of the power of Hollywood films, be accepted by many Canadians as a true story.

It would be really interesting to see a "protest" movie made (of course it will never happen) that tells the real story.

[martin14]

At least we are laughing about it.

[rickc]

I have not seen the movie yet. I will wait untill it comes out at redbox for a buck. What is the point of the article? Are they saying that the movie script is playing total bullshit with the facts of what really happened? Don't worry about spoiling the plot, I lived through the event, and remember it like it was yesterday.

[Freakinoldguy]

rickc rickc:

I have not seen the movie yet. I will wait untill it comes out at redbox for a buck. What is the point of the article? Are they saying that the movie script is playing total bullshit with the facts of what really happened? Don't worry about spoiling the plot, I lived through the event, and remember it like it was yesterday.

The point of the article is that since the second world war the people in Hollywood have taken extreme liberties with history to make their films more, how would you say palatable to what appears to be a historically uneducated audience that laps up the inaccuracies and ineuendo's as the truth.

Hell, watching the Academy Awards, Seth MacFarlane actually had the gall to say this movie was based on recently unclassified CIA documents which, basically calls Ken Taylor and Jimmy Carter liars for disputing the movies historical accuracy, while making Ben Affleck out to be some sort of a historian.

As a kid I can remember the Americans being incensed when the Communists in Russia would claim they won WWII almost single handedly while inventing things like sliced bread, the hot dog and everything in between.

Most people over here knew that was bullshit but, the Russian people didn't and consequently still think they won WWII and that America the evil North American Capitalists did nothing to help defeat Hitler.

So, you can pretty much see how blatent, historical inaccuracies lead to revisionist history and that's what people both up here and in the States who know the truth about the event are pissed about.

America didn't like it when the Russians did it to them and the rest of the world is sick and tired of having Hollywood do the same thing to them under the guise of "entertainment".

[martin14]

[raydan]

I still don't understand that some people actually expect movies to reflect reality.

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

I still don't understand that some people actually expect movies to reflect reality.

'Star Wars' they know isn't real, but 'JFK' they know to be a real person. They know people like Abraham Lincon existed, so they expect the story to be real. That's about as far as their thought process reaches.

[Lemmy]

Yeah, let's vilify Walt Disney 'cause Pocahontas wasn't historically accurate either. Argo did a great job of depicting the emotion of the incident. That's more important than getting the facts exactly correct. Understanding history is more about understanding theme, emotion and context than fact. Afleck gets good marks from me on the important aspects of the story, especially given that it's meant to be entertainment, not documentary.

[raydan]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

raydan raydan:

I still don't understand that some people actually expect movies to reflect reality.

'Star Wars' they know isn't real, but 'JFK' they know to be a real person. They know people like Abraham Lincon existed, so they expect the story to be real. That's about as far as their thought process reaches.

Do we really care about those people?

Educating OR indoctrinating

$1:

Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens.

[DrCaleb]

raydan raydan:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

raydan raydan:

I still don't understand that some people actually expect movies to reflect reality.

'Star Wars' they know isn't real, but 'JFK' they know to be a real person. They know people like Abraham Lincon existed, so they expect the story to be real. That's about as far as their thought process reaches.

Do we really care about those people?

Educating OR indoctrinating

$1:

Film is considered to be an important art form, a source of popular entertainment, and a powerful medium for educating—or indoctrinating—citizens.

Me, I don't much care about those people, so much as their impact on our lives now. And I don't look to Hollywood for history, but easy on the eyes entertainment.

I probabally won't even see 'Argo' as I'd be afraid they'd completely ignore the Canadian Consulate's role in the whole affair, and it would just piss me off.