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Title: It's the official history now
Review: There is a famous piece of educational research where a class of school students compare two films - the 1950s western 'Searchers', and this one, 'Dances With Wolves'. Nearly all of them believed Dances with Wolves to be the more historically accurate film even though it is about as accurate as Mel Gibson's roles in Braveheart, The Patriot (well just about any of his historical roles come to think of it).This is not a dig at Costner, Hollywood studios or anyone else for producing such a PC pap romantic movie. Storytellers, filmmakers have always distorted history somewhat to tell a good story. The real sadness lies in our own failure of history education, leading to our ignorant credulity when hoards of us watch such films and believe they depict some kind of historical reality.As H.L. Mencken so wisely put it. No one ever lost money underestimating the intelligence of the general public.
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