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kurt luginbyhl (MNHAD007@SIVM.BITNET)
Tue, 12 Oct 1993 09:23:54 ECT
On this discussion on whether the whipping Denzel's character was too severe.
Ya gotta remember folks. ITs A MOVIE!!!!! How many times have film makers
portrayed anything historical in exact context? I can't think of one!
>From Santa Fe Trail to Robin Hood to Fort Apache and any thing else. The fact
is movies are movies and your not going to find historical perfection. Every
stinkin station in the East has run the Making of Gettysburg 10 times this week
30 or 40 on TNT and TBS. The only good thing is that the re-enacters are
portrayed well with a bit of dignity. All this bickering over things that don'
t matter. Let's discuss the campaigns of Sibley against Canby in the West.
Ya can't keelhaul someone on dry land. Keelhauling is worse than whipping I
bet. Except in the movie Botany Bay Alan Ladd got keelhaul like twice and was
little damaged?! Not likely.
Truth is stranger than fiction? Not! These day fiction is easier to believe.
Down with revisionism! History needs truth not to be rewritten to be political
ly correct. Some people called other people names we know because we still
use them. Let us not forget!
I am going to have my coffee now and maybe take a pill. &:{)
Some things get my dander up. Peace!
H. A. Kurt Luginbyhl
Scientific Computer Specialist
National Museum of Natural History
Washington D.C. 20560