History vs Hollywood

[Caradoc]

IIt would, of course, be "off topic," and maybe if popular enough, they might give us our own "reading room" or "library" in the XMarks mansion.

For those who prefer cinema, a movie group, as well?

Or just a "media" forum to include books and movies - music is already included under the other forum (Celtic - Scottish music would be a subcategory, I think).

"Kilts in the media" is already a forum, too.

I've got a reasonably well-stocked library of Scots material.

[auld argonian]

Was it someone on this forum or on another group that I was engaged in that used a signature line something like:

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to get all their facts from Hollywood."

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AA

[macwilkin]

Was it someone on this forum or on another group that I was engaged in that used a signature line something like:

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to get all their facts from Hollywood."

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AA

Brilliant...pure dead brilliant, AA! :mrgreen:

This quote is at the top of my class syllabus:

"History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time."
-- Anonymous

I always tell students that this not only applies to history, but to their grades as well!

Todd

[GlassMan]

Was it someone on this forum or on another group that I was engaged in that used a signature line something like:

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to get all their facts from Hollywood."

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AA

That reminds me of one my favorite professors. Jaroslav Pelikan started his first class each semester by handing out maps of Europe which only showed the coast lines. He then asked all of us to draw in various peoples and geographical features. The following session he then took the absolute worst errors, combined them on a single map and proceeded to give a lecture on how the world would be different if the Rhine was located in the Balkans, the Pyrhenees in Germany, and other humerous bits that showed the average American's complete lack of geographic knowledge.

[auld argonian]

Frankly, one of my best lines is:

"All history is revisionist history."

...and that's one of mine.

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AA

[Sylvain]

and other humerous bits that showed the average American's complete lack of geographic knowledge.

I already read that a majority of Americans couldn't find USA on a world map...

[Mithral]

Movie = Historical Hogwash. Oh, it gits the blood up, but still hogwash. (And yet I still love watching it.)

A book that I greatly enjoyed which actually had a good deal about Wallace in it, is a biography written by Ronald McNair Scott, Robert the Bruce: King of Scots.

[Southern Breeze]

Great thread. I'll be looking for the books that were mentioned.

[KiltedKnight]

This thread has really saddened me to the point of one uncontrolled tear escaping my eye. To doubt Hollywood as you have is unthinkable! Next I'd expect you all to tear down wonderful historical films such as "Little Big Man" and "Forrest Gump". Well, I won't have it and I won't read anything against such wonderfully informative movies that with them and a Seven and a half minute series map I could find any place in Europe!

Chris...

[An t-Ileach]

...For the record, Wallace may not have had an affair with Sophie Marceau, but I sure would have

Did you see her in La fille de d'Artagnan? (D'Artagnan was played by Gerard Depardieu, I think).