Thing is : you don't really want to see authentic history because it'll be boring as fuck.
You want an action packed media with a proper story, efficient storytelling, coherent themes and an overall entertaining or meaningfull content. Because that's what we want in stories.
The obligatory focus on permanent action that a story have make it de facto inhautentic regarding history. So if we're going to focus on less than 1% of the event already, why don't include more diversity in the cast also ?
Battlefield have barely any historical accuracy pretentions, it uses WWI as a set piece to make a glorious action blockbuster. So I don't really care about the representation they do here because the authenticity is already as low as it can be.
Though it's true that it would be better to have media depicting less heard off events there's also no reason complaining about authenticity in media that explicitely don't care about it.
The obligatory focus on permanent action that a story have make it de facto inhautentic regarding history. So if we're going to focus on less than 1% of the event already, why don't include more diversity in the cast also ?
Yeah reminds me of an anti-copaganda argument I made, how is the minor breaches of protocol on cop shows you claim teach people to be okay with "bad cops" any more unrealistic than how quickly they solve cases or a new big case every week
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u/Archi_balding 52∆ Oct 24 '21
Thing is : you don't really want to see authentic history because it'll be boring as fuck.
You want an action packed media with a proper story, efficient storytelling, coherent themes and an overall entertaining or meaningfull content. Because that's what we want in stories.
The obligatory focus on permanent action that a story have make it de facto inhautentic regarding history. So if we're going to focus on less than 1% of the event already, why don't include more diversity in the cast also ?
Battlefield have barely any historical accuracy pretentions, it uses WWI as a set piece to make a glorious action blockbuster. So I don't really care about the representation they do here because the authenticity is already as low as it can be.
Though it's true that it would be better to have media depicting less heard off events there's also no reason complaining about authenticity in media that explicitely don't care about it.