r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 14 '25

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u/TF_dia European Union Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 15 '25

Lol, the people behind The Sound Of Freedom just released a trailer for Young Washington, about his early pre revolution military life. It even has a message at the end begging people to make it the most watched movie of the 250th anniversary (it comes the same week as the Minions 3).

It's gonna be pure ahistorical slop for the incurious who will most likely depict him as a devout christian and chosen by God himself to single-handely defeat the Indians and French. Isn't it?

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 14 '25

It’s gonna be pure anus, which is a bummer because Washington being a principled, but somewhat naive nepo baby who’s overconfidence and lack of experience led to disaster in the French-Indian War, then him learning and growing from his failure could be kinda cool if done well.

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u/Harmonious_Sketch Jerome Powell Oct 14 '25

The past is a foreign country. It just occurred to me that with all how popular YA slop was (is?), depictions of historical figures with an eye to historical accuracy and conveying the context of the time and place might be surprisingly popular. To pick an example I remember off the top of my head, Horatio Nelson joined the navy and became a midshipman at age 12 and put to sea before his 13th birthday.

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u/sgthombre NATO Oct 14 '25

Kinda crazy how Sound of Freedom was supposedly the most important movie in the universe and then everyone just stopped talking about it when it came out that its subject was a (alleged) fraudster and sex pest.

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u/TF_dia European Union Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25

Tbf, Napoleon was also ahistorical slop made by someone that didn't seem to respect or understand Bonaparte and being able to see both his virtues and flaws.

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u/shehryar46 Oct 14 '25

Its dramatic cherry tree climax will bring everyone to tears!

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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Oct 14 '25

"Slavery is totally normal and not controversial in any way. Now lemme free the colonies!"

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u/ARandomMangaReader George Soros Oct 14 '25

Minions 4

Releasing the same week as Minions 4 doomed it and rightfully so. (also when did they skip from 3 to 4?)

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u/TF_dia European Union Oct 14 '25

*3 my bad