Monday, January 11, 2010

Public Service Announcement: Oliver Stone is NOT A HISTORIAN

Well, read this historical-mangling-in-the-making and fresh hell to come, but I'm only going to quote Hollywood movie director Oliver Stone's own words:
"You cannot approach history unless you have empathy for the person you may hate."
Um, really? I thought history was in great part about the investigation of facts, not the mushy indulging of therapeutic feelings and revisionistic garbage that purports to be "edgy" and "avant-garde" by turning good guys into bad guys and/or bad guys into "just folks who were misunderstood."

UPDATE: Read this via Samizdata.

2 comments:

lumpy said...

One of us should SO do the bio-film of Stone's life, and as a tribute, we should do it in his style ...

Mad Minerva said...

Heh! Now that would be fun!