Happy 4th all - In other news we watched Hamilton on Disney plus last night - quite a show.
Definitely MD material, then..... Says it's a little weird to have her sit there watching an autopsy after dinner, doesn't bother her at all...
I can't imagine being excited about Hamilton, I know it's just a musical but teaching history for a living has made me hate it over the past few years. You wouldn't believe the amount of people who think it is presenting history rather than some soap opera inspired by history.
I totally understand - though that pretty much describes any 'historic' movie or TV show
And of course the Science Channel and the History Channel and the Learning Channel have taught us conclusively that people aren't interested in Science or History or Learning - I call it sideshow TV.
Much of that stuff I watch for the "erntertainment" of it, not that I expect to learn much. And military history, I think the guys making them tell their assistants, "find me video of a plane crash" or "I need some tanks". The assistant doesn't know right from wrong and in many cases neither it seems does the creator. I've seen German footage in Vietnam documentaries and modern aircraft taking off from carriers on things on WW2.
I can't imagine being excited about Hamilton... You wouldn't believe the amount of people who think it is presenting history rather than some soap opera inspired by history.
Mike said:I think the guys making them tell their assistants, "find me video of a plane crash" or "I need some tanks".
Narrators waxing eloquent about napalm when clearly it's willie-pete going off, or footage of F-4 missions mixed with Voodoos or Thuds, all supposed to be the same.
[/COLOR]Yup.
And ~sound~ overdubbed with footage from WW-II combat, air-to-air shots from Viet Nam... but I guess it ain't new. Movietone was doing it in their 'newsreels' as was Universal with Ed Herlihy narrating. Aggravates me knowing what it took to slate and combine audio with video in those times.