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akkartik  ·  4320 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Marlon Brando's OscarĀ® win for " The Godfather"
Absolutely, that's why it's on the list :)

But it's not necessarily for pop culture references, closer to the opposite. I consider my list to be of movies forgotten by pop culture but undeservingly so.

If there was one over-arching reason I liked those movies, it was that they were accidentally educational, providing a suprisingly rich glimpse of another period. It's possible they aren't accurate. I'm not a historian, and one shouldn't get history from fiction :) But the fact that those stories would be depicted differently today provides, I think, a surprising triangulation on what really happened.





bse  ·  4312 days ago  ·  link  ·  
All history is fiction. It is only a matter of degree. :)