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• upandatom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This can’t be your honest take…

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  • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What’s wrong with it?

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    • Soupbreaker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well, it’s inaccurate. Fiction does not require unrealistic elements. There’s just scads of fiction out there—across multiple genres—that’s set in a real time and place, and doesn’t involve anything fantastical.

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      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Fiction does not require unrealistic elements.

        If it is entirely realistic it is no longer fiction. Ergo, fiction needs some degree of unreality. I don’t see how that’s controversial, haha.

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• wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It is possible to have a realistic story in fiction. For example, Mad Men is a tv series that’s pretty grounded in history but the characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research. It’s not a documentary, it’s fiction, but quite realistic.

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  • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I envision ‘realistic’ as a spectrum. If it is 100% realistic, it’s a documentary, if it’s 100% unrealistic, it’s probably a fantasy movie or something, and most works of fiction fall somewhere between.

    characters and everything that happens to them are the product of the writers and their research

    Like, you understand this is my point, right? The plot is not real, and that’s what makes it fictional?

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    • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What you’re saying is sound and I agree the plot not being real is fiction; the only problem is you said fiction required unrealistic elements and most people see “unrealistic” as basically fantasy

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      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        See, I hear ‘fantasy’ and think of orks and fairies and shit, but I can think of many non-fantasy movies that have incredibly unrealistic aspects.

        Like, idk, James Bond’s gizmos are completely unrealistic and break the laws of physics, but it’s not fantasy to me.

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