Comment on What are examples of anachronisms you've seen from movies depicting historical settings?
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoHighly context dependent, I guess, but the South seceded just because Lincoln was elected, even though he explicitly said he wasn’t going to end slavery, so enough people must have been talking about it to spook the slavers.
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Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
Yeah, in that context it would make sense, I’m mostly talking about media where it’s just dropped in to show the good morals of the character, while having no consequences of meaning outside of that
schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yeah, but that’s kind of just how people are. I bitch about stuff all the time, but I don’t do shit about it.
The type of person who would go to Kansas or Spain are always in the minority.
NABDad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Like in The Patriot when the British officer confronting Mel Gibson tells him his slaves will be seized, but then we find out he just has a bunch of free blacks who work for him because he’s such a damn nice guy.
This despite him being a wealthy farmer in South Carolina at a time when it was essentially impossible that he wouldn’t have owned slaves.
The character was most heavily inspired by Francis Marion