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<blockquote data-quote="Karin Schill" data-source="post: 283941">Who is to say that?Some historians who are pushing their own agenda today?I mean the movie is obviously a product of it&#039;s time. But let&#039;s think here for a moment. It came out in 1939. It depicts a time period around the civil war which was 1861-1865. This means that someone who was a child during the civil war era could have still been alive around the time the movie came out. (for instance someone who was 10 in 1865 would have been 84 when the movie came out in 1939). So if the people who were born in the 1800s had no issues with the way the movie portrayed their time era when it came out why should we have a problem with it now?Also the author used stories she had been told by people who were living in the South during the Civil war when she wrote her book. I wonder if we&#039;re gonna get the same kind of discussion about &quot;Titanic&quot; (1997) 50 years from now? Maybe people will claim it is not accurate in the future. Even though when it came out people who were survivors were still alive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Karin Schill, post: 283941"] Who is to say that? Some historians who are pushing their own agenda today? I mean the movie is obviously a product of it's time. But let's think here for a moment. It came out in 1939. It depicts a time period around the civil war which was 1861-1865. This means that someone who was a child during the civil war era could have still been alive around the time the movie came out. (for instance someone who was 10 in 1865 would have been 84 when the movie came out in 1939). So if the people who were born in the 1800s had no issues with the way the movie portrayed their time era when it came out why should we have a problem with it now? Also the author used stories she had been told by people who were living in the South during the Civil war when she wrote her book. I wonder if we're gonna get the same kind of discussion about "Titanic" (1997) 50 years from now? Maybe people will claim it is not accurate in the future. Even though when it came out people who were survivors were still alive. [/QUOTE]

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