From a 2009 Daily Mail interview:<\/p>\n
“Some people said that in telling the [Braveheart] story we messed up history. It doesn’t bother me because what I’m giving you is a cinematic experience, and I think films are there first to entertain, then teach, then inspire.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
It\u2019s always amusing watching people get heartburn over movies:<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t follow the books\/comics\/history!\u201d<\/p>\n
* The Tolkien purists really think a movie where every other scene is showing characters eating and singing would have been better than the action movies Peter Jackson did.<\/p>\n
* Grown men said Batman v Superman “ruined their childhoods” because, for example, Batman killed (he did in the Burton movies too) and they made Lex Luthor more twitchy Mark Zuckerberg than canned business man villain.<\/p>\n
* If the Prince of Egypt animated movie was accurate, Moses would\u2019ve been 80 years old, and instead of it ending with him smiling holding the 10 Commandments, he\u2019d have dropped & broken the tablets in rage watching as his brother Aaron let the Israelites have a pagan idolatry-inspired orgy around a golden calf during his brief absence.<\/p>\n
* To Mel\u2019s point, Braveheart would probably been more Bone Tomahawk-level brutality (that one scene, will not even bother describing here) than what we saw in Mel’s version, with people probably vomiting in the theater.<\/p>\n
* Some of the fairy tales Disney adapted were far more disturbing than a lot of slasher movies today.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll just end with this:<\/p>\n
Gibson\u2019s line about the primary purpose being to entertain, teach, inspire is one of the most profitable lessons I ever applied to my email & marketing – across multiple businesses – since I first heard him say it in a documentary many years ago.<\/p>\n
Same with focusing on giving a great Experience.<\/p>\n
Focusing on that\u2019ll be far more profitable than fapping to metrics and so-called AI prompts.<\/p>\n
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