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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:06:07 -0500
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
> On 1/15/2025 5:57 PM, William Hyde wrote:
>> Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>> On 1/15/2025 5:16 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>> On 1/15/2025 8:42 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>>>>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Dealing with monarchies is a weird thing, because it comes down 
>>>>>> entirely
>>>>>> to figuring out what the monarch is thinking, which isn't always 
>>>>>> what he
>>>>>> is saying either domestically or to the foreign press.  Whatever 
>>>>>> happened
>>>>>> to Kremlinologists and Sovietologists anyway?
>>>>>> --scott
>>>>>
>>>>> I enjoyed the new Napoleon movie and relearned a lot of European
>>>>> history.  The battle scenes were amazing.
>>>>
>>>> An entertainment film should not be confused with history, in
>>>> any aspect.
>>>>
>>>> Real history is far more nuanced than can be conveyed in 120 minutes.
>>>
>>> I recall someone saying "A picture is worth a thousand words...".
>>
>> A movie is worth a million lies.
>>
>> William Hyde
> 
> https://time.com/6338563/napoleon-movie-true-story/

As you have not read that article, I feel safe in telling you that the 
article makes a big deal of the fact that the movie did not portray 
Napoleon as a three-armed Martian who conquered Jupiter.

In that it was absolutely correct.

William Hyde