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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
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The danger will be that we'll misunderstand the real truth about history. This will destroy our knowledge towards history also. It is important that we do not treat movies as real life matters because, as i said, movies are just part of entertainment. If we depend on movie to find out historical information, then there will not be a need to take history as a subject, right? It is important that we do not take in fake information into our heads and we must find out the real thing and differentiate what is the real or fake information. Therefore, this are the dangers if we depend on movies as a reliable source for historical information.
ReplyDeleteLee Le Yuan, 1-3.
You will learn the wrong thing which can cause a huge impact in the future depend on what type of job you are doing. Mostly, to the point that the other people or those children who are younger will think the wrong way that the history is actually like that and those in the future will do things that are unexpected. Thats why the movies need to stated whether is accorddingly to it or they edited it. But I still think its better to create your own movie then taking it.
ReplyDeleteChua Wan Qi
The danger is that the audience would misunderstand the real historical meaning for what is depicted in the movies. It is not a reliable source for us because directors often change the original story, regardless of how much they change it.
ReplyDeleteWe need to use our own common sense and knowledge to analyse whether it is true or not. It is very important that we do not misunderstand the fake knowledge. Thus, this are the dangers of movies as historical information.
The danger will be that we will misunderstand the real truth about history and also learn about the wrong thing which would live a huge impact in our live as what we are learning might not be a reliable source to depend on as directors would usually edit the original story so as to make it look more interesting and stand out from the rest.It is important that we do not take in fake information from these so called historical movie into our brains and we must first find out the real thing of the histroy the movie is trying to tell and differentiate what is the real or fake information inside this movie so that we would not be fake into these kind of information. Thus we should not always depend on movies for real information as who knows what danger it has within.
ReplyDeleteThe danger is that the audience will think that the things inside were real and teach them to the other and they do believe it so it influence a lot of people... i also thought that they should not copy the hisory as this got to have copyright and sometimes it is suppose to be secrets but in the end it turn out to be announce out so we should not copy other people things as they are being done by their own effort
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The danger is that we might misunderstood the truth behind the true history story. As directors of movies often change the true history strory and if young children watch the movie, they might believe that what the movie show is true thus learning the wrong thing. For example, like in the movie '300', the soldiers do not wear any clothes and go for war, but actually in the real history, they wear a heavy armor that protected their body from head to toes. If the young children watched '300' and see the soldiers not wearing any clothes and go for war, they might believe in the wrong thing and grow up to think that soldiers do not need to to wear armor for war. These, are the dangers of depending on movies for reliable source for historical information.
ReplyDeleteNg Xiao Hui (9)
the informations are changed most of them...so if we only rely on movies for historical information it will be incorrect some may be real while some was just make up story we may end up embarresed with the wrong facts that we think that it is a fact we will be if we use this wrong information this wrong fact on the wrong time. So we must not treat movies as a reliable source for historical information in the first place it is not a reliable source
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ReplyDeleteIf we depend on movies as a reliable source for historical information, we will get the wrong information. Others will also think that the source in the movies is true and slowly more and more people will think that the make up history is true and no one will believe the true one is true. The smaller generation will misunderstood the history too and this will also destroy our own knowledge. Slowly, we will not be able to know which parts of the story is true and which parts is false. Remember that movies are just a form of entertainment not true and so we should not believe it.
ReplyDeleteOngqiufeng(11) 1-3
If we were to trust movies as a reliable source of information, whatever lies the movies show us, we will just believe it without thinking it is true or not. If whatever movie we see is true, there will not be a need to study history. That is why movies are only regarded as entertainment. Trusting movies will affect our future, example if we were to want to be a historian and the judges were to ask us something about the history that the movie had shown, when we say everything that we saw in the movie, people would laugh at us. If we had children, they would also take in the wrong information. So before we conclude that whatever the movie says is true, we should think about it and be able to differentiate which information is true or not. These are the dangers on depending on movies as a reliable source of historical information.
ReplyDeleteOh Shin Yun 1-3
The information you get from watching the movie will not be the same as the director for the movie would change the plot. The director would also summaries the whole story,so the duration of the whole movie would be just nice - short and sweet. They would not drag the whole story to make the whole thing boring for the audience.Overall, it is not reliable to rely on the movie.
ReplyDeleteThe audience will get the wrong concepts. The director will add in some ideas of their own to make the movie more attractive to attract more audiences, so that they will earn more money. It is important that we do not believed all the information from the movie. Instead, we must do research to find out whether it is true or not.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information?
ReplyDeleteThe danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information is that movies are for entertainment, not information. The directors do not follow the "real" historical information. They change the plot to make it more interesting, so as to attract more audiences to watch the movie. Why do they do that? It is because that they want to earn more money. Giving "real" historical information does not help them attract audience nor get a reward. That's why we should never trust movies to give real historical information.
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ReplyDeleteThe dangers will be historical events that occur in movies are usually not real. This will result the audience to misunderstand the the events that showed in the movies and take them as the real truth of history. Directors will either add in some scenes that never happened and change the plot of the movies that are different from real life just to make the movies more interesting and attractive so that more people will watch the movies. This is a way that the directors can earn money.
ReplyDeleteLet's take Fearless, Huo Yuan Jia as an example, Huo Yuan Jia did not have any decendants and was rich. However,in true history,he did have decendants and was not rich as he worked as a farmer.
The technology nowadays is very high-tech. Videos, photographs and movies can be edited by just clicking a small little click.
All in all, I think it is important not to believe the fake historical events in the movies as movies is not a reliable source for historical information.
Pang Yi Ler Eddy(30) 1/3
The people viewing the movies might mistake them as the real past and that might lead to misconceptions. Gradually no one will know what really happened in the scenes the movie showed.Even if the events that happened is real, the plot is usually dramatised in order to attract more people, and to make more money, which are motives of making the movie in the first place.
ReplyDeleteAlvin yip(36) 1/3
The danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information is after we see these movies, we may have misconceptions of what really happened in back at that time. We have misconceptions because no one can create a exact duplicate of what really happened at that time. The directors will change the plot and in the end, it will become another whole new story, which will be really confusing for us.
ReplyDeleteThe danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information is that after seeing these movies, we would think that these are real and get the wrong information. For example, for those people who love history and depend on movies to study about it might get the wrong information and when he became a teacher and would teach wrong things to the students. So we cannot depend on movies as a reliable source for historical information. It is important to learnt history so we can learn from their mistakes but if the movie information is false, we would learnt the wrong things and cannot learnt from their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteOng Ming Hao
There will be a lot of misconceptions to the truth as different directors make documentries film and movies differently. Some directors make the different characters in the movie differ from what had happened. For example in the movie summary 300 the spartans did not wear armour but just a cloak and fought with the persians which is not the truth another false fact that the director added in is the part where
ReplyDeletethe king Leonidas' right of passage to become a spartan warrior is to murder a helot(a slave) in sparta instead of killing a wolf in the woods. If the viewers accept what they see without researching on the truth there will be many problems as different people look at a movie in different ways thus making it very confusing for those who analyse differently from what the director wants the audience to realise.
Tan hong liang(33)1/3
The danger will be that we'll misunderstand the real history. It is important that we do not treat movies as real life matters because, movies are entertainment. on hand, if we depend on movie to find out historical information, chances are it is wrong or twisted truth. It is important that we do not take in false info and we must find out the real history and differentiate what is the real or fake information.
ReplyDeletegokul(1-3)
The danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information is that after seeing these movies, what ever that we see in the movie, we will believe it all even if it is not real. But even if it is real, the producer surely changed some things like make it more dramatic or others
ReplyDeleteThe danger will be getting mix up with the real history and if everyone believes that, the history will change and bad things will happen like discrimination on other races thinking that they are as bad as what they did last time.People in history will be misunderstood that will make hate them and change the characteristic what he was suppose to be.These will seems like very minor but if people take it seriously, world will not be peace as people have different belief on different movie and fight will soon broke out.
ReplyDeleteI think that the danger is that we would misunderstand the real truth fromt eh movie itself and think the wrong way. We might think that its like the movie but actually the movie is not showing the real truth and get lied by them. The producers might just want to chnage the truth in ordet to have a higher ratings and have more people to enjoy and watch it. They would earn much more money as they have more poeple to watch it and recomend it to friends and family. The more people that watch it, the more money they get from the movie produced.
ReplyDeleteJoey 1-3
The danger will be that we'll misunderstand the real history. Some directors will make the characters in the movie different from what had happened in real life, thus making people who have studied the real history confused if they watch the movie and find that it is different from what they found out.
ReplyDeleteShanice Lee (1-3)
The danger will be that we'll misunderstand the real history. Some directors will make the characters in the movie different from what had happened in real life, thus making people who have studied the real history confused if they watch the movie and find that it is different from what they found out.
ReplyDeleteI think that the danger is that we would misunderstand the real truth fromt eh movie itself and think the wrong way. We might think that its like the movie but actually the movie is not showing the real truth and get lied by them. The producers might just want to chnage the truth in ordet to have a higher ratings and have more people to enjoy and watch it. They would earn much more money as they have more poeple to watch it and recomend it to friends and family. The more people that watch it, the more The danger will be getting mix up with the real history and if everyone believes that, the history will change and bad things will happen like discrimination on other races thinking that they are as bad as what they did last time.People in history will be misunderstood that will make hate them and change the characteristic what he was suppose to be.These will seems like very minor but if people take it seriously, world will not be peace as people have different belief on different movie and fight will soon broke out.
There will be a lot of misconceptions to the truth as different directors make documentries film and movies differently. Some directors make the different characters in the movie differ from what had happened. For example in the movie summary 300 the spartans did not wear armour but just a cloak and fought with the persians which is not the truth another false fact that the director added in is the part where
the king Leonidas' right of passage to become a spartan warrior is to murder a helot(a slave) in sparta instead of killing a wolf in the woods. If the viewers accept what they see without researching on the truth there will be many problems as different people look at a movie in different ways thus making it very confusing for those who analyse differently from what the director wants the audience to realise.
by alan
we can't totally trust movies as a source of history because the way the movies goes is dependent on the director himself.for example if the director favors the antagonists, the storyline will go such that the bad guy will always win any contest or things shown in the movie and that will make the movie boring SO DOES VICE VERSA.this will makwe us misunderstaND THe history and people will start 'believing' the history
ReplyDeleteIf we depend on movies to depict the history, we may be fooled. They could be showing a fake story that does not really tell the real history,so, when we watch the movie we may get the wrong idea of the real history. There will be misconceptions and there will be arguments between people about the real history. Historians will also be angry and it will be a disgrace for the nation
ReplyDeleteMd Aiman (24) 1/3
There will be danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information as they are not primary sources but they are secondary sources. As they are make by people who is not involved in the past historical events there will be some scenes taken with some changes due to the difficulties they have. By this, there might be some misunderstanding going on thus the person who makes it can not pass the thought of his to other people correctly. So, we should not rely on the movies as the historical source but we may just refer to some of them as an brief idea of what had been going on in this past. Lee Min Young (20) 1-3
ReplyDeleteThe will be danger of depending on movies as a reliable source for historical information is that sometimes the information that they give is not reliable. The information that they give might be false and that they change the movie and the information insode as well.
ReplyDeletethe danger of listen and follow and also thinks that the movie as a fact resource for history information is that sometimes the so called facts may not be true and even sometimes rikiculus
ReplyDeletethe things inside that we so called true information the director gave maybe false as they change the movie to suit our very needs and of course hence the information inside may be change from the real one so at last i should say that the people who gave the information is a secondary source which they get indirectly from the primary source and so the so called evidences they gave may be change and therefore be false as the information may be past down and if any of the people who past the message lied of did not tell everything or add extra things which they think may be correct but wrong this will change the whole correct fact
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by alan chua yi sheng
The dangers that we face are very real, firstly, we might get the wrong information for our history test. Secondly, minors might emulate actions(violence and unaccepted behaviour in society) which might prove fatal and dangerous as some movies are edited in such way that there is a lot of violence added to it, even though there might not be any in the history behind it. The dramatization of events will also edit characters and their personality so as to make them look more heroic when sometimes there are no even such characters.
ReplyDeleteAll in all , the dangers of trusting movies too much are always present, so we should first analyze the movie first before deciding whether to believe it or not.
BY:samweeleong,1-3(31)
The dangers are getting the wrong informations and thus, lead to making mistakes in our lifes cause we misunderstand some history facts. We may make mistakes in our history tests. They may influence us to carry out violence and prohibited behaviours as some movies contains a lot of violence. Most movies give wrong information cause some directors changed it and they are a lot of hisotry myths that are untrue. They may make the movie more exaggerated and may cause misleading to us. Thus, it is encouraged not to trust movies as a reliable source of history.
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