I’ve found that basically every topic I’m knowledgeable in is usually portrayed badly in most media. I imagine it’s the same most basically all fields.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books as over-the-top trashy fun. Then I tried reading Digital Fortress and I just couldn’t. I just kept screaming in my head “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!” and at that point I realized what art historians must feel about the Robert Langdon books.
Historians: All histories are fiction. Objective truth is illusory. Every narrative is the subjective product of its author and context, with no tangible bearing on reality.
Historians watching any film remotely connected to their field: Well that never fucking happened!
I’ve found that basically every topic I’m knowledgeable in is usually portrayed badly in most media. I imagine it’s the same most basically all fields.
I really enjoyed Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon books as over-the-top trashy fun. Then I tried reading Digital Fortress and I just couldn’t. I just kept screaming in my head “That’s not how this works! That’s not how any of this works!” and at that point I realized what art historians must feel about the Robert Langdon books.
Historians: All histories are fiction. Objective truth is illusory. Every narrative is the subjective product of its author and context, with no tangible bearing on reality.
Historians watching any film remotely connected to their field: Well that never fucking happened!
So they’re right lol
I don’t think historians actually use the phrase “no tangible bearings on reality”
I once visited the church in Paris that features in the Da Vinci Code. They were absolutely not happy with all the tourists asking about the book.
The only thing that’s reliably portrayed realistically is things that a screen writer would know.
Yep! It’s known as “The Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect”.