Splash Biography
CODY COOK, ESP Teacher
Major: Not available. College/Employer: UChicago Year of Graduation: 2015 |
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Not Available. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)X1105: When Movies Get it Wrong in Cascade! Winter 2013 (Jan. 29, 2013)
Sometimes, Disney makes mistakes. So does Warner Brothers, and Dreamworks, and countless other movie production companies. We hate to break it to you, but Pocahontas and John Smith were not lovers, more than 300 Spartans fought the Persians in the Battle of Thermopylae, and John Nash never actually saw anything during his hallucinations. So why does Hollywood include inaccuracies like this when making movies? If you are a movie lover, a history buff, or deep thinker of any kind, join us in answering this question as we examine the types, motives, and consequences of historically inaccurate movies.
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