
Are period dramas damaging history?
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The Lost King Is Not My Crackers Film Ever
The Lost King is a real feel good film. But when you move away from that, I think what was not right was the way in which the female academics were completely removed from the storyline. And whether it's drama or not, I personally had an issue with that. The archaeologists were misrepresented and given an unfair kind of treatment really. So there are increasing amounts of issues and complications in terms of morality with depicting people who are still alive or for whom the history is more recent.
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