![]() ![]() On his misdeeds, he whined that it was "just a movie" and "fiction." In a country that Getting the truth out where the American people could see it. Original setting, and he haunted every talk show spouting off about how he was finally However, in JFK he left everyone in their Material from the source story as I did with Homecoming or the Alvin Maker stories, heĬould do that with impunity (though I don't). Man never confessed, and yet he showed him confessing. Plot to assassinate Kennedy, Stone shows confessing. ![]() Who denied to his deathbed that he had anything to do with or knew anything about any Telling and especially with some of the real people he portrayed. Merely say that as I understand it, Stone took enormous liberties with the story he was Better researchers than I have eviscerated his mistreatment of history, so let me Oliver Stone crossed the line much farther, I think, with his film I think that's juvenile and cheap, but that's a review, Practically everyone whoĭoes a story about the life of Jesus these days seems to feel obliged to make Judas the There are writers who feel no such compunction, of course. Make his motives gibe with Joseph Smith's motives. Morally questionable than things Joseph Smith actually did, and insofar as possible, I Understand him through research - I don't ever have Alvin do anything that is more Nevertheless try to remain true to his personality and character as I have come to Likewise,even though I depart widely from Joseph Smith's life in the Alvin Maker stories, I Motive to someone for their actions, I stuck to the motive given by the book. Remain good, the bad guys remain bad, and whenever the original source ascribed a Therefore I bound myself strictly by the moral stance of the original - the good guys For instance, because I believe theīook of Mormon to be what it purports to be - a modern translation of a genuineĪncient document, created under divine direction - I felt a great responsibility inĪdapting it to a new setting, even though I knew few readers would get the connection. Still, I feel a sense of responsibility toward the facts. Perfectly safe - drastic enough changes make it so the reader does not expect to be getting ![]() Point on a historical source, as I did in basing the plot of the Homecoming series on theįirst portion of the Book of Mormon, as long as you make drastic changes you are If you base a character on a real person, as I did in basing some ofĪlvin's life on incidents from the life of Joseph Smith, or even base a story point for When your story is at a far remove from the original facts, then you canĭo what you want. Ethically, I think you need to take someĬare for the sake of your readers and for the sake of the reputations of other people -Įven the dead. Original research.) And when you base a story on a factual source, like history, you canĬhange it any way you want - legally, that is. (That's why mapmakers and phone directory publishers insert falseĭata - in order to prove that catch someone else copying instead of doing their own You can only copyright the language used to ![]()
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