Americans love to take our history and icons and rewrite them in their image. There are lots of examples.
The movie Canadian Pacific was supposed to be about building the CPR across the west. According to the movie the railroad was plagued by marauding Indians constantly driven off by cowboys with six guns.
There is the movie Argo where the bravery of the Canadian diplomats in Iran is considered trivial compared to the heroism of the CIA
And the latest straw is the newest American publishing of Anne of Green Gables where they have changed Anne from a little red haired girl to a blond bombshell . Not the Anne that my daughters loved to read about.
Oh the horror
February 7, 2013
rbellis11
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4 responses to “American Rewriting Canadian History”
James
February 8th, 2013 at 12:22
To be pedantic they changed her image in the cover art. The text of the books still depicts her as a red-head. It’s all marketing…
rbellis11
February 8th, 2013 at 22:39
Pedantic….. Pedantic… what are you an English major. When a guy has a rant what has pure accuracy have to do with it?
Am I pedantic when in the movie The Devils Brigade based on the true story of a specialty force formed in WWII made up of Canadian and American elite army units where every Canadian soldier has a Scottish accent and not one of them says eh? I do not think so.
James
February 13th, 2013 at 12:49
I would think, Father, that given how you earned your retirement nest egg, you’d be a little more tolerant of the needs of marketers to dress up their product to increase sales… ;p
Meagan Hampel
February 8th, 2013 at 13:26
And by “read about”, you of course mean “watch the movie version of”, right?