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Post by serena on Aug 25, 2023 17:16:59 GMT -5
I'm re-watching The Crucible and I've seen the play twice. I know it's not a true account of what happened but people say the other movies about the Salem Witch Trials, like the one with Kirstie Alley, that claims to be a true account, are mostly fiction, too. What exactly in The Crucible and the other movies isn't accurate?
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Post by catherine on Aug 25, 2023 17:44:57 GMT -5
I'm re-watching The Crucible and I've seen the play twice. I know it's not a true account of what happened but people say the other movies about the Salem Witch Trials, like the one with Kirstie Alley, that claims to be a true account, are mostly fiction, too. What exactly in the The Crucible and the other movies isn't accurate? |
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Post by kitty on Aug 25, 2023 19:39:15 GMT -5
In the Kirstie Alley movie, the black actress, Gloria Reuben, who played Tituba, was dressed better than Ann Putnam and most of the other villagers, and she walked to the graveyard with the baby's body along with the Putnams and other people in the community. In real life, she would probably have stayed home to cook and do housework, or if she did go to the funeral, she would have walked with other servants, not with the village leaders.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 26, 2023 10:43:07 GMT -5
I'm re-watching The Crucible and I've seen the play twice. I know it's not a true account of what happened but people say the other movies about the Salem Witch Trials, like the one with Kirstie Alley, that claims to be a true account, are mostly fiction, too. What exactly in the The Crucible and the other movies isn't accurate? |
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Post by Kate on Aug 26, 2023 12:34:57 GMT -5
One of the most accurate films about the Salem Witch Trials was Three Sovereigns for Sarah, a 1985 TV movie starring Vanessa Redgrave, but some of the events, such as the pressing death of Giles Corey, were out of sequence. And, of course, Sarah Cloyce, the main character, wasn’t the educated, outspoken woman depicted in the movie. I noticed that. In the movie, Giles Corey was pressed to death before Rebecca Nurse was hanged, but she was hanged on July 19th and he wasn't pressed to death until September 19th. The meeting house replica, which was built especially for the movie, at the Rebecca Nurse farm, is interesting, and I recommend it to anyone visiting Salem. Actually, it's in Danvers, which was known as Salem Village at the time of the trials, but it's only 5 miles from Salem Town.
The Kirstie Alley movie, which was called Salem Witch Trials, was centered around the wife of Joseph Putnam. In the movie, she was a close friend of the Rev. Parris, even though there's no evidence that she was, and she was accused of witchcraft, even though she wasn't. Another thing I don't understand is why everyone seems to think that most of Ann Putnam's children died at birth: she had around 10 or 11 children and only one died shortly after birth.
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Post by Graveyardbride on Aug 26, 2023 15:56:33 GMT -5
The Kirstie Alley movie, which was called Salem Witch Trials, was centered around the wife of Joseph Putnam. In the movie, she was a close friend of the Rev. Parris, even though there's no evidence that she was, and she was accused of witchcraft, even though she wasn't. Another thing I don't understand is why everyone seems to think that most of Ann Putnam's children died at birth: she had around 10 or 11 children and only one died shortly after birth.
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