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A number of people have already made comments on this but I, too, have something to say about Matthew McConaughey's Baldwin. As we learned in class yesterday, Baldwin was a Yale educated lawyer, ''known'' for defending the unfortunate. If his name was already well known in society than he had to have been around for a few years. As we learn every week, it is up to the discretion of the film makers as to how a certain character should look/talk/act etc. but I just found this typical, romanticized Hollywood to have an up and coming actor play an up and coming lawyer. -- Mallory C. | A number of people have already made comments on this but I, too, have something to say about Matthew McConaughey's Baldwin. As we learned in class yesterday, Baldwin was a Yale educated lawyer, ''known'' for defending the unfortunate. If his name was already well known in society than he had to have been around for a few years. As we learn every week, it is up to the discretion of the film makers as to how a certain character should look/talk/act etc. but I just found this typical, romanticized Hollywood to have an up and coming actor play an up and coming lawyer. -- Mallory C. | ||
| + | Was it accurate to have Evangelicals wearing crosses? I was under the impression that wearing a cross was much more prevalent in Catholicism and that it was more common for Evangelicals to carry around Bibles. -- Mallory C. | ||
== 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | == 2 Film's relationship to current scholarship or to primary sources from the time == | ||
