Talk:Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (film)

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Historical Inacurracies Needs to be Rewritten
Historical Inacurracies Needs to be Rewritten. The way it is written it is obvious the author makes the assumption that everyone who reads this article has seen the movie and knows the real history of the event. If one has only passing or no knowledge of the movie and event, it is hard to tell whether the article section is talking about what the movie did and was wrong, or what really happened in historical truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theshowmecanuck (talk • contribs) 19:22, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Edit of 11 Dec 2020
I just deleted a small item from the plot summary, that the $20,000 bribe would be "about $530,000 today". A small change but with a lengthy justification, so I'm placing it here instead of the edit summary:

Translating money figures from the past few centuries to modernday values has its uses in articles of historical fact, though it's less useful than Wikipedia often seems to think (because by only accounting for inflation but not purchasing power, we give the reader much less information than we're implying). However, in this situation--discussion of 1957 text set in 1881--it's pretty much meaningless. The movie doesn't depict actual 1881; it depicts a fictional reality created by a 1957 screenwriter for a 1957 audience; but the $530,000 figure treats the make-believe "$20,000" number as representing real 1881 dollars. Did the 1957 screenwriter understand exactly how much $20,000 would have represented to an 1881 cowboy? Did he expect his audience would understand it that way? Or did he just generate a number that he and his audience would both accept as "that sounds like it was a lot of money 75 years ago"? A work of fiction is more representative of the time it was produced than the time in which it's set, but by including "$530,000" we're indicating we don't understand that. Binabik80 (talk) 19:45, 11 December 2020 (UTC)