Bringing Modern Politics Into A Historical Setting

Why would someone do this? I don't care how violent, racist or sexist the past was, depict the way it was. Why can't movies/tv shows depict a historical setting the way it was? It's immersion breaking to see modern politics.

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[Fatail]

Sadly, there's that thing called agenda. People will do a lot to further their own goals or gain any kind of power, be it influence or material goods. The shows and movies can depict truth, but don't want to, and won't. History is always written by the winners, and truth... truth is relative.

SADLY, not everyone is as nice as you are, Bendy.

[Linkonpark100]

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Add to the fact that this practically becomes a problem in creative writing as such anachronisms limits creativity.

[Herald of Opera]

Let's not forget the tendency to bring modern politics into a fantastical world whose underpinnings are different enough to invalidate said politics, and then desperately trying to pretend that the second part isn't true.

[Gundamfan]

Like the brilliant move DICE and EA did with Battlefield 5, shoving black, Asian female soldiers into a war dominated by white male soldiers, and despite mentioning the swastika only once in the campaign, not having a single swastika in the entire game?

Man, older WW2 games were so much better in terms of historical accuracy. If Wolfenstein 3D (1992) was done today, it would probably be the SNES port.

Was there a video game or movie you recently watched that got you to post this?

[Herald of Opera]

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Seriously though, the swastika is offensive because Nazis, but if you're already explicitly using Nazi Germany as your villain why censor the symbols but leave in all of the behavior? That's just plain bass-ackwards.