I have a question group.
Why is it that S Hayes is a fake. What happened?
-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony J. Bryant" <
ajbryant@...>
Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 02:23:53
To:
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Subject: Re: [samuraihistory] New Ninja documentary
Richardson Paul wrote:
> Until you have seen it you havent a lcue what your
> talking about. I also think that when you have seen it
> you will be so wound up by what I have said that you
> will still hate it.
If I hear someone has made a documentary about Auschwitz and a key publicized
contributor to the documentary was a famous Holocaust-debunker, I wouldn't have
to see the video to know that it's likely crap. Or, at least, it contains more
crap (in this case, any unit over "one") than I care to see.
Don't you get it? In anything that claims to be a *real* documentary or history
of ninja, *mentioning* Hayes can be done -- in the context of fraud and total
bogusness. But to use him as one of the sources and actually present him as one
automatically makes the film suspect.
It's the job of the producers to make people want to see it, and as a historian
specializing in Japan's military history, I find the inclusion of Hayes in *any*
documentary suspect. I have no interest in seeing it. It's not *my* fault I
don't trust him or anything connected with him. It's the producers who made that
choice.
Tony
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