The response separates the Napoleon film's value for a general audience from the experience of watching it as a specialist. Popular films can draw people into history, even when a subject expert spends the screening noticing errors instead of following the drama. A preference for genres outside one's research area shows how expertise can make suspension of disbelief harder without making popular historical cinema worthless.
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Why historical films challenge specialist viewers
Popular historical films can attract new audiences even when specialists find factual errors too distracting for immersion.