I often hear people complaining about how historical movies make

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2016-10-20 05:56:44 Post No. 1849573
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I often hear people complaining about how historical movies make their protagonists more 'moral' by modern standards to appeal to a modern audience. Also that such people wouldn't pass muster as being "good people" by modern standards, even if they would be considered such at the time. So I have a question for /his/: what pre-20th century historical figure could be made a genuine hero of a movie or TV show or whatever, without blatantly white washing them? What historically significant person qualifies as a good person by 21st century standards?

Pic related is the closest I've found.

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>>1849573
THE MAID OF ORLEANS

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:01:52 Post No.1849582
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Ben 'Hang-em-all' Grierson

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:02:16 Post No.1849586
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>>1849573
Alcibiades, if you dislike Alcibiades it's only because you're jealous of him. Just like those Athenian fags who framed him for breaking dicks off holy statues.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:05:29 Post No.1849593
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>>1849573
Saladin. Not even kidding. He was virtuous enough to get genuine respect from Christen Europe in the middle of a Holy War.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:05:58 Post No.1849597
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>>1849582
Good choice.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:10:08 Post No.1849606
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>>1849573
Grants presidential administration was the most corrupt in US history

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:21:36 Post No.1849634
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>>1849606
That would be Harding actually although both of them being Ohioans is no coincidence

Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:23:27 Post No.1849637
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Anonymous 2016-10-20 06:23:27 Post No.1849637 [Report]

Emperor Norton.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 15:06:46 Post No.1850658
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>>1849637
Nobody sees him as a bad person though.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 18:22:55 Post No.1851429
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>>1849597
Saint. You wouldn't even need to change him.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 18:31:12 Post No.1851473
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>>1849606
He personally wasn't complicit in the scandals involved, though.

Anonymous 2016-10-20 18:32:05 Post No.1851477
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>>1849593

Didn't they dickrode Nur ad-din more?

Anonymous 2016-10-20 19:18:27 Post No.1851687
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>>1849573
>Pic related is the closest I've found.

Is this a bait post? The only person from the civil war period that would stand up to modern moral faggotry would probably be Thaddeus Stevens or Frederick Douglass. Even Sumner looks like an asshole from a modern perspective.

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