Conveying History in the Modern World.

This cracked me up at first and then I started to wonder if history is being distorted by contemporary media. Our guide at both Gallipoli and Troy used our experience of movies to explain our history. So he would say things like… You know in the movie when Mel Gibson……. (and we would all nod knowingly) Another great one was when he was explaining the change of the geography with the creation of an alluvial plain around Troy and he said, You know when Brad Pitt jumps off his boat and runs up the beach right into Troy in the movie well that was before the river brought all the soil down and pushed the beach out.

I wonder if history will be distorted by this.