The Crushing Disappointment of The Irishman

[David Andrews]

Listen: in The Best Years of Our Lives, Harold Russell, the WW II vet who played the wounded soldier with no hands, didn't lose his hands in combat as the character did, but lost them in a munitions handling accident at a stateside military base. In Goodfellas, the lead character, Henry Hill, was not in real life the eyes-wide-shut innocent portrayed by Ray Liotta, but a lowlife scumbag. And Spartacus was likely not a toothy, high-cheekboned blonde guy with a mullet, as Kirk Douglas incarnated him. He probably died in battle and was not poignantly crucified by the Romans. It's only a movie. No young people are going to pay to see the last CGI hurrah of the Over-the-Hill Gang, so history will not be irretrievably corrupted.