I respect your distaste for the historical, actual man, but I don't look for history in my entertainment, and I hardly view this movie as a tribute to what a great man Barnum was.
I look at this the same way as I look at Titanic - a popular movie using an historical background to tell a story that had little to do with reality. They probably could just as easily done it without Barnum's name, but they, like Barnum, were savvy, and know how to sell a show. Barnum and Bailey is out of business, forever. I don't have any issue about someone making money off his name and using it to convey (however cynically) another message |
