"Audiences are generally used to a little bending of the truth with most historical fiction. Matt Damon's character in Air never drove to Michael Jordan's family home before signing the young basketball player to Nike. I doubt that Napoleon ever oinked at Josephine like she does in Ridley Scott's 2023 film, and I don't think random soldiers on the battlefield during the American Civil War in Lincoln were learned to recite the Gettysburg Address by heart."
"In an op-ed for The Times, Molly Guinness (Edward Guinness's great-great-granddaughter) called the Netflix drama unjust. All the characters come straight from a bingo card of modern cliches about rich people, she continued. Every episode starts with the weaselly old Netflix disclaimer This fiction is inspired by true stories,' so it's artI supposeand I shouldn't be a bore. Yet the more I watched, the more indignant I became."
House of Guinness presents a dramatized account of the Guinness heirs in the late 1800s that fabricates much of the family's life to create television drama. Creator Steven Knight said he used real actions, sayings, achievements, and mistakes as steppingstones and filled gaps with invented material, drawing on Peaky Blinders experience and conversations with living descendants. The series adds criminal and political intrigue and embraces conventional dramatic inventions common in historical fiction. Some descendants object; Molly Guinness called the drama unjust, accused it of using modern clichés about the rich, and criticized fictional characters such as Sean Rafferty and an invented portrayal of Arthur's sexuality.
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