It's Just a Movie!

The makers of the entertaining British film "The Lost King," which dramatized the discovery of the remains of King Richard III, have paid a substantial settlement to a British academic who was set up as the stuffy, snobbish pukka-academic who derides the plucky amateur Philippa Longley and her dream  -- eventually successful -- of finding the king's grave beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England.

Henceforth the film, featuring Sally Hawkins as the amateur, will begin with a disclaimer

Whilst in this film there is a character called Richard Taylor who is shown to be an employee of the University of Leicester, the portrayal of him is fictional and does not represent the actions of the real Mr Taylor, who was employed by the University of Leicester as its deputy registrar, and acted with integrity during the events portrayed.

Ouch!

I'm in two minds about this. I can see the point of the university guy unfairly typecast as, well, as the university guy. But, you know, it's a movie.  If you want to know the truth of history, you need to read and study history.  The job of a movie is to tell a story, and you are crazy to take it for an accurate account of anything.  Same with novels, for that matter. History doesn't tell the truth, but it searches for it. Movies and fiction, they imagine a truth. Totally different thing.