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How can a goof addition be turned down when it is based on FACTS!?
Ref: #220427-052758-972000
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The attempt on Piero's life at the beginning NEVER happened. There was an attempt three years earlier (1466) to overthrow the Medici by Luca Pitti and his supporters but it fell apart without any bloodshed. Just as in season 1, the setup for the second season is based on false information.
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Reference the book "Magnifico, The Brilliant Land and Violent Times of Lorenzo De' Medici" by Miles J. Unger, chapter 1. There was no attempt to overthrow the Medici in 1469 after the death of Piero.
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First off, instead of saying it doesn't meet contribution guidelines, state EXACTLY what the problem is in declining the addition! Saying it doesn't meet guidelines doesn't mean a thing unless you say what it the problem is. I noticed that I slightly messed up the title of the book, it should be Brilliant Life and not Brilliant Land, but it still does not take away from the fact that the assasination attempt on Piero "The Gouty" Medici as seen in S02E01 of the Medici NEVER HAPPENED! An attempt to overthrow the Medici took place in 1466 but fell apart with no bloodshed. That is the thrust of the entire first chapter of the book. Piero Medici did die in 1469, as shown in the family tree on page 451 in the book, but it was due to complications from the gout that he was suffering from, and what also eventually killed Lorenzo "The Magnificent" Medici.





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Michelle
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4 years ago
Hi e8n2 -
Goofs are unintentional errors within the filmmaking process, given that this is a fictionalized series, as Adrian mentioned above we make big allowances for artistic license and suspension of disbelief.
As this was an intentional plot choice verses an unintentional factual error, this submission is better suited to be added as a Trivia item on the episode title page.
Cheers!
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adrian
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4 years ago
Because artistic license and not sticking strictly to history or source material isn't a goof. It's even listed in the guide for goofs.
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eboy
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4 years ago
You feel that movies should follow the historical facts as much as possible. That’s fine, since people can make their own decisions what to watch.
But what is ”goof” on IMDb is a bit different thing.
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eboy
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4 years ago
People shouldn’t be ”learning” history by watching fictional movies. Since they’re always fictional, even the ones that are (or at least try to be) based on so-called historical facts. There are plenty of facts and research, but also fictional and dramatized segments, and ”artistic licenses”. Most also have a mixed casting with ”real” and ”fictional” characters (some are somewhere in-between). That’s why they’re called movies: facts and fiction.
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