... and not emotions, and now it's to stir up emotions for political reasons?
Except for the "not" part, you're almost certainly right. People often do things for many reasons, and I'm confident that at least some people involved in this movie had both of the reasons that you're suggesting, and many more. (I doubt that Todd Beamer's father is in it for the money, but his WSJ piece makes it clear that he's supporting the movie because of its implicit political agenda.)
Political agenda's aren't exactly unknown in didactic fiction, or didactic nonfiction. (This movie, from early reports, is pretty clearly a fair historical, taking very few liberties with known facts, and with fair if unknowable implications from the facts.)
My guess is that the political implications and potential popular political influence of it are the source of much of the objections to it, roughly for the same reasons that many people found that awful Mrs. Stowe's rabble-rousing novel so disturbing. (My own guess is that they've far less to worry about than they think that they do, but I'm a cynic, after all.)
First it's for the money...
Except for the "not" part, you're almost certainly right. People often do things for many reasons, and I'm confident that at least some people involved in this movie had both of the reasons that you're suggesting, and many more. (I doubt that Todd Beamer's father is in it for the money, but his WSJ piece makes it clear that he's supporting the movie because of its implicit political agenda.)
Political agenda's aren't exactly unknown in didactic fiction, or didactic nonfiction. (This movie, from early reports, is pretty clearly a fair historical, taking very few liberties with known facts, and with fair if unknowable implications from the facts.)
My guess is that the political implications and potential popular political influence of it are the source of much of the objections to it, roughly for the same reasons that many people found that awful Mrs. Stowe's rabble-rousing novel so disturbing. (My own guess is that they've far less to worry about than they think that they do, but I'm a cynic, after all.)