History Main / RoseTintedNarrative

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''"Rose tint my world. Keep me safe from my trouble and pain."'' - TheRockyHorrorShow

''"Rose tint my world. Keep me safe from my trouble and pain."'' - {{The Rocky Horror Show}}

* ''[=~300~=]''. Notably, the way in which the Spartans were [[HistoricalHeroUpgrade beatified]] as ultimate badasses and the Persians were [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade vilified]] as subhuman monsters had some [[UnfortunateImplications deeply racist undertones]], given the current tension between the West and the Middle East.

** ''ARoseForEmily'' is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel particularly disturbing]] allegorical {{Deconstruction}} of this trope being applied to the antebellum southern US.

* ''TheGodfather'' has often been accused of romanticizing the Mafia (not the violent parts, but other parts of the movies).

** MarkTwain's ''AdventuresOfTomSawyer'', and, to an even greater extent, ''Adventures of Huck Finn'', are the work of an author trying to reconcile his nostalgia for the old South with his knowledge that slavery is bad.

** MarkTwain's ''Adventures of Tom Sawyer'', and, to an even greater extent, ''Adventures of Huck Finn'', are the work of an author trying to reconcile his nostalgia for the old South with his knowledge that slavery is bad.
** ARoseForEmily is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel particularly disturbing]] allegorical {{Deconstruction}} of this trope being applied to the antebellum southern US.

** "A Rose For Emily" is a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel particularly disturbing]] allegorical {{Deconstruction}} of this trope being applied to the antebellum South.

** ''{{Goodfellas}}'' and ''{{Casino}}'' could be a {{deconstruction}}s of this kind of portrayal.

* The opening narration of GoneLikeTheWind is the ''definition'' of RoseTintedNarrative, glamorizing the OldSouth as a wondrous fairytale land of "cavaliers" and gentlemen, and completely ignoring...well you know.

Compare "TheThemeParkVersion", "PoliticallyCorrectHistory", "[[HistoricalHeroUpgrade Historical Hero]]/[[HistoricalVillainUpgrade Villain Upgrade]]". May lead to "[=~The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything~=]" if part of the romanticization requires the people to not do the evil parts of the job. Contrast "{{Demonization}}".

* Anime in general tend to Tint 19th-century Europe with [[{{Egregious}} egre-]] err, copious amount of Roses. If an anime is ([[TheThemeParkVersion supposed to be]]) taking place in VictorianBritain, expect everyone to dress garishly and the social anxiety greatly downplayed.

** Given that the tendency in East/West wars in the region has generally been a comprehensive butchering of the East's military forces from then to the present day, this trope is really not far off the truth in terms of reflecting purely military capability.
*** This isn't true at all. Up until the late 17th Century it was usually the Middle Easterners kicking European ass barring one or two Cruades. Pre Fall of Rome they were on pretty equal footing for the majority of their existence up until the 2nd CE. Pre Alexander, it was the Middle Easterners dominating everything.

* Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice were accused of doing this with ''{{Evita}}''. And they were bashed by people in Argentina for not doing it enough.

** Really, it's brutally averted, in that the story does nothing to hide the fact that the Spartans were racist, jingoistic fascists. When [[FramingDevice the in-universe narrator]] is proud of his people committing infanticide as part of a military eugenics program, it's a safe bet he's [[UnreliableNarrator not meant to be viewed as sane.]]
*** That's not really fair. Given Frank Miller's politics, this maybe something he admires. It's one of the main reasons his fan base abandoned him.

** Really, it's brutally averted, in that the story does nothing to hide the idea that the Spartans were racist, jingoistic fascists. When [[FramingDevice the in-universe narrator]] is proud of his people committing infanticide as part of a military eugenics program, it's a safe bet he's [[UnreliableNarrator not meant to be viewed as sane.]]

* If it isn't by AkiraKurosawa, Yoji Yamada, Masaki Kobayashi, Hideo Gosha or Kenji Mizoguchi, almost any film, anime or otherwise set in the Feudal Era of Japan will do this.

* If it isn't by AkiraKurosawa, Masaki Kobayashi, Hideo Gosha or Kenji Mizoguchi, almost any film, anime or otherwise set in the Feudal Era of Japan will do this.

* If it isn't by AkiraKurosawa, almost any film, anime or otherwise set in the Feudal Era of Japan will do this.

** Which is entirely accurate.

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*''GoneWithTheWind'', especially the film, romanticizes the antebellum United States South. For that matter, just about every form of media regarding that era made in the South, due to [[EnforcedTrope many people in the south not being that long after the war or reconstruction]]).