Films entertain, but they also inform. Because the primary goal is entertainment, often the information conveyed is skewed or intentionally changed to fit the medium. In a discussion of film as a teaching tool, Joseph E. Champoux, Regents' Professor of Management at The University of New Mexico, notes: "

Pop culture is responsible, in large part, for the difficulty the average person has with understanding what it takes to do anything outside their sphere of knowledge. We all do it because entertainment serves as shorthand knowledge. Policemen like doughnuts. Teachers are babysitters. Interpreters do direct translation. The use of