"based on a true story"

>"based on a true story"
>basically everything is changed from the original story

What are some of the most egregious examples of this?

The Blind Side

The Entity (1981)

Any horror movie

Braveheart

Hidden Figures

This arouses me a lot.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Because it never happened at all.

But yeah, pretty much this.

The Conjuring 1 and 2. Fuck the Warrens.

American Sniper

We Bought a Zoo. Asian family was made into Matt Damon's white family for the film, a romance subplot involving zookeeper ScarJo was added because they made the guy's wife dead, when in reality she was alive and well.

U5-71

Fargo. But it was even realer than real life. Really made me think.

Noah

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Return of the Night of the Living Dead

My 1980s kid self FREAKED THE FUCK OUT when reading that and watching the movie.

Any Holocaust film.

Godzilla (1998). The only real part is that a giant sea monster attacked New York city, Matthew Broderick wasn't involved in any way irl.

I'd say the biggest one would be The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. none of it ever happened in Texas, and Ed Gein wasnt even remotely the way he was portrayed.

Hacksaw ridge

Drive (2011)

this desu

Ben Hurr.

Th real Judah ben Hurr saw the pre-incarnation of Gandhi, not Jesus like in the flick.

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The Lion King

I remember watching a horror movie quite a while ago (I think it was french, but I could be wrong), it was about a large group of little kids terrorizing and attacking a couple during the night while they were staying in this big fancy house in the middle of nowhere, and it said it was based on a true story.
I thought it sounded interesting and when to research it, and apparently it was based on some case where a couple of teenager thugs killed some tourists or something similar while trying to rob them, basically a "generic" criminals murdering someone crime.

schindler's list,catch me if you can,narcos(tv show),

>french

Into the trash it goes!

Any movies meant to build up the black community: The Butler, Hidden Figures (egregious), etc.

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all of them, the actors are always more attractive than the real people

You must not know the story on this AT ALL. It was pure marketing scheme because not a single distributor wanted this movie. It was never marketed as a story based on Gein. They simply loosely based the character on him because of the skin and hillbilly house Gein lived in. Along with the meat hooks with bodies.

They marketed as a true story to fuck with people and to scare them. It wasn't at attempt like nowadays where based on true stories/events are fabricated completely.

Yep that was it.

Dallas Buyer's Club

Neither the trannie or the female doctor characters were real, they were just made up for the film and Leto won a fucking oscar for it.

Same with Trumbo and Louis Cuck's characters, fully made up.

The thing I hate the most, fictional characters in biopics, fuck dammit.

The Social Network
Ironically, it's the best film of the decade despite that

A Beautiful Mind was 80% bullshit.

The rest were the names.

47 ronin.

There wasn't a dragon in the real events.

It's not even the best Fincher movie of the decade.

Didn't mean to quote

it's ok

well it's based on the ed gein case, a dude who also made a leathface out of human corpses. everything else is made up though.

No, it isn't.

Argo

The countries embassies that turned them away in the film actually helped them IRL

I bought the book for $0.50

should I read it?

Foxcatcher

I think they took a few liberties with this one.

Depends. Do you enjoy long, boring, badly written garbage?

My dad fucking loathes that movie for this reason. He can't stand Affleck as a director 'cause of it.

I think the film was solid though.

Is your father a fucking diplomat or something?

Not necessarily

Zero Dark Thirty. literally CIA propaganda.

I've already said too much...

Naw, he just found it insulting.

Then you'll probably love it, give it a try.

The entire title sequence literally sets up the show to be one of those realistic drama-documentaries, then as you watch and the show becomes less and less plausible, to the point where you start thinking "bullshit that did not happen", then finally you look into whether it actually was based on true events and find out it's an all out fabrication and feel cheated.

Patch Adams

He was no where near the clown Robin Williams made him out to be.

kek

>Dallas Buyer's Club
The pacing is utter shit because they try to follow real events too closely.

>Fire In the Sky

Travis Walton's "real" story of the abduction reads like bad 50's B-movie sci-fi and would have never made a scary horror film.

that movie fucked me up as a kid.

Argo

it wasn't a horror story, thus wasn't mean to be a horror film. the studio forced rewrites to make it "scary"

Heaven's Gate

>find out it's an all out fabrication and feel cheated

If you're dumb maybe. I found that out and laughed my ass off that I'd been tricked so thoroughly and I bought all this BS just because it said "based on a true events". Its trying to teach you not to buy into those kinds of Hollywood tricks

But that doesn't matter because the making of Heaven's Gate was far more interesting

ungrateful pleb

(((them)))

If you are going to watch a movie for true events and a history lesson then you're probably one of the stupidest *beep* in the world. I feel missed the last place you should look for truth.

It's amazing how no one cares how historically inaccurate Braveheart or any of these movies filmed in Africa with all white cast on. But everybody wants to talk about the accuracy of this film.

And for the record dumbass just because something is not shown in a film doesn't mean it didn't happen. You don't see people taking a dump in these films either. But thats doesn't mean nobody *beep*

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It's a film, who gives a shit? If I wanted supposed ""truth"" I'd watch a documentary.

Remember that one guy who claimed he went back in time and found a bunch of lost Beatle's tapes? They should make a movie about that guy's fantasies like fire in the Sky.

this. truth is the winner's word

The ten commandments
Batman begins

I love Disney's Hercules but I know it pisses a lot of nerds off because of the inaccuracies

disinfo

How is Hercules based on a true story?

it's real life mythology

Whoah chill out, I never said that inaccuracy makes a movie bad, I just find it amusing. For example, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is ostensibly based on real events but even though it's largely inaccurate it is still a classic.

I just feel writing 'based on a true story' at the end of a film or on a poster is kind of incidental to the actual quality of a film as a work of art, and is often just an advertising ploy. You shouldn't have to say 'based on a true story' to shill your film if it's a good film anyways and you made most of it up.

Elephant Man

>Joseph Merrick was friends and worked in tandem with his agent to make money
>he didnt like being couped up in a hospital
>actually wanted to be on the freak show circuit but middle class doctor didnt like it
>he wasn't beaten or harrassed in a any of the other things in the movie
>he couldn't shout, which he does
>list goes on etc

still, amazing film

"Your skeleton will be bought by a crazy pedophile with a monkey."