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Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

Yes or no? I know that's vague, but sometimes I feel that movies based on true stories just... don't flow together and follow a plot that ultimately, for better or worse, resolves. Maybe that's just me thinking in the lines, and I should get outside the box a bit, but I feel like sitting on a piano and writing down the keys doesn't necessarily qualify as a good song, and neither do all "true stories" make great fiction.

There's also the whole thing of editing reality to try to make it a cohesive story, and risking making assumptions about sensitive events, and pigeon-holing real people into roles for the flow of the movie that the people in question object to (and it seems like there's some controversy in every "based on a true story" movie).

Mostly inspired because I just watched Kill Your Darlings because Netflix recommended it to me. Which I found pretty interesting until I looked up more information about it and read controversies in certain characters' portrayals.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the movie. Some reality-based movies are things that just really, really, really, really ought to/had to exist (eg, All The President's Men).

Others...well, I always liked how American Hustle started with the caption 'Some Of This Actually Happened.' Best way to tell a story based on reality -- acknowledge it's not all authentic from the start, make it more about the point of the story than the particulars.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[kallanda_lee]

I think that, even when a story i based on real event, you have to keep in mind it's a dramatization.

They didn't really say THAT to their wife, or they did THIS but in another context, but it was changed for story purposes.

I think it can be an interesting way to look at certain historical events or people, but never should be taken as "the truth" - it's still a work of fiction.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[kaijinscendre]

Just depends on how well it is done. I don't mind if they take some creative liberties. I love Schindler's List, Catch Me If You Can, and Beautiful Mind. But some suck.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[cushlamochree]

It does seem like they're harder to make. That doesn't mean you shouldn't make them, but perhaps there is something about balancing the historical reality of whatever the subject is with the demands of drama that makes it trickier.

But hey, even if they're imperfect, they're often pretty interesting.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[nayance]

I like this, think that creative liberties are absolutely necessary in order to tell a good story - and when it comes to things like this, entertainment value is more important than staying 100% true to real life events.

The problem comes when changes or additions drastically alter the story, or imply things that are outright not true and misrepresent a person a downright stupid degree. If you were telling a story about a guy who was gay and you not only didn't mention it, but wrote in a female love interest - I use this example because I remember reading about something like that happening a few years back. I'd be less put off by omitting that detail if not for the fact that it's a blatant misrepresentation. On the other hand, I wouldn't be as bothered by stories that were about, say, a particular scientist, and the story skewed the importance of everyone involved - downplaying the role of some people in favor of heightening the importance of the main character. For the sake of a story, I think this is all right.

What I'm thinking about right now is The Social Network, which overall does justice to the general order of events that happened, but went ahead and personalized Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin and drastically rewrote certain people's personality. I think that's all right.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

When a movie says it's based on a true story, I mentally check out. I'll spend the entire time wondering how much of the story could conceivably be true, etc. It's a bias.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of like them as entertainment, but I wish people wouldn't take them as the true story itself. There is one that is actually about something that happened in my former hometown, so I kind of know people who know people who were directly involved and from what I've heard and read, the movie was extremely biased. So it's irritating when I hear people talking about it like it's the truth.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

I only like the ones about some inspiring girl and her horse. There are quite a few of them, and they tend to be pretty good.

Re: Movies based on true stories

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. YES!!!