"True" Stories That Are Almost Entirely Fictional
There are a ton of movies that purport to be based upon true stories, but how true are the stories, really? One expects dramatic and creative license to be taken with the subject matter, of course, but some allegedly "true" stories bear little to no resemblance to the real-life events that inspired them. So I've done a little research, and have comprised the following list of movies that are marketed as true stories, but are really 99.99% fiction.
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They Died with Their Boots On (1942, Unrated) |
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Stars and Stripes Forever (Marching Along) (1952, Unrated) |
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The Three Faces of Eve (1957, Unrated) |
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962, PG) |
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1776 (1972, PG) |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, R) |
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The Amityville Horror (1979, R) |
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The Elephant Man (1980, PG) |
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Victory (Escape to Victory) (1981, PG) |
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Amadeus (1984, R) |
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The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, R)
I have a big problem with this movie, and no, it isn't necessarily the story element of Jesus wanting to escape His crucifixion. Heck, I can understand Jesus not wanting to be crucified, and the Bible even depicts Jesus, shortly before the event, asking God to spare Him such a grisly fate. No, Jesus' understandable desire to lead a normal life is not what I take issue with. What I take issue with is the way Jesus' character is portrayed throughout the movie. He's constantly shown as being egotistical, prideful, and violent, saying things like "I'm the one who decides who stays and who goes!" and "Once I believed in love. Now I believe in this!" while hoisting an axe over His head. Not only is this a gross and utter mischaracterization of Jesus, but it also renders various authentic Biblical events nonsensical. Take, for example, the scene in which Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey. The real Jesus did this to show His humility and lack of pretension, but the viewer doesn't believe for an instant that Willem Dafoe's arrogant Jesus would be satisfied with anything less than a white stallion. As I was watching this, I felt as if I was watching a movie about Muhammad, not Jesus. It's just a complete and total misfire. |
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Good Morning, Vietnam (1987, R) |
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Lean on Me (1989, PG-13) |
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Rudy (1993, PG) |
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Cool Runnings (1993, PG) |
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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994, PG) |
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Braveheart (1995, R) |
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Pocahontas (1995, G) |
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Pocahontas II - Journey to a New World (1998, Unrated) |
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Elizabeth (1998, R) |
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The Hurricane (1999, R) |
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Noah's Ark (1999, PG-13)
A completely inaccurate retelling of the story of Noah and the flood. Apparently, the filmmakers thought that they needed to flesh out the story with out-of-context events from other places in the Old Testament (I'm rather surprised Goliath didn't show up somewhere, actually). The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is here, along with Abraham's nephew Lot, who, in perhaps the most unforgivable bastardization of all, is portrayed as a ruthless, amoral cutthroat. (In the Bible, Lot was the one good inhabitant of Sodom, and God spared him from the destruction of that city.) |
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Gladiator (2000, R) |
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Quills (2000, R) |
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Pearl Harbor (2001, PG-13) |
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The Last Samurai (2003) (2003, R) |
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Friday Night Lights (2004, PG-13) |
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005, R) |
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The Pursuit of Happyness (2006, PG-13) |
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300 (2007, R) |
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007, PG-13) |
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American Gangster (2007, R) |
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21 (2008, PG-13) |
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The Strangers (2008, R) |
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brando79 posted 44 days ago
whats wrong with topless co-eds ?
MetalMario2 posted 37 days ago
Absolutely nothing. Why do you ask?