everyone loves a good biopic they can make us think and cry inspire us to
greatness and have us cheering in the aisles but they are based on a true
story which means the filmmakers do take a few liberties with the truth yes here
are a few bow pics that have either exaggerate a certain true life details
for dramatic purposes or flat-out invented things entirely
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let's start our list with the 1996 Best
Picture winner Braveheart no Gibson directs and stars in the film as William
Wallace whose fight for Scottish independence and Liberty from England
cost him his life speaking of Liberty's this film certainly takes a few first
Wallace's nickname wasn't actually Braveheart the face paint and kilts are
about 300 years off the costumes aren't period at all and Isabella of France
wasn't even ten years old when the events of the movie happened so she
couldn't have been carrying William's child also Wallace wasn't a commoner
raised by his uncle but rather a nobleman trained for battle those bloody
battle scenes sure feel realistic though
[laughter]
The Social Network is up next it tells
the story of how Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook
Welcome to Facebook [cheers]
in the movie from director
David Fincher and writer Aaron Sorkin we're led to believe that he starts this
social media juggernaut in an attempt to win back his ex-girlfriend in real life
however Zuckerberg was already dating his future wife when the events of the
movie take place also he's presented as this socially awkward opportunist with
no regard for other people's feelings when according to most accounts he was
actually a nice guy in terms of outward demeanour Zuckerberg claims that the
only thing the movie got right was his wardrobe
doesn't anybody have a sense of humor?
Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side
in the movie Tuohy's family takes in trouble teen Michael Oher and helps him
overcome a number of life obstacles Bullock's Tuohy encourages Oher to take up
football in the film which leads him to eventually playing in the NFL but this
is a total fabrication
You can thank me later
Oher was already being scouted long before
the Tuohys entered his life the film actually credits Oher's personal
accomplishments and ambitions all to the Tuohy family which irked Oher in real life he
stated in later interviews that the movie didn't accurately portray him or
his life at all
Zack Snyder's 300 tells the story of
the Battle of Thermopylae
This is where they die!
the film is based on Frank Miller's graphic novel
but that doesn't excuse it from using battle rhinos whatever those guys would
saw for arms were or turning the real-life Xerces into a pierced giant
villain also the Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae we're closer to
5,000 or 6,000 not 300
Snyder has boasted that the movie is "90% accurate"
and that historians loved it well maybe they did but most likely not
because of its historical accuracy
and finally we've come to The Greatest Showman
this surprising box-office smash stars Hugh Jackman as PT Barnum the
young and charming man who seeks to be a champion of acceptance and tolerance
through his show however this film has a circus tent full of inaccuracies Barnum
was actually 60 years old when he started his show he never actually
publicly cheated on his wife with singer Jenny Lind and Lind quit the tour not
because Barnum rejected her advances but because she didn't like how relentlessly
he was marketing her also Zac Efron's Philip Carlisle and Zendaya's Ann Wheeler
are completely fictitious characters and Sam Humphrey's General Tom Thumb
was actually four years old when he was recruited and not 22 as we see in
the movie Thumb was real though along with the bearded lady and the dog boy so
there is that...
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so what do you think? which of these biopics
inaccuracies bother you the most?
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