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our picks for the top 10 movies based on
a true story that got it wrong
maybe you are a fraud maybe it was just
about making a buck
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studio 6 productions for this list we'll
be looking at various movies purportedly
based on true stories that skewed and
warped the facts
can you think of any other supposedly
true story that played it fast and loose
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number 10 gangs of new york to defeat my
enemy
i extinguish his life and consume him as
i consume these flames
this martin scorsese epic was based on
herbert asburys
the gangs of new york an informal
history of the underworld which was
published in 1927.
one of the major departures from reality
is the depiction of bill the butcher
bill is based on the historic william
poole but poole was murdered a decade
before the draft riots began
and reportedly never killed anyone now
you tasted my mutton how do you like it
huh
in fact the level of violence in general
was often criticized as being a pure
hollywood fabrication
the massive gang fight depicted at the
beginning of the film is also entirely
fictional
but gang battles did occur on occasion
there were also no navy
ships to quell the riots and the amount
of chinese americans in new york was
greatly exaggerated
number nine cool runnings this feel-good
comedy concerns the debut of the
jamaican bobsledding team
at the 1988 calgary winter olympics
suffice it to say
it has been very disney fied the biggest
fabrication
is the bobsled competition itself oh
this is good for one thing the jamaican
athletes were not treated as
outsiders and the american team even
helped them out by lending them a sled
secondly the team had absolutely no shot
at winning a medal
despite what the movie would have you
believe now the speed seems too much and
i don't think he's going to be able to
hold it the crash was
also not the result of a mechanical
failure but shoddy and inexperienced
driving
and that feel good crossing of the
finish line to raucous applause
yeah it was more of a defeated limp with
sporadic and tepid encouragement
a disappointment for them i'm sure that
they're not able to complete the event
but maybe they should just be thankful
that they're able to walk away number
eight
the imitation game in this film benedict
cumberbatch portrays
alan turing a genius who revolutionized
the concept of theoretical computer
science
and helped decrypt german messages
during world war ii
even before the movie was released it
received controversy for downplaying
turing's homosexuality and casting
bombshell kiera knightley as the
so-called
plain joan clark i am a candidate for
opposition
and while turing did have eccentricities
he wasn't nearly as socially awkward as
portrayed in the film
turing's supposed suicide is also
extensively debated to this day
with some experts even claiming that his
death was purely accidental
and that's not even touching on all the
enigma inaccuracies
like portraying turing as a one-man
force when he was actually part of a
massive collaboration
exactly number seven rudy
despite being an exceptional and
inspiring sports movie
rudy is greatly exaggerated the story
concerns
daniel rudy rudiger a man who
desperately wanted to play for the notre
dame fighting irish despite being just
5'6 and 165 pounds
a massive deviation concerns coach dan
devine and the famous jersey protest
scene
devine was greatly vilified for the
movie but by all accounts he was
actually very encouraging
that whole laying down the jerseys thing
also never happened and devine told the
houston chronicle that it
and his role in it were unforgivable for
rudy coach
the crowd also never chanted rudy's name
before he was placed in the game
that said he did actually record a sack
and
was carried off the field so that's
pretty cool
number six a beautiful mind this russell
crowe led film was adapted from a
pulitzer nominated biography
of famed mathematician john nash jr nash
suffered greatly from mental illness and
was eventually treated for paranoid
schizophrenia
and while the movie stayed true to the
spirit of nash's story it ignored a few
key details in 1953
nash fathered an illegitimate child with
eleanor steer
and went on to ignore both eleanor and
their son when they finally met in
person an ill nash thought his son would
play
quote an essential and significant role
in his personal long-awaited gay
liberation
you are exceptionally odd i bet you're
very popular with the girls
he also didn't have a good relationship
with alicia lard and he was not asked to
give a nobel prize acceptance speech
owing to his mental instability
my quest has taken me through the
physical
the metaphysical
the delusional
and back number five argo there's no
denying that argo is an exceptionally
made movie
its seven oscar nominations can attest
to that but it's nowhere near
historically accurate
the film was accused of whitewashing in
the casting of tony mendez and cora leak
it was also fiercely criticized for
exaggerating the cia's role in the caper
with ex-president jimmy carter even
admitting that quote
90 of the contributions to the ideas and
the consummation of the plan was
canadian
britain and new zealand were also
cheesed with their depictions as they
never turned away the american refugees
brits turned them away kiwis turned them
away canadians took them in
in fact they helped them and finally the
tense climactic moment where it seems
like the group will be caught
yeah none of that happened either
studio six productions they got away
without any problems
number four pearl harbor where to even
start with pearl harbor
this is a michael bay film through and
through relying on action and bombast
and throwing all semblance of historical
accuracy out the window
but let's get specific the japanese
never intentionally targeted the
hospital
the depiction of the doo little raid is
near total fabrication
president roosevelt wasn't notified of
the attack by a man dramatically running
into the room
how bad it's still not over sir
chester nimitz and george marshall
actually advocated a retaliatory strike
on japan
and then we veer into the absolute
ridiculous
roosevelt obviously never stood from his
wheelchair in a dramatic show of will
and the movie stole
admiral yamayoto's iconic sleeping giant
line from tora
by all accounts he never actually said
that
number three 300. this is
the battle of thermopylae makes for a
great story but 300 is pure comic book
which makes sense considering it was
adapted from a comic book
spartans were not walking around
shirtless and showing off their
impeccable washboard
abs they were most certainly armored
there also weren't 300 spartan men at
the battle
it was more like 6 000 greek soldiers
comprising numerous city-states
the movie was also criticized for its
idealized depiction of sparta and for
whittling down a complex situation into
a good guys versus bad guy's morality
tale
effie altis was also a normal malian not
a grotesque spartan outcast
mother father you were wrong
that said the movie clearly isn't taking
itself very seriously
so we suppose we can forgive it
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but tonight we died in hell
number two the greatest showman it may
have been made before the acquisition
but this fox film already felt disney
fied
the greatest showman concerns the
legendary huckster pt barnum
and his infamous american museum this is
definitely a feel-good story in which
barnum is portrayed as a flawed but
well-meaning businessman
and his attractions sing empowering
songs about nobility and being different
[Music]
in reality barnum was more exploitative
than tolerant
using the so-called freaks as pure
showbiz for his own fame and profit
you know people aren't going to like it
if you put us on stage oh i'm counting
on it
he also exploited egregious racial
stereotypes like promoting the frail
joyce heff as george washington's 161
year old
mammy when she passed away barnum
charged 1500
new yorkers 50 cents each to watch her
public autopsy
barnum certainly deserves a movie but
the greatest showman
ain't it maybe you are a fraud maybe it
was just about making a buck
but you gave us a real family before we
unveil our number one pick
here are some honorable mentions catch
me if you can
frank conned people because he wanted to
not to save his family
i'm getting it all back all the jewelry
all the furs everything that everything
they took from us i'm gonna get it back
remember the titans the titans
absolutely dominated and none of the
schools they faced were all white
what you did with those boys you were
the right man for the job
coach your hall of fame in my book
u571 the story received heaps of
criticism for being a load of fictional
baloney
the sound of music that iconic trek
through the swiss alps never happened
they got a train good morning vietnam
very little of the film is based in
reality and kronaut was never kicked out
of vietnam
kroner i'm sorry as hell about this
thing god damn it i like you son
i like what you do most of all i like
what you've done for me
but facts facts
this could give the army a black eye i'm
not going to cover for you this time so
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number one braveheart mel gibson's
classic war film is certainly epic but
it has very little basis in historic
reality
the portrayals of numerous characters
including wallace isabella
robert the bruce and prince edward are
all fabricated for story purposes
for example isabella was just three
years old during the battle of falkirk
i have come to beg for the life of
william wallace
you're quite taken with him aren't you
the numerous battles and military
campaigns are portrayed inaccurately
the occupation of scotland wasn't
occurring throughout william's life
it only happened one year before his
rebellion for one chance
just one chance to come back here and
tell our enemies
that they may take our lives but they'll
never
take oh freedom
the movie is filled with anachronisms
like the use of belted plaids
long shanks never invoked to use priming
noctis
as that didn't actually exist first
night
when any common girl inhabiting their
lands is married
our nobles shall have sexual rights to
her
on the night of her wedding all told
braveheart is far more hollywood fiction
than history
at least mel gibson admits as much in
the dvd commentary
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