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Bigga said:
Does anyone like 'based on a true story' stuff...?

For me, it depends on how much the story has altered for the storytellin perspective...



I love Michael Peña; he's class!
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Yeah love true stories! Based on though don't they have license to go way of script as to make it more entertaining, interesting?
 
waspish said:
Yeah love true stories! Based on though don't they have license to go way of script as to make it more entertaining, interesting?
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Yeah. When scripts are made/ sold they're able to give 'creative licence' to the plot.

I was going to make a seperate thread, but I might as well tack this to your question.

The upcoming film "Gran Turismo" doesn't happen in the way they'll show in the film even though the protagonist gave consent to the script.

And, as I found out recently, "The Blind Side" that features Sandra Bullock is, also, hardly close to the facts.

*edit this just popped up in a quick search!



"The Lovely Bones" is also quite inaccurate.

These things do spoil a film, after knowing the facts, for me. But the whole "based on a true story" insertion allows studios to get away with changing actual facts to suit their narratives.
 
Bigga said:
"The Lovely Bones" is also quite inaccurate.

These things do spoil a film, after knowing the facts, for me. But the whole "based on a true story" insertion allows studios to get away with changing actual facts to suit their narratives.
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Complete work of fiction isn't it?

The book and film are narrated by a dead girl.

There was no more a brazen act of "True Story" than Fargo.
 
Bigga said:
Does anyone like 'based on a true story' stuff...?

For me, it depends on how much the story has altered for the storytellin perspective...



I love Michael Peña; he's class!
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I'm not familiar with a lot of his more famous stuff but I knew I'd seen him recently in something. It was Frontera, good film.
 
Apologies, thread.

I was conflating information I researched about a film, I saw once, but looked up the writer and her experiences out of interest.

While “The Lovely Bones” is a work of fiction based upon her memoirs (I didn't like the poorly constructed film, but it stuck in my mind for spoken reasons), Alice Sebold has stated in interviews that the novel was inspired by her own experience of being raped as a college student. The conviction of the 'right' man she accused was inaccurate, the 'right' man was never caught. She had insisted her accusations were correct and had "no debate" about it. This is because, after the incident, a man in street smiled at her.

The wrongly accused man spent 16 years behind bars and he received an extremely small apology. This side of things became more of interest over the film and this is the conflated info hence the apology.
 
Bigga said:
I have to say when the idea of 'The Continental' was mooted, I could not see a pathway for it to be any good... But I've changed my mind!

I think it looks great fun and, clearly, doesn't take itself seriously in any way, shape or form!

Roll on, September!

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I struggled with the last John Wick when death is so often the killing becomes boring.
 
mexico1970 said:
I struggled with the last John Wick when death is so often the killing becomes boring.
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Agreed.

'Creative killing' is super interesting. I think to myself 'how does the writer creator of such things come up with this'. However, when it's based in reality, like the last one with Halle Berry and the dogs working in tandem, THAT was superb.
 
waspish said:
Don't know about this if it's going to be a mega blockbuster or piss poor

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Man, I love it!

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I was thinking 'this looks pretty bold, on the verge of 'epic' ' and then I saw Zack Snyder's name come up and I knew why it looked so great! Whilst he's not the greatest writer in the world, he's not afraid to try something different and this has clear influences, but fantastic vision!

Man, I can't wait!
 
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