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Victory (AKA Escape to Victory)
The Hollywood Version:
The Allied team accepts, hoping to use this match as a means of escape. However, once they get their perfect opportunity to escape during halftime, they choose instead to return to the pitch and try to beat the Nazis thus winning respect, rather than their freedom. It should be noted that they were relying on Stallone as their keeper. After a miraculous save by--you guessed it--Stallone, there was much rejoicing, and the Allies escape during the ensuing chaos.
In reality ...
The Nazis lost to the upstart club miserably and repeatedly, with the Ukrainians destroying them in the final match by a decisive and wholly embarrassing 8-0 score. So that's pretty inspiring, right? Well, shortly thereafter, the Gestapo found various reasons to arrest and then torture several members of the Ukrainian team. After all, the Gestapo were assholes like that. One player died during the torture process, while the rest were shipped off to a work camp. And, well, executed. God, that's depressing. And that's precisely why Hollywood chose to Stallone the shit out of it.
#2.
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Hollywood Version:
Adrian Cronauer, that's how. A radio disc jockey from Detroit, Cronauer basically told authority to stick a pickle up its ass while ranting and raving with the funniest damn shit you've ever heard, accompanied by a fantastic '60s rock and roll soundtrack, while also teaching impressionable Vietnamese citizens to curse angrily and play baseball along the way. Cronauer, as portrayed in the movie, is a staunch anti-war liberal. Half of his rantings have to do with how ridiculous the establishment is, or why Army fashion is really awful. He told the Army to stick it repeatedly and with great emphasis, and for his troubles he was sent off to (hopefully) be killed by a commanding officer and then had his ass booted out of the Army.
In reality ...
In reality, while Cronauer did indeed play some sweet tunes, he rarely resorted to flat out comedy bits, and in fact stated that pretty much everything Williams did in the film would have gotten his ass court-martialed. He was never booted from the military, either. No, he had a far more controversial exit: he went home when his tour was over. As far as being a staunch anti-war liberal, all we can tell you is this: Cronauer, now a lawyer, is “lifelong card-carrying Republican” and was a vice-chairman for the 2004 Bush/Cheney re-election campaign. #1.
The Hurricane
The Hollywood Version:
Luckily, after 20 years in prison as an innocent man convicted by a bitterly racist system, three young white people from a magical land called "Canada" took up his cause and, after discovering a key piece of evidence, proved Hurricane's innocence and set him free.
In reality ...
But far more disturbing is the whole murder thing. We're not saying Carter committed the crime, we'll just casually point out that by the age of 14, the Hurricane had already been arrested for assault and armed robbery. By 22, he had been imprisoned twice for "brutal street muggings." He was booted from the military after being court-martialed a whopping four times, being described as "unfit to serve." But, hey, nobody expects boxers to be model citizens. It doesn't mean he killed anyone, right?
Well, when it came to the murders, there was enough evidence to convict him twice (both times set aside due to procedural errors by the prosecution). Carter failed a lie detector test--miserably--and then was given a chance to re-take it after he'd been imprisoned for awhile. He refused. At his second trial, several witnesses who had provided Carter's alibi admitted they had been asked to lie for him. But what about that evidence that proved his innocence? Well, there was in fact none. The judge was forced to throw out the conviction because the prosecution had failed to turn over some evidence and thus didn't give Carter a fair trial. The prosecution could have chosen to re-try the case from scratch to convict Carter a third time, but they decided it wasn't worth doing since 22 years had passed and all of the people involved were either dead or ridiculously old. Of course the law is the law and the law said Carter could go free. But it's probably not quite accurate to use Carter's story as proof that the criminal justice system is run by the Klan. The whole thing has really made us question Bob Dylan's research skills. For an article in which we call bullshit on more of your favorite flicks, check out 11 Movies Saved by Historical Inaccuracy or our look at 5 Things Hollywood Thinks Computers Can Do. |
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Max Baer
even though he was a decent guy in real life, the press at the time portrayed him as a villain just as the film did
however, while the film painted him as being somewhat nonchalant about killing two men with his bare hands, the real Baer was haunted by guilt for the rest of his life
for your fun-fact knowledge, his son (Max Baer, Jr.) became an actor most famous for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies
What about Cinderella Man? The opposing boxer is portrayed as the villain too but in reality he and the hero had a friendly competition.
Lindsey420, how is that ironic?
Boys Don't Cry was also extremely inaccurate, barely talking to the people involved and never even donating a penny to Teena Brandon's family (to this day s/he doesn't even have a gravestone). It left out a character who was murdered (a black guy who was physically disabled) and made Lisa Lambert look sympathetic when she was actually somewhat responsible for the killings.
I was so sad when I learned about that.
Contrary to the original blog posting, only about 15% of the players on the MIT Blackjack Team were of Asian descent. While the movie took many, many liberties with the story line (e.g. the founder and leader of the team was actually a Harvard College and Harvard Business School grad named Bill Kaplan, the team grew to nearly 80 players at its peak and consisted of players from colleges and companies across the country, etc. ), the "whitewashing" of the team mentioned in a number of blogs is simply inaccurate.
okay, you guys forgot a BIG one!!! ever seen "FARGO?" if you don't believe me, go buy the DVD and watch the special features. apparantly the Cohen brothers wanted to see how long people would sit through a relatively boring movie with crazy thick accents and a really ugly kidnapper if they thought it was a true story. well, i'd say it WORKED!! there was actually a chinese woman who flew to Fargo to find the money steve buscemi(SP?) buried along the highway and she actually DIED of hypothermia!! oh, how i love the irony!!!
So, Pursuit of Happiness... "Neglecting his son for months at a time"? Wouldn't leaving him with his mother be PREFERABLE to keeping him while homeless? If he's got nowhere to live during the internship but has someone else willing and able to care for his kid, I think leaving him with her is the RESPONSIBLE thing to do.
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oh, I though the Rudy movie was a steming pile of s**t. I forgot to type that. sorry..
I especially liked the entries on Rudy, and Hurricane.
I always thought the movie was a steaming pile of sappy s**t, and was sick of being called a heartless p***k for thinking so. Thanks for validating my beleif.
Also, I love the Huirricaine entry, simply because it remind me even more, about Bob dylan being a giant gaping douchbag...
I have read the entire transcripts from both of Hurricanes trials and the man was quite obviously guilty as sin.
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Ummm Technarch, Those films aren't "Based On A True Story" That's the criteria. They may be bullshit...and yeah they are, but this isn't the place for them.
kevinann, no one cares about the french or especially their history of whining and smoking cigarettes
Needs an article for:
Anastasia
American Gangster
Black Hawk Down
Domino
The Exorcist
Freedom Writers
Gangs of New York
Into the Wild
The Hoax
The Patriot
Hitch
>>Sesshy -
The producers of "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" have pointed to Ed Gein (from Wisconsin) to claim "fact based". The earlier "Psycho", actually based on Gein, was presented as fiction. The author of the source novel (same title) later noted that had to tone the story down to make it believable.
@chuck_steak: I second that, and I'm going to take that a step further.
Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, and George W. Bush are also a bunch of liberal scum, infesting our televisions with tree-hugging, homosexual, anti-war, pro-abortion, God-hating, evolution-believing communist lies. Jesus, if they had their way, Americans would be jumping the Reo Grand right now to try to find a job, only to be sodomized by union heads.
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