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15 Movies We Didn’t Know Were Inspired By The Creator’s Real Life

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November 04, 2021

15 Movies We Didn’t Know Were Inspired By The Creator’s Real Life

ET started out as a story about divorce from a child’s point of view, and in a sense (according to Spielberg), it still is that. Here’s the full story, plus 14 others:

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ET was heavily based on Steven Spielberg's childhood experiences. Specifically, his parents' divorce in fact, the movie started out as a story about two parents divorcing and how that affected their child. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Marriage Story was kind of inspired by the creator's own divorce. But Noah Baumbach's divorce from Jennifer Jason Leigh was only part of it-he also mined his friends' and family members' experiences for material. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Lost in Translation was a surprisingly personal project for Sofia Coppola. She had spent a lot of time in Tokyo when she was younger - she ran a clothing company with her friend called Milk Fed that often took her there. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Pixar's Luca is kind of based on the director's own childhood in Italy. PESCHERIA Enrico Casarosa says that he was inspired by how he'd spent his childhood in Cinque Terre with a friend, Alberto, who was a troublemaker. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The Netflix show Midnight Mass is an extremely personal project, it turns out. It was heavily inspired by creator Mike Flanagan's Catholic upbringing, and he wanted to explore his own views of faith and religion with it. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Director Adam Wingard's cat apparently influenced Godzilla VS Kong. That's judging by an Instagram photo of his cat, which he captioned with There is a lot of her inspiration in my version of Godzilla and King Kong. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Inside Out was inspired by the creators trying to figure out their kids. Specifically, trying to figure out what was happening in their kids' heads as they grew up and changed dramatically in the span of a few years. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Us came from a persistent fear that Jordan Peele had been having. He'd imagine seeing his own doppelganger on the subway, across the platform, and he would smile at Peele. That was the seed for the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The TV show Psych is kind of based on creator Steve Franks' childhood. His dad was in the LAPD, and he called himself a trained observer which inspired the premise of a fake psychic working for the police. CRACKED.COM — Source

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George Miller's time in a Sydney emergency room inspired Mad Max. He's a medical doctor who spent time in a hospital emergency room in the '70s- there, he says, he saw a lot of rSourceeal road trauma. CRACKED.COM — Source

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In a sense, Game of Thrones is GRRM's fanfiction about his pet turtles. They kept dying, to his great sadness - as they lived in a castle, he made up stories about how they were kings and knights killing each other over a throne CRACKED.COM — Source

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Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise was based on an encounter he'd had. SHONEN KNIFE He'd met a woman, Amy Lehrhaupt, and spent a night with her- and he eventually turned the memory of that into Before Sunrise. CRACKED.COM — Source

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A region of Middle-earth was partly inspired by WWI battlefields. Tolkien, who was in WWI, said that the Dead Marshes (on the path to Mordor) owe something to Northern France after the Battle of the Somme. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Stephen King got the inspiration for Carrie from an old job he used to do. He worked as a high school janitor while in college, and much later, he remembered a detail from the girls' locker room. Carrie grew out of that memory. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Wonder Woman was inspired by the creator's poly marriage. He lived with two wives for decades, and had two children with each of them and he also partly based Wonder Woman on each of them. CRACKED.COM — Source

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