22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments

Turns out you’ve been watching documentaries this whole time.
22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments

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Documentaries and biopics are a big deal, especially during award season. But it turns out that an absolute ton of movies and shows are based on real life. They're just not openly admitting it. Maybe the writers don't want to sound like unoriginal hacks, but they're constantly basing scenes, plots, characters, and such on actual events and people.

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The Wall from Game ofThrones isreal! George R. R. Martin got his inspiration for The Wall in A Song OfIce And Fire from Hadrian's Wal which protected

Grey’s Anatomy

22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments
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King of the Hill

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In Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, the two brothers (played by Adam Devine and Zac Efron) post a Craigslist ad looking for dates to accompany them t

Alyssa Milano

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South Park's Kenny was based on a Kenny from Trey Parker's childhood, who also wore an orange coat and always mumbled. He went missing all the time, a
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22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments

The Shape of Water

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Screenwriter Brian Nelson got the idea for HARD CANDY -in which young Hayley tortures the truth out of suspected pedophile Jeff after producer David H

The Inbetweeners

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22 Real-Life Inspirations For Your Favorite Movie & TV Moments

Harry Potter

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The Dukes' failed attempt to corner a market in Trading Places actually happened. The Hunt brothers created a silver shortage by hoarding the precious
Steel Magnolias is based on a play written by then-struggling actor ROBERT HARLING, who needed an outlet to help himself deal with the death of his 32
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Star Trek

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Snoke's look from The Last Jedi was based on Hugh Hefner. The decision to dress a space dictator as a playboy came from Andy Serkis and Rian Johnson,
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