Because...Coen Brothers.
Posted on 08/27/2016 2:41:49 PM PDT by EveningStar
Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: "This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental." The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it. Who knew its origins were so lurid?
For that bit of boilerplate, we can indirectly thank none other than Grigori Rasputin, the famously hard-to-assassinate Russian mystic and intimate of the last, doomed Romanovs. It all started when an exiled Russian prince sued MGM in 1933 over the studio's Rasputin biopic, claiming that the American production did not accurately depict Rasputin's murder. And the prince ought to have known, having murdered him.
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Elaine: Nah.
... well except for the thousands chopped into their tasty bits for the crew lunch. But those were flyover state farm animals and not important Hollywood acting animals. Some of the flyover state animals were even fed to the Hollywood animals.
The movie “Fargo” started out stating that it was a true story.
I will admit that thinking it was true made it funnier but I still don’t like to be lied to.
Did it state that it was a true story, or that it was BASED on a true story? For example, Cameron’s laughable disaster “Titanic” was BASED on a true story — the sinking of RMS Titanic — but aside from that, I don’t think there was a word of truth in it.
Because...Coen Brothers.
Thanks for posting that.
Watching the director’s commentary on The Shawshank Redemption, where he discusses how they couldn’t feed a bird live mealworms acquired from a bait shop, and how they had to certify the ones they used were humanely killed before being fed to the bird one character was keeping under his jacket was amusing. The crazy.
I put this disclaimer in my book.
Throughout the book, a few company names and trademarks appear. The products are sometimes used in a way not intended by the manufacturer. The events did not happen in real life. That’s because this is a novel. The author knows this is obvious to fiction readers, but some people that passed the bar exam get their pants in a knicker when you describe their products being used in criminal activities. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. And the use of real company and product names is without permission and for literary effect. To be perfectly clear: this is a work of fiction.
You mean Raising Arizona is not a true story?
Are you saying Jack didn’t Drown???
Or Rose didn’t pitch the Gem overboard ?
How could It Not Be True?
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Blazing Saddles was A True Story !
I was There!
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