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What Are the Most Factually Accurate Movies?
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| November 7, 2014
| PJ-Comix
Posted on 11/07/2014 5:43:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: rbg81
“We Were Soldiers” has that annoying sequence where, as soon as a soldier gets killed, his telegram magically appears in the taxidriver’s mail bag.
Greengrass has made documentary-level movies: “Bloody Sunday” and “United 93”.
Also, check out old BBC films “The War Game” and “Culloden”.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:23:45 PM PST
by
bakeneko
To: ThunderSleeps
I think you mean ‘Full Metal Jacket’
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:23:58 PM PST
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: PJ-Comix
Twin Towers is as spot-on accurate as survivors McLoughlin and Jimeno not only helped write the screenplay but were involved in the production from start to finish.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:24:53 PM PST
by
INVAR
("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
To: jocon307; All
Well the material that was in the movie ‘Gone With the Wind’ was also in the book, but there was a TON of stuff in the book that wasn’t in the movie...it’s always that way, or else the movie would have to be 20 hours long.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:25:40 PM PST
by
notdownwidems
(Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
To: notdownwidems
“...its always that way, or else the movie would have to be 20 hours long”
That’s why the mini-series is such a great format.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:26:49 PM PST
by
jocon307
To: PJ-Comix
Your question puts the focus on history, especially war movies. With minor exceptions,
Tora, Tora, Tora and
The Longest Day were both highly accurate, with the studio and its principal executive (20th Century Fox and Daryl Zanuck) determined to get the story and visuals correct through a quasi-documentary style.
The later A Bridge Too Far took a similar approach, being based on a history by Cornelius Ryan as The Longest Day was. Although fictional, the 1945 war film They Were Expendable accurately reflects the courageous losing fight that American forces in the Philippines made against the Japanese in 1941 and 1942.
As is often the case, historical accuracy tends to undermine dramatic quality. Of all the movies referred to above, They Were Expendable is the most engaging. Virtually unwatchable are the accurate but leaden Midway and MacArthur.
To: Celtic Conservative
I heard an elderly gentleman in the local barber shop voice the exact same thing.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:27:59 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2014!)
To: JRandomFreeper
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:28:04 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: Celtic Conservative
shaking and in a cold sweat due to the level of accuracy.
When they shut the sound off it was just like hitting a landmine again. Spooky.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:28:15 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: AbnSarge
My uncle Tom, who was in the Marines during that time said as much.
CC
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:28:56 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof.)
To: PJ-Comix
Although the overall story was fiction loosely based on truth, I remember hearing WWII veterans who were there say that the portrayal of the D-Day landing in Saving Private Ryan was very true to what really happened.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:29:00 PM PST
by
untwist
(One Bad-Assed Mistake, America!)
To: bakeneko
We Were Soldiers has that annoying sequence where, as soon as a soldier gets killed, his telegram magically appears in the taxidrivers mail bag.
I think the intent there was to portray life on the home front for an Army wife.
If you think about it, there was nothing in the movie that said the telegrams arrived while the actual battle was still going on.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:29:28 PM PST
by
rbg81
To: PJ-Comix; GeronL; Slings and Arrows
Plan 9 From Outer Space
“Can you PROVE that it didn’t happen?!!!” - Criswell
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:30:33 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
To: Varsity Flight
Twelve OClock High
Memphis Belle
The Battle of Midway (John Ford)
Jim Thorpe, All American
and of course, Knute (with Ronald Reagan)
Add:
King of Kings
The Greatest Game Ever Played
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:30:37 PM PST
by
Varsity Flight
(Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
To: PJ-Comix
Midway without Chuck Heston and love story crap was really pretty good. Saw it when it came out. Whole fraternity turned out. We cheered like maniacs when we blew up the Jap carriers.
Old man was in the Pacific with the Seabees.
Another really good one is the FIRST PART ONLY of Gladiator with the Romans wiping out the Germans. A little showy but it shows the Roman war machine as it was during that time period. They really were the U.S. army of that period.
Hard to find but look it up on youtube is Waterloo. Using the Russian army and not caring if they got killed for real makes this one a must see. The aerial views of the British squares are fantastic.
Plummer is a great Wellington. All the classic lines from Nap. and Wellington are included. Just the shear scale is amazing considering no computer enhancement.
Zulu Dawn is another good one.
Not as accurate but I always will love Zulu.
The Patriot has some major problems, like pistols that are accurate at a ridiculous range, but the line up and shoot aspect of the first battle is pretty good. I know the siege cannons are not right but it does get some of it right.
Have fun.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:31:01 PM PST
by
prof.h.mandingo
(Buck v. Bell (1927) An idea whose time has come (for extreme liberalism))
To: knarf
To: A Cyrenian
It’s Texas.
They have chainsaws.
On a Friday night, they be in a mood for a massacre.
Nope.
No one said “Hey, Hold my beer and watch this!”
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:31:13 PM PST
by
Smokin' Joe
(How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
To: PJ-Comix
“Titanic” was not *too* bad. ‘Apollo 13’ got most of the facts right from what I know, not sure as to the personalities.
I always got a kick our of ‘300’ because I think that movie is *EXACTLY* the way the Spartans would have liked to view themselves; obviously it wasn’t ‘accurate’, but I bet to a man they would have enjoyed it.
In the fiction sense, the one I would most like to see would be a dead-on version of ‘Starship Troopers’; *NOT* the POS of that name that was made, but if they’d just follow Heinlein’s book it would be an awesome movie.
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:31:32 PM PST
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: TaMoDee
Yeah, Speilberg went absolutely OCD with that sequence.
CC
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posted on
11/07/2014 6:31:57 PM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(sufficient unto the day are the troubles therof.)
To: PJ-Comix
Having been a fan of movie Westerns and real historical writings on the Old West period from 1865 to 1899, I muttered under my breath “They finally got it right!” the first time I saw Tombstone. I have read hundreds of historical books on that period and with, as you say “some liberties with truth” it was very accurate to the time, the clothing, guns and holsters, language, and 19th Century feel, etc. were all right on the money.
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