Posted on 11/07/2014 5:43:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix
I remember reading about an interview with journalist Lowell Thomas. He was asked what he thought about the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" since he knew T.E. Lawrence and one of the characters in the film was loosely based on him. Thomas replied that he began to take notes when the movie came on the screen but quickly put his notes aside because the Lawrence he knew personally and the one he saw on the screen bore no factual resemblance to each other.
In fact most movies supposedly based on fact in reality are quite inaccurate so it would be easy to ask for your list on factually inaccurate movies. Instead, I am asking for your list of factually accurate movies. That is movies based on real events to come closest to factual accuracy.
Okay, I'll lead off. Because I read the book before seeing the movie, I would say "The Right Stuff." Some liberties with truth were taken but in general the facts of the space program were pretty accurate. Also "Nicholas and Alexandra" for the same reason as before, I read the book and the movie was mostly truthful except perhaps it did not show what a vacuous idiot Nicholas II was.
Listen to the chatter between the bombers in ‘The Dam Busters’. And you will discover where Lucas went to steal most of the Death Star battle in ‘Star Wars’.
Yes. My cousin who participated in the landing and battle was also very unhappy that it depicted things that most soldiers now wish the folks back home didn't know about.
How about Dr. Zhivago? —
My Mom said that Dad got up and left during that movie. He was there, WWII, snow and cold, Battle of the Bulge.
Never mentioned it to us kids.
thank you.
I graduated in 65 and “American Graffiti” did have the feel of those days. I think the period music in the background probably created that feeling more than anything else. Maybe the cars too.
The Greatest Game Ever Played
Twelve O’Clock High
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Excellent movies.
Ron Howard’s Apollo 13 turned the contracting corporations into villians which NASA staff argued against repeatedly while the film was in development.
I had a jacket back then just like the “Pharaohs” (hoods) wore in the movie.
“Moneyball”.
I talked with people who had a lot more knowledge than me and they said it was fairly accurate.
Great movie.
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RUSH, race car movie.
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There was a guy in my school, I think he was a year older than me, who rode a Harley and wore a black leather jacket. They could have used him as a model for “Fonzie”. Black greasy hair and all.
He was not a bad guy but he sure didn’t have all the girls swarming him like in “Happy Days”. He was killed on his Harley. I think he hit some garbage cans.
???? “ I was waiting for a mission, and they brought me one on a silver platter. What I didn’t know was after this mission, I’d never want another”.
Well then it’s right up there with one of Mels other works “Braveheart”. The weapons were wrong , Scots back then wore Breeks or trews (pants), not Kilts, etc. etc. It was cinematic, but inaccurate.
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“Apocalypse Now”
I think you might mean Full Metal Jacket
As did Lawrence's book
Fact: Lawrence and his Arabs did not capture Damascus. The Australia Light Horse took the city 2 hours before he showed up.
They weren’t Japanese zeros. they were North American AT-6’s painted to look like zeros. I think there are 2 actual zeroes still flightworthy in the world, which makes them worth their weight in gold.
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Was he trying to jump a shark when he died?
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I've read in other places Franklin was somewhat a playboy typr and DaSilva played that so well.
I had no problem with it being a musical .... just as I have no problem with West Side Story being a musical .... it's the story first and foremost for me.
My first wife got 1776 free from some source because she home schooled
She got a ton of free stuff because she home schooled.
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