12 Movies Based On Real-Life Events That Skipped Over The Most Disturbing Parts
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12 Movies Based On Real-Life Events That Skipped Over The Most Disturbing Parts,Sometimes you can't fit everything into a movie...and sometimes the filmmakers are simply sparing the audience the disturbing details.
12 Movies Based On Real-Life Events That Skipped Over The Most Disturbing Parts
Movies based on true stories have a special draw. Viewers love to see a theatrical take on true events, but sometimes we’re led to believe that EVERYTHING that happened in the “true story” was included.
20thcentfox / © 20thCentFox / Courtesy Everett CollectionHowever, as you likely know, the real story of Anastasia Romanov is quite different. She was executed in 1918 by Bolshevik revolutionaries, along with her three sisters, her little brother, and her parents, after her father, Nicholas II, was forced to abdicate the throne.
Laski Diffusion / Getty Images2. And if you think 1997’s Titanic wasn’t full of enough drama and tragedy, there are some even more horrific details that were left out of the film.
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty ImagesWhile the movie focuses on the fictional character of Rose, around 1,500 real people died in the tragedy. Many of those bodies were never recovered, but one that was recovered was that of Scottish violinist John Law Humes.
CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty ImagesTwo weeks after the sinking, Humes — who was on the ship as his final performance before going home to his pregnant fiancé — was actually billed for alterations to his musician’s uniform by the company that hired him to work on the Titanic. Even knowing his tragic fate, they still forwarded the bill to his next of kin.
Hum Images / HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images3. 2000’s Remember the Titans tells the true story of coach Herman Boone, a high school football coach who led a newly integrated high school team to victory. In the epilogue of the film, we learn he went on to coach the team “for five more years.”
Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesHowever, the true story that inspired this heartwarming movie has a far darker ending, which explains why he stopped coaching: In 1979, Boone was fired on allegations of verbal and physical abuse of students.
Joyce Naltchayan / AFP via Getty ImagesAnd in 2014, Boone said he wouldn’t change a thing he did: “I don’t know if anything needed to be changed, because what I thought we did, we did for the benefit of mankind.”
Jeremy Drey / MediaNews Group / Reading Eagle via Getty Images4. 2009’s The Blind Side is another inspiring sports movie based on the true story of Michael Oher, who rose to NFL fame after being adopted.
Thearon W. Henderson / Getty ImagesHowever, Oher wasn’t thrilled with his depiction in the film, writing in his 2014 memoir: “I felt like it portrayed me as dumb, instead of as a kid who had never had consistent academic instruction and ended up thriving once he got it.”
David Bergman / Sports Illustrated via Getty Images5. In 2000’s Erin Brockovich, the main character fights to bring truth to light for the people of Hinkley, California, after their water supply is contaminated with chromium — just like the real-life person the story is based on.
Paul Harris / Getty ImagesBut the Julia Roberts–led film leaves the happy ending at a legal victory, whereas the story unfortunately didn’t end there for the real-life residents of the California town.
Mitchell Gerber / Corbis/VCG via Getty ImagesIn 2010, the original, underground chromium plume was found to have continued to grow — a decade and a half after the IRL trial.
Kris Connor / Getty Images6. 2012’s Argo, a critically acclaimed film starring Ben Affleck, was based on a 1979 political incident in which hostages were saved during the Iran hostage crisis under the guise of a film being made.
Ian West — PA Images / PA Images via Getty ImagesThe movie hails the CIA for leading the charge in getting the hostages home, but that wasn’t how it actually played out.
Universal History Archive / Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesJimmy Carter — who was president during the real-life events — praised the film as “great” but also noted that it was historically inaccurate, going on to credit Canada’s ambassador for making it all possible.
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive7. Director Ron Howard cleaned up John Nash Jr.’s story in 2001’s A Beautiful Mind.
Frank Micelotta Archive / Getty ImagesThe film looks at the schizophrenic mathematician’s life and his romance with a student, which is billed as his one-true-love relationship.
David Mcnew / Getty ImagesAmong the details left out about the Nobel Prize winner’s life were his relationships (with men and with the mother of his child), his career (in defense, but not at the Pentagon), and his porce.
The Color Crew / Getty Images8. P.T. Barnum was NOT a great guy, so naturally, there was a lot of ~finessing~ done in 2017’s The Greatest Showman.
Getty ImagesEnding up in Barnum’s circus as “the Infant Esau” — allegedly earning up to $150 a week as a child — she broke away at one point during her adult life to advocate for the rights of circus performers.
Pierce Archive LLC / Buyenlarge via Getty Images9. 1965’s The Sound of Music largely leaves out what else was going on in Austria in 1938 — the emergence of Nazis.
Silver Screen Collection / Getty ImagesThe real-life von Trapps managed to escape the day before Austria’s borders were closed by the Nazis.
Silver Screen Collection / Getty ImagesThere were also three more von Trapp kids than the movie depicted. In addition, they all had different names from those in the film, and Maria was a tutor for just ONE of the kids, not for all of them.
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive10. Disney’s 1995 film Pocahontas sells a sweet love story between the titular character and John Smith.
Print Collector / Getty ImagesOh, and John Smith was by no means a good guy. “Smith’s diplomacy often turned violent taking food and destroying villages,” ruining the once-amicable relationship between the English and the Powhatan Indians at Jamestown, Virginia.
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive11. 1998’s The Prince of Egypt was actually banned in Egypt because of its portrayal of a prophet. Outraged Egyptians also felt that it misled audiences about Egyptian history.
Anadolu Agency / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesMany Egyptians have also noted inaccuracies in the size and position of landmarks around Egypt in the fictionalized take.
Kitti Boonnitrod / Getty Images12. And finally: Disney’s 1998 animated take on Mulan also changed some details of the story, but with 2020’s live-action remake, the studio took steps toward the true story.
Culture Club / Getty ImagesWhat other “based on a true story” movies tell only part of the tale, leaving out some of the dark truth? Let’s discuss in the comments.
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