What Are Your Favorite Films Based on Actual Events?
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 08:43
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Hard to remember how good were The Killing Fields, and The Onion Fields.
I don't recall how accurate The Last Emperor was.
The Right Stuff was really quite good.
Some claim The Philadelphia Experiment was not true, but participants swear by it, despite the Classified nondisclosure restrictions.
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"A Year of Living Dangerously" was based on a true story too. The man that Linda Hunt played managed I think to get out of Cambodia and I think died in the last year in the US. I might be wrong.
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Has anybody seen Phoenix Forgotten?
Not sure if it is Science Fiction, or documentary.
From a year ago, but I never heard of it until now. I had already heard much about the subject matter, back when it happened.
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It’s a “found footage” movie like Blair Witch.
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For Crime genre, Portrait of a Serial Killer seemed fairly faithful telling of Henry Lee Lucas, and Otis Tuttle.
Regarding drugs and brain chemicals, Lucas was found to have a brain chemistry with Lithium levels so high they are considered lethal levels in humans. Supposedly due to his mom whacking him with a 2x4 as a child, leaving him sitting at n a corner comatose for several days.
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I've heard some interesting marketing for Chappaquiddick, which opens today.
I've heard some Talk Show hosts speak about it, simulating a story, for the last few days. Sounds like they got an early screening.
I can recall Mark Levin, Sean Hannity with these spots the last few days, and not during their show periods.
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Just watched The Girl Next Door (2007), with Catherine Mary Stewart and William Atherton. Based on Sylvie Likens in Indiana in 1965, which the film An American Crime also is based upon.
TGND is set in 1958 for the real events, instead of actual 1965. This is about child torture, child abuse, child rape, starvation, child genital torture and mutilation, child Murder.
Commentary helps explain why the director did not add glitz or glam to any aspect of either side.
I've seen it referred to as Real World Horror. Take a break between this and your next fix of Chainsaw Massacre or Hostel.
When I started this thread, my mind was leaning towards inspirational events. This ain't that.
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Hard pass on that one. I don't know why anybody would want to watch a movie like that, let alone why anybody would create it in the first place.
Then again, I've never seen a Saw movie, and have zero interest in anything resembling them. It's bad enough that fake movies about human torture are so popular. People are sick.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:The creative team for TGND had spent 9 years trying to get it made, with many false starts. The author of the book just passed in Jan 2018. An American Crime was released a few months apart in 2007, based upon the court transcripts of the same events.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hard pass on that one. I don't know why anybody would want to watch a movie like that, let alone why anybody would create it in the first place.
Then again, I've never seen a Saw movie, and have zero interest in anything resembling them. It's bad enough that fake movies about human torture are so popular. People are sick.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Since Saw (2004) and Hostel (2005) had shown the draw for Fake torture-porn, filming a non-fake story likely seemed a reasonable idea.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
The creative team for TGND had spent 9 years trying to get it made, with many false starts. The author of the book just passed in Jan 2018. An American Crime was released a few months apart in 2007, based upon the court transcripts of the same events.
Since Saw (2004) and Hostel (2005) had shown the draw for Fake torture-porn, filming a non-fake story likely seemed a reasonable idea.
The "creative team", huh? I think that's a bit generous.
I find myself grateful that I live in a country that allows movies like this to be made and shown to the public, but at the same time very disappointed that enough people go to see them that they keep being made.
I can only imagine what watching movies like this do to a person that is hopped up on a prescribed dose of whatever poison their drug dealers in white labcoats addled their brains with.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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