7 Movies Based on a True Story (Are Shockingly Full of Crap)
7 Movies Based on a True Story (Are Shockingly Full of Crap)
By Chris Rio, Cracked.com, May 12, 2014
When a movie uses the words "inspired by a true story," a lot of times they actually mean "sorta resembling something the screenwriter half-heard while snorting coke." We've established that pretty well by now . When it's a biographical movie, though, we assume they'll at least make sure to respect the spirit of the real person's life story -- otherwise, why bother?
And yet the following biopics have as much in common with the true events they depict as Zardoz does with the Vietnam War, often to the annoyance of the people being "honored."
Click this link to read about the 7 true story movies, but I (Buzz) am reproducing this one because I KNEW it was totally full of crap right from the beginning and was an insult to the hero Canadian diplomats who gambled with their own lives, to Prime Minister Joe Clark who okayed the operation and to Canada as a country.
http://www.cracked.com/article_21139_7-movies-based-true-story-are-shockingly-full-crap.html
Argo -- The Finale Is the Opposite of What Happened
The Movie:
Argo depicts the CIA's insane scheme to secretly rescue six Americans in Iran during the hostage crisis in the late '70s (which we told you about a year before Hollywood did). The plan called for CIA agent Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck) to fly over to Iran, dress everyone up in silly outfits, and say they were a movie company scouting locations for a Star Wars ripoff in Tehran. In the gripping final scene, the Iranian guards at the airport find out the Americans' true identities just as they're about to leave and literally chase the plane down the runway with AK-47s .
"Stop them! They have 200 milliliters of toothpaaaaste!" (Warner Bros.)
Things look hairy for a moment there, but the plane manages to take off just as the guards are about to get in front of it, and the Americans are free. USA! USA!
The Reality:
Actually, that should be: "CANADA! CANADA!" The movie makes it seem like it was all the CIA's idea, but Canada was responsible for at least 90 percent of the operation, and that's according to President Jimmy Carter . Ken Taylor, the Canadian diplomat who risked his neck by hiding the Americans and going out to gather intelligence, called the CIA a "junior partner" in the rescue.
"... for politely shutting up as we steal all the credit." ( State Department )
Also, that tense scene at the airport? Never happened . According to Mendez, the escape went off "without a hitch." In the movie, the CIA calls off the mission at the last minute and cancels the plane tickets, presumably because Affleck accidentally slipped into a Boston accent. In reality, Canada responsibly bought the plane tickets well ahead of time, and the group just walked through the airport and left with their fake storyboards and real '70s mustaches.
Apparently the fake movie was half sci-fi, half porno. (Warner Bros.)
At a Toronto screening, Affleck got so much heat for the oversight that he went "Oh, right" and changed the movie's post-credits text to acknowledge Canada's contribution. Apparently he'd never noticed that the mission he was recreating was nicknamed " The Canadian Caper ."
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Well, obviously the movie was going to sell a lot more tickets in the USA than in Canada, so I guess it was necessary to deny reality and fake it to steal the thunder of the REAL heroes by turning them into Americans.
Agreed, RL. But I'm sure you'd feel the same way if I made a movie about the Canadian armed forces defeating the Japanese in WW2. Can you see them erecting the Canadian flag at Iwo Jima? Actually, I don't mind giving you credit for dropping the big ones on Hiroshima and Nagasaki - I wouldn't want to live with that guilt.
Wait, Rocky and Bullwinkle's enemy was Boris and Natasha from Russia......
I saw the movie on a back channel one day-I was bored and thought it was mediocre at best, we all know of the heroics of our Canadian Brothers and Sisters (those of us who bother to remember the highly illegal taking of our embassy and it's personnel). There is a tendency amongst some of our simpler friends to just forgive and forget, but Iran, the government of, has never been really taken to task for what they did, regardless of what they think was a just causation. Those hostages never regained those 444 days and I'm sure many of them never recovered their life.
What are the other 6 movies?
Just click the link that was in the article:
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