thescrappyhomeschooler Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 how true-to-life do you expect that movie to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Not very. I'd expect the same names and the same time period but that's about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 how true-to-life do you expect that movie to be? Not very much. I consider the basic idea to be inspired by the true life story, but do not expect the details and outcome to be true to life at all. Hollywood will make the story what it needs it in order to sell. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Not very. I'd expect the same names and the same time period but that's about it. :iagree: Though I might not expect the real names, depending on the story. I would expect a gist of it. Some bit of truth. But I would also expect there to be people condensed into a single character, tension or romance added, real world complexities removed, and probably one side of the story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 I would expect the gist of it to be true as well. They may add characters to the plot, add twists, and even change the outcome, but I would think the gist is mainly true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimson Wife Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Is it "based on a true story" or "inspired by a true story"? I would expect the former to be more accurate than the latter (even if it only shows one side of the story and/or fictionalizes some of the details). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happyhomemaker Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 It depends on how well-known the story is. If it's based on the life of John Adams or some other famous person or event, then I would expect it to be fairly accurate. If it's an obscure story, I would expect the movie to be only tangentially related to the actual events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margo out of lurking Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 At this point, not much. I figure there was a person who did something, and Hollywood takes off with the rest . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Is it "based on a true story" or "inspired by a true story"? I would expect the former to be more accurate than the latter (even if it only shows one side of the story and/or fictionalizes some of the details). I agree. "Based on" would, to me, imply a closer to reality story line (but still not documentary) than "inspired by". The latter implies a fictional story line based on a concept, eg Law and Order. The former implies that the story is largely the same, with areas where cinimatic license has been taken to enhance the telling. Even documentaries are often limited to a single perspective, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Peach Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Not very. I'd expect the same names and the same time period but that's about it. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty in Pink Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 how true-to-life do you expect that movie to be? Not very. I expect less from "inspired by" than from "based on" but I don't expect a documentary in any case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parker Martin Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Not. At. All. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MariannNOVA Posted October 30, 2011 Share Posted October 30, 2011 Is it "based on a true story" or "inspired by a true story"? I would expect the former to be more accurate than the latter (even if it only shows one side of the story and/or fictionalizes some of the details). This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 not very, they tend to take LOTS of license, so I generally don't bother watching. I will admit, I watched the commentary on Apollo 13, and some of the other astronauts were commenting just how accurate it was. (except lovell, haise, and swagert never snipped at each other). there was still some license. (I also read lovell's book. I'd have loved to have seen the "bill for towing" some grummun engineer wrote up to relieve stress.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HS Mom in NC Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Not at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natalieclare Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Not. At. All. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 Not at all. :iagree: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Mungo Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 I don't really *expect* it to resemble reality at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asta Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 It depends. I just found out that the Exorcist was based on a 1940s case of a Protestant boy in the St Louis area (not an agnostic girl in Washington D.C. in the 1960s) -- although it was the Jesuit priests who did the exorcism, so that was correct. I think they all have the "basic yarn". a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted October 31, 2011 Share Posted October 31, 2011 We know it varies wildly, so we tend to always look it up using Google after we watch a movie we like. Then we get the "real" story and find out just how fake the movie really was (or wasn't). The most annoying one that comes to mind was the one on the Jamaican Bobsled Team (name escapes me this morning) as that could have been a neat story told truthfully. I seem to recall that the only truthful part to it was that there was a new Jamaican bobsled team. The dogs left down in Antarctica was a bit off too, but that was understandable since showing the true ending of most of the dogs starving to death would hardly make it a suitable story for most kids. Learning the true story of Balto was very informative (and different). There are many we've looked up - from The Sound of Music on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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