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Re: Movies based on actual events (has anyone ever...)
have you ever been so into a movie based on real events that you actually went and researched what actually went down? I have twice....first was Young Guns....i was so enthralled with that movie that i did my best to research the true Billy the Kid..the second time was Braveheart...after seeing it i went back and researched all i could about William Wallace....has anyone else done that with any movies? or with those particular movies? wanna talk about it?
with Billy the Kid...all evidence shows he was a right bastard outlaw...though in the movie he comes off as almost a robin hood type of character...but the guy like killed people for shits and giggles as his fancy took him....like one time its said that he killed a guy for snoring too loud 
Wallace himself was pretty brutal too, he would kill englishmen just for being english and had a woman in every town...history says that he was hardly the romantic martyr that gibson portayed him as...though to be fair the English did their best to destroy all traces of wallace after he died..and the movie says that scotland won its freedom that day which is strictly not true....
Re: Movies based on actual events (has anyone ever...)
I did it for Fargo. I thought the situations were too screwed up to be real. Turns out it was based on a bunch of different stories that were thrown together. The Coen brothers just presented it as nonfiction to show us how fucked up some cases really are.
Re: Movies based on actual events (has anyone ever...)
Yeah, two movies. When I was fourteen, I saw the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre and heard that it was inspired a true story, I researched a lot of information on it and found out that real-life serial killer Ed Gein was the inspiration for the stories of Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Psycho, and Silence of the Lambs.
Another one was The Exorcism of Emily Rose, I saw it like two years after it was released. I thought it was alright, but I found the true story very interesting. The story you see in the movie is mostly true, except that it took place in Germany during the late 60s and early-to-mid 70s, the actual girl's name was Anneliese Michel. On the internet, you can find pictures of her and listen to recordings of her during exorcism rites. To this day, there's still a debate weather she was just mentally ill or demonically possessed.
