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What Are the Most Factually Accurate Movies?
Self | November 7, 2014 | PJ-Comix

Posted on 11/07/2014 5:43:15 PM PST by PJ-Comix

I remember reading about an interview with journalist Lowell Thomas. He was asked what he thought about the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" since he knew T.E. Lawrence and one of the characters in the film was loosely based on him. Thomas replied that he began to take notes when the movie came on the screen but quickly put his notes aside because the Lawrence he knew personally and the one he saw on the screen bore no factual resemblance to each other.

In fact most movies supposedly based on fact in reality are quite inaccurate so it would be easy to ask for your list on factually inaccurate movies. Instead, I am asking for your list of factually accurate movies. That is movies based on real events to come closest to factual accuracy.

Okay, I'll lead off. Because I read the book before seeing the movie, I would say "The Right Stuff." Some liberties with truth were taken but in general the facts of the space program were pretty accurate. Also "Nicholas and Alexandra" for the same reason as before, I read the book and the movie was mostly truthful except perhaps it did not show what a vacuous idiot Nicholas II was.


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To: americas.best.days...
Definitely Ed Wood. Definitely.

Forrest J. Ackerman said that the portrayal of Bela Lugosi was false. He wasn't the sort to call Boris Karloff a "c*cksucker" or to exhibit jealousy towards him.

221 posted on 11/08/2014 4:41:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: central_va

No, but that’s why we had “firewatch” every night. Not much danger of fire, greater danger of AWOL or suicide attempt.

PI really messes with your mind. If you’ve read Dante’s Inferno, sometimes you think you are one of the characters therein.


222 posted on 11/08/2014 4:44:23 AM PST by BwanaNdege (Mother of Epidemics- "Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection" - G. Morgan, Freedom Foundation)
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To: jocon307; GeronL
vBut Abe Lincoln on a five, now that is just s.t.u.p.i.d.

"Hey Kingfish, if these dollars were supposedly buried by Ponce De Leon, how come they've got Andrew Jackson's picture on them?"

"Trick photography, Andy. What else do you wanna know?"

223 posted on 11/08/2014 4:44:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: Scrambler Bob
Anything by Michael Moore has to rate right up there —

>> And how do you define: ‘right ... up ... there ...’ ?

On top of a steaming pile of bullstalin...

224 posted on 11/08/2014 4:45:33 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: 21twelve

Yes there was LZ Columbus. I know a guy that was in the 2nd Battalion 5th Cav. that marched to Columbus. He was also involved in the rescue of the lost platoon.prior to that.
No one admitted to ordering the dividing of the troops and the march out instead of withdrawing everyone by helicopter.


225 posted on 11/08/2014 4:48:10 AM PST by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo.)
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To: PJ-Comix
Yeah... The movie Memphis Belle was a bit hard to swallow. (Read Morgan's book as well.)

LOL scene from the movie... when the B-17 formation does a go around as they can't see the target, and the want to hit the munitions plant and not the school next door. (Like carpet bombing will take care of that.)

Good grief!

226 posted on 11/08/2014 5:56:12 AM PST by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: willk

What about ZULU DAWN.

And in America, SON OF MORNING STAR.


227 posted on 11/08/2014 6:32:22 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: laplata

Johnson (Liver Eating Johnson) as he was known, years later admitted he never ate an Indian’s liver. He cut out the liver and passed it in front of his mouth, giving other Indians watching that he had taken a bite of it.

This part is completely left out of the movie.


228 posted on 11/08/2014 6:39:20 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: caww

Be interesting to compare it with HOUR OF THE GUN (1968).


229 posted on 11/08/2014 6:43:22 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Oztrich Boy

You’ve probably seen “The Light Horsemen”. One of the few movies that really conveyed how fast a charge can be.


230 posted on 11/08/2014 6:46:04 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Yes, I’d heard that. Thanks for bringing that out.


231 posted on 11/08/2014 6:50:07 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: vetvetdoug

***...one will see the rear rank armed with .303 bolt action Enfields instead of the Martini-Henry .451.***

In the Russian movie, WAR AND PEACE(1967), if you look close during the battle of Borodino you will see troops in the back ground using bolt action Mosin-Nagant rifles.
In one scene of the battle you see a Russian soldier running toward the right of the screen, the rifle carried in his left hand but the bolt is clearly showing it to be a bolt action rifle.


232 posted on 11/08/2014 6:50:23 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: PJ-Comix

2012

Because when hasn’t the fate of humanity hinged upon the acting ability of John Cusack?


233 posted on 11/08/2014 6:51:09 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: PJ-Comix

I hope “Patton” made the list.


234 posted on 11/08/2014 6:58:10 AM PST by DungeonMaster (No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
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To: PJ-Comix; Lazamataz; Old Sarge; JRios1968

Things got pretty medieval.

235 posted on 11/08/2014 7:35:45 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Radix
Woodstock.

Lies by omission are lies too.

There was a lot of violence (by Leftists) that was excluded from that film (there are references to the capitalist food vendor's hot dog stand being burned down by arsonists but no footage of it, the famous leftists who tried to steal (by threat of force) the film crew's rented equipment, the Black Panthers and Yippees blackmailing of the promoters for $25,000 to not disrupt the event (as well as free booth space at the event) was violated when Abbie Hoffman interrupted the Who's concert to lecture and agitate), etc. etc.).

236 posted on 11/08/2014 8:58:50 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: raybbr
If we’re talking about novels - hands down: “The Maltese Falcon”.

Which version? There were 3 adaptations.

237 posted on 11/08/2014 9:06:03 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Hey Obama: If Islamic State is not Islamic, then why did you give Osama Bin Laden a muslim funeral?)
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To: a fool in paradise

I’ve only seen the one with Bogart. I’ve read the book four or five times. I’ve read all of Hammett’s novels more than three times.


238 posted on 11/08/2014 10:10:49 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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bkmk


239 posted on 11/08/2014 5:34:35 PM PST by lysie
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