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Hollywood's best biopics are most often merely "based" on a true story. The line between fact and fiction is blurred to make a good story. Here are some of the most inaccurate biographies Hollywood has glamorized...
1. A Beautiful Mind
John Nash had a history of being a less than exemplary citizen. Things included various racial slurs, an arrest in Santa Monica CA and his hallucinations were all auditory, not visual.
2. Ray
He did give up heroin but not all drugs and drinking completely. He never actually banned from playing in Georgia, and he did not live happily ever after with his wife Della (they divorced in 1976)
3. Houdini
Truth and fiction is his life were tough to discern. But a few things like his family name was actually Weisz and he died from a burst appendix not a Chinese Water Torture Cell.
4. The Hurricane
A film about boxer Rubin Carter had the basics down, basically he was an African-American boxer who was jailed for murder and eventually released after many years of appeals. Carter didn't leave the military with service ribbons, but instead was kicked out after getting court-martialed. He didn't lose the boxing match with Joey Giardello because of bigoted judges; he lost it because Giardello cleaned his clock. And Della Pesca, the racist detective with a serious grudge against Carter, was completely and utterly made-up.
5. Amadeus
he play and then movie about Salieri and Mozart has been so popular that it's more or less eclipsed the real history. In fact, their relationship was largely marked by mutual respect and a general lack of murderous intent. They wrote a cantata together, and Salieri even tutored Mozart's son Franz Xaver Wolfgang in music.
6. Mongol
Not the epitome of inaccuracy for Genghis Khan movies but Khan is seen to be a dedicated and devoted husband to his wife Borte. And though his first wife was indeed an important figure in his life, he was hardly a paragon of monogamous virtue: Roughly 8% of all men in Asia are descendants from Khan.
7. Young Mr. Lincoln
The most striking thing in this movie about Abe Lincoln is that slavery, that massive elephant in the room for early American history, is never even mentioned.
8. The Doors
The surviving band members criticized Oliver Stone for stretching the truth and turning Jim Morrison into a boorish, perpetually drunk, stark-raving loony jerk. Keyboardist Ray Manzarek called the movie "Too sensationalistic. Too jivey."
9. Night and Day
Cole Porter had a closet full of military outfits, he never fought in anyone's army. And while Porter was indisputably suave, the ladies were not his primary interest. His wife, Linda Lee Thomaswas, was really 8 years older than him, not significantly younger like in that film.
10. Young Einstein
Historians have been fairly clear that Albert Einstein wasn't born in Tasmania, didn't discover rock music, and didn't split the "Tasmanian beer atom" -- whatever that is -- with a chisel.
Accurate or not they are still good movies! What else would you add to the list?
Some like Walk the Line, Cleopatra, Alexander etc...
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Source: Yahoo movies
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