Recommend me a film based on real events
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Barefootin_Fiend
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not really a movie per se, but the HBO series "The Pacific" was fucking awesome. Definitely worth the watch. (WW2)
Skavengers303
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hell yeah I forgot about that. the first band of brothers is based on real events also (and better in my opinion)
Davy.Crockett
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Argo!
Laurent.
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Based on real events, yes but also completely changed parts of those events to give way too much credit to the U.S.
Hell even Carter said so:
The other thing that I would say was that 90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA.
“But Ben Affleck's character in the film was only … in Tehran a day and a half,” Carter said. “And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process.”
Hell even Carter said so:
The other thing that I would say was that 90 percent of the contributions to the ideas and the consummation of the plan was Canadian. And the movie gives almost full credit to the American CIA.
“But Ben Affleck's character in the film was only … in Tehran a day and a half,” Carter said. “And the main hero, in my opinion, was Ken Taylor, who was the Canadian ambassador who orchestrated the entire process.”
Steve-Brown
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fuckin hipster rich kids....getting things before they were cool....god damn.
Granby_killdozer
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FUCK. THAT. MOVIE.
twin-tip-hero
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Street Thief is hands down nothing shy of amazing. It will have you thinking and pissed off by the end of the movie. Can't say too much, other than it's a doc. about a thief going around a city and how he plans out jobs, and executes them.I highly highly suggest this movie.
You realize the Canadians had nothing to do with it other than printing out passports. But after the oparation was done they gave Canadian ambassador a hundred percent of the credit so they didn't think the CIA or amarica had anything to do with the Rescue. You should probably watch a real documentary on it first before you see the Hollywood movie.
LiquorLanch
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Tje Canadian Parliament met in secrecy and agreed to give out the passports in one night. It wouldn't have been possible without them.
Laurent.
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Uh no, When the historic rescue happened, the world believed that the entire plan was executed by the Canadian government, which wasn’t completely true. But Ben Affleck goes so far in the other direction, that the poor Canadians in Argo quite unduly take a complete backseat role. Yes, as hard as it may be to believe, the Canadian people have skills aside from ice-hockey and beer chugging.
More exaggerations from the actual event::
Halfway through the film, the American group is out and about in a local marketplace pretending to be a film crew. Here, a very tense scene takes place, where their lives in the bazaar appear to be in peril. None of this actually happened, of course.
While in reality, the group’s tickets to Zurich were purchased in advance by the Canadian ambassador’s wife, the film shows a different truth for dramatic effect. It is another case of Argo creating drama when there was none and inadvertently downplaying the role of the Canadian government. (And Americans wonder why the Canadians aren’t always very fond of their neighbours.)
When the group is finally exiting Iran, they face a very jittery encounter with the boarding officials at the airport. It is an excellent scene that displays how the love of cinema knows no borders, yet it was another piece that was completely invented.
When the group is finally on the plane, and very close to tasting freedom, they are chased by the Iranian military that is ready to shoot their aircraft down. As you may have suspected from the formulaic nature of this rather annoying finale, it was also another segment in the film that was entirely fabricated.
In fact, here is what Mark Lijek, one of the six actual people rescued during the operation, had to say:
“The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador’s residence in Berne. It was that straightforward.”
More exaggerations from the actual event::
Halfway through the film, the American group is out and about in a local marketplace pretending to be a film crew. Here, a very tense scene takes place, where their lives in the bazaar appear to be in peril. None of this actually happened, of course.
While in reality, the group’s tickets to Zurich were purchased in advance by the Canadian ambassador’s wife, the film shows a different truth for dramatic effect. It is another case of Argo creating drama when there was none and inadvertently downplaying the role of the Canadian government. (And Americans wonder why the Canadians aren’t always very fond of their neighbours.)
When the group is finally exiting Iran, they face a very jittery encounter with the boarding officials at the airport. It is an excellent scene that displays how the love of cinema knows no borders, yet it was another piece that was completely invented.
When the group is finally on the plane, and very close to tasting freedom, they are chased by the Iranian military that is ready to shoot their aircraft down. As you may have suspected from the formulaic nature of this rather annoying finale, it was also another segment in the film that was entirely fabricated.
In fact, here is what Mark Lijek, one of the six actual people rescued during the operation, had to say:
“The truth is the immigration officers barely looked at us and we were processed out in the regular way. We got on the flight to Zurich and then we were taken to the US ambassador’s residence in Berne. It was that straightforward.”
skibumb2929
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to kill a mocking bird
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lion king
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Kon Tiki
About a Norwegian who tried to prove that fiji was actually colonised by peruvians (I think it’s those nationalities) by floating a raft from fiji to peru.
There’s an actual documentary and also a modern day fictional adaption which is awesome. Highly recommend it,
About a Norwegian who tried to prove that fiji was actually colonised by peruvians (I think it’s those nationalities) by floating a raft from fiji to peru.
There’s an actual documentary and also a modern day fictional adaption which is awesome. Highly recommend it,
