How Movies Lie

31/12/2024 40 min Temporada 10 Episodio 174
How Movies Lie

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Wow, the amount of movies that take someone's life and completely misrepresent it? Too many to count. It hurts the lives of the people who the movie was made about, but also anyone that is like them. Because if they believe the story, they get false ideas in their head.  Key Takeaways:    [3:05] The Pocahontas movie was a downright lie  [7:13] The I, Tonya movie was exaggerated  [11:33] A Beautiful Mind left out abuse and misportrayed mental illness [12:58] Erin Brockovich was oversexualized [14:47] None of the characters actually existed in Newsies  [16:04] Amadeus painted Mozart as a crazy man  [18:33] Sully was a real event, but it was overdramatized to get viewers  [20:45] The Greatest Showman - not so great himself, more like abusive  [23:32] Remember the Titans is not how desegregation went down at all  [26:58] The movie, Rudy, misrepresented the actual person  [28:39] The Blind side made Michael look dumb, when he really just needed some help  [31:53] Homeless to Harvard - spoiler alert she didn't graduate from Harvard [35:36] How we choose to tell a story and what we believe  Resources:   Pocahontas I, Tonya  A Beautiful Mind Erin Brockovich Newsies Amadeus Sully The Greatest Showman   Remember the Titans Rudy The Blind Side Homeless to Harvard     Connect with Barb:   Website   Facebook    Instagram   Be a guest on the podcast    YouTube   The Molly B Foundation