Line #61 Quotes/VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory


1	[[AC:Anime and Manga]]
2
3	->'''Osaka:''' Oh, Ah see. That story about the mold aliens was all made up!\
4	'''Yomi:''' Why would you think... it was real?\
5	'''Osaka:''' There was a real sense of reality to it.\
6	'''Tomo:''' Of course there was! It was based on a true story!\
7	'''Yomi:''' ''No, it was not!''
8	-->--''Manga/AzumangaDaioh''
9
10	[[AC:Film--Live-Action]]
11
12	->[[AC:some of this actually happened.]]
13	-->--Opening title to ''Film/AmericanHustle''
14
15	->'''[[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Logan]]:''' ''(to [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura]])'' [[ComicBooksAreReal Looks like we got ourselves an X-Men fan.]] You know it's all bullshit, right? Maybe a quarter of it actually happened, and not like this.
16	-->--An in-universe variant in ''Film/{{Logan}}''
17
18	->'''Creator/AndyKaufman:''' (''as Foreign Man''): Hallo. I am Andy. And I would like to tank you for coming to my movie. I wish it was better, you know, but it is so stupid. It's terrible. I do not even like it. All of the most important things in my life are changed around and mixed up for dramatic purposes. So, I decided to cut out all of the baloney. Now the movie is much shorter. In fact, this is the end of the movie. Tank you veddy much. (''pause'') I am not fooling. (''longer pause'') Goodbye. Go. (''[[CreditsGag Starts playing a phonograph as credits appear]]'')
19	-->--''Film/ManOnTheMoon''
20
21	[[AC:Literature]]
22
23	->I reckon there's more things told than are true.\
24	And more things true than are told.
25	-->--'''Creator/RudyardKipling''', ''[[http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_minepit.htm The Ballad of Minepit Shaw]]''
26
27	->All of this is true. Most of it happened.
28	-->--James [=McBride=], Introduction page to ''Literature/TheGoodLordBird''
29
30	[[AC:Live-action TV]]
31
32	->The whole thing is loosely based on an evening I spent with Isiah Thomas.
33	-->--'''Tracy''', ''Series/ThirtyRock''
34
35	->We would now like to thank you for bearing with us during this story, which contains no factual basis other than the existence of elephants -- and gayness.
36	-->--'''Creator/JonStewart''', ''Series/TheDailyShow''
37
38	[[AC:Newspapers]]
39
40	->''Film/{{Newsies}}'', we are informed as the movie opens, is based on actual events. I do not doubt this. I am sure that shortly before the turn of the century, newsboys organized a strike against the greedy Joseph Pulitzer, and were cheered on by [[HookerWithAHeartOfGold a dance-hall madam with a heart of gold]]. Nor do I doubt that the lads, some of them boys of nine or ten, [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster hung out in saloons and bought rounds of beer while making their plan]], or that the proprietor of [[DastardlyWhiplash an evil city orphanage]] made himself rich by collecting fees from the city. I don't even doubt that the newsboys printed their own strike paper on an old flat-bed press down in [[SwissCheeseSecurity the basement of Pulitzer's building]]. Of course I believe. Yes, Virginia.
41	-->--'''Creator/RogerEbert'''
42
43	[[AC:Newspaper Comics]]
44
45	->The story you are about to see is absolutely true -- except for the stuff we made up to make it more interesting.
46	-->--'''Television''', ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}''
47
48	[[AC:Video Games]]
49	->'''Micht''': Heh. Once upon a time, I took care of this little runt. You could say that since then the two of us've been stuck like glue.\
50	'''Toval''': Yeah, yeah. You took care of me. That's sure one way to put it. Especially if you ignore the fact that you USED me and turned my life into a freakin' bestseller!\
51	'''Sara''': Oooh, I read that one, actually! Your youth must have been quite the roller coaster, but at least it made for some good reading! By the way, who was that sister in it? She was really larger than life.\
52	'''Toval''': Tch... Half the book was stuff this old geezer exaggerated or made up!\
53	'''Micht''': Okay, sure, I might've bent the truth a liiittle bit in the part where I died.
54	-->-- ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel''
55
56	[[AC:Web Original]]
57
58	->''Flyboys ''is based on the true life story ([[HaHaHaNo HAHAHAHAHAHAHA]])
59	-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/flyboys-2006-tony-bill/ on]] ''Flyboys'' (2006)
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61
62	->The best thing about the biopic is that Hollywood is free to embellish the back story as much as they would like. How do you know Music/RayCharles didn't really walk on the moon? Were you there? No, so shut up and watch the movie.
63	-->--'''Adam Brown''', ''Website/{{Cracked}}''
64
65	->It looks like the casting people just waltzed into an Applebee’s and [[QuestionableCasting randomly picked people]] to play the parts as fast as they could so they could get on with their 3 martini lunch. ''“You’re white. You can play Billy!”'' I look more like Jane Mancini than the actress playing Jane Mancini does. But you know, I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s a Lifetime movie. I want [[NoBudget community theater wigs]], acting that makes Creator/MeganFox look like Creator/TildaSwinton and actors who look absolutely nothing like the person they’re playing. I want that shit to be a wreck from top to bottom. And judging by that picture, it looks like the ''Melrose Place'' movie is well on its way.
66	-->--'''[[http://dlisted.com/2015/07/22/this-is-what-the-cast-of-lifetimes-unauthorized-melrose-place-movie-looks-like/ Michael K.]]''', "The cast looked exactly like [[Series/MelrosePlace the original cast]] and by that I mean not at all."
67
68	->By the way, would it kill Hollywood to produce a biopic that isn't one extended lie? They'll mangle any biography, and not even for the sake of juicy storytelling. Hawking's second wife was investigated for physically abusing him. THAT IS NOT BORING. And yet, it gets left out. Shit, there are 5,000 amazing psycho tidbits about Chris Kyle that they left out of ''Film/AmericanSniper''. If they made a biopic about Music/JohnLennon, they'd probably change the ending and have him retiring to Florida.
69	-->--'''[[http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-hater-s-guide-to-the-2015-oscars-1686621568 Drew Magary]]''' on ''Film/TheTheoryOfEverything'', "The Hater's Guide to the 2015 Oscars"
70
71	->As [[Wrestling/JesseVentura Jess]] gains popularity, he gets an offer to work for the biggest promoter in the US: James Chaney.\
72	I know what you’re asking:\
73	'''''WHO?!'''''\
74	I guess this is supposed to be [[Wrestling/VinceMcMahon Vince]], save for the fact that he looks nothing like Vince and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed isn’t, in fact, named 'Vince']]. Jess works his way up the ladder, finally getting a championship match against the promotion’s champion…{{Wrestling/Kanyon}}. Don’t ask, it gets much worse.
75	-->--'''''{{Website/Wrestlecrap}}''''' [[http://www.wrestlecrap.com/inductions/classic-induction-the-jesse-ventura-story-never-let-the-truth-get-in-the-way-of-a-good-story/ on]] ''The Jesse Ventura Story'' (1998)''
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77	[[AC:Web Video]]
78
79	->'''Mike:''' ''Red Tails'' tells the story of Native-American fighter pilots in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and has been praised by critics for its historical accuracy, [[TheGenericGuy memorable characters]], and [[{{Narm}} moving realism]]. So far, ''Red Tails'' [[BoxOfficeBomb has smashed box office records]], even sailing past James Cameron's ''{{Film/Avatar}}'', and is generally loved by moviegoers and film critics alike. How's that for an intro?\
80	'''Jay:''' Well, just like the movie itself, everything in it is ''wrong''.
81	-->--''[[WebVideo/HalfInTheBag Half in the Bag]]'' on ''Film/RedTails''
82
83	->...a film based on a graphic novel, based on an older film, based on ancient Greek propaganda, based on a true story.
84	-->--''WebVideo/HonestTrailers: [[Film/ThreeHundred 300]]''
85
86	->Based on the tragedy that spawned thousands of heart-breaking true stories... comes this fake one.
87	-->--''Honest Trailers: [[{{Film/Titanic1997}} Titanic]]''
88
89	->So yes, Literature/TheThreeMusketeers, originally serialized in French papers in 1844, is a mostly fictional story based on a semi-fictional story based on some potentially true but probably exaggerated stories about a real life person.
90	-->--'''Dominic Noble''', WebVideo/LostInAdaptation
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92	[[AC: WesternAnimation]]
93
94	->The story you are about to see is true, and by 'true', I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the ''real'' truth? The answer is no.
95	-->--'''Creator/LeonardNimoy''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E10TheSpringfieldFiles The Springfield Files]]"
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97	[[AC:RealLife]]
98
99	->God writes lousy theatre.
100	-->--'''Creator/NoelCoward''' [[note]]Or maybe Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw[[/note]]
101
102	->It's a wonderful story. But it's not ''mine''.
103	-->--'''Maria von Trapp''', about ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''
104
105	->"Creator/SarahJessicaParker smokes all the time, and ''I'' would never smoke. And she didn't contact me--she's playing my life, and she didn't bother to do any research...'I just got done telling everyone how I'm playing the worst actress in the history of film!' That wasn't nice. She didn't know me."
106	-->--'''Dolores Fuller''' on ''Film/EdWood''
107
108	->"I like when they say a movie is inspired by a true story. That's kind of silly. 'Hey, Mitch, did you hear that story about that lady who drove her car into the lake with her kids and they all drowned?' 'Yeah, I did, and you know what -- that inspires me to write a movie about a gorilla!'"
109	-->--'''Creator/MitchHedberg''', "Do You Believe in Gosh?"
110
111	->"It's like someone wrote a biography of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan in which all the stats and scores are correct, but you come away with the impression that Michael Jordan wasn't very good at playing basketball."
112	-->--'''Tanner Colby''' on Bob Woodward's "biography" of Creator/JohnBelushi
113
114	->Yes, ''Bloodsport'' was based on a true story. Often, those who see their lives put to screen are unhappy with how they're portrayed, with many taking legal action over claims of misrepresentation, as elements of the story get changed, dropped, or invented entirely, to fit the best narrative structure for a movie. [[CanonSue Not so with Frank Dux]], whose fictional portrayal was an almost verbatim recreation of how it all went down for real...Chong Li existed, and had blinded Dux in the final fight, albeit [[MetaphoricallyTrue accidentally by flicking sweat into his eyes.]]
115	-->--'''Stuart Millard''', ''Smoke & Mirrors and Steven Seagal''
116
117	->From the accounts which have reached me, the Death Star assault in Franchise/StarWars is a better fictionalization of the attack on Pearl Harbor than Film/PearlHarbor.
118	-->--'''Benjamin "Gryphon" Hutchins''', Creator/EyrieProductionsUnlimited Forums
119
120	->When you use the language of "fact checking" to talk about a film, I think you're sort of fundamentally misunderstanding how art works. You don't fact check Monet's ''Water Lilies''. That's not what water lilies look like, that's what the sensation of experiencing water lilies feels like. That's the goal of the piece ... A lot of historical films sometimes feel like people reading a Wikipedia page to you onscreen, like just reciting 'and then he did that, and then he did that, and then he did this other thing' -- it's like a 'Greatest Hits' compilation. We wanted the movie to be emotional and passionate. Our goal was to give you 'What does Alan Turing feel like?' 'What does his story feel like?'
121	-->--Screenwriter '''Graham Moore''' [[https://www.huffpost.com/entry/imitation-game-fact-checking_n_6436712 defending]] the historical inaccuracies in ''Film/TheImitationGame''
122
123	->'''Creator/MichaelFassbender''': Thomas Rongen was a Dutch football player himself, and then he ended up going to the States and coaching there. The Thomas that we bring to the screen...\
124	'''Creator/TaikaWaititi''': ...is different.\
125	'''Michael Fassbender''': Is different, for sure.\
126	'''Taika Waititi''': We had our way with a lot of the real life characters, just to be clear. There's [[Film/NextGoalWins a documentary]]. Why would I make the exact same thing?
127	-->--Discussing ''Film/NextGoalWins2023'' on ''The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show''

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