This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
- An Inconvenient Truth There is a planet called Earth in the universe. From that point on...
Nezumi: Pulling for so many reasons. It's unnecessarily politically slanted, not actually what the trope is about, needlessly inflammatory... and, well, just wrong. It's, simply put, a fact that mean global temperatures are rising — only the worst of crackpots deny that part anymore.
Citizen: Removed the Noah's Ark example, as that's just Adaptation Decay. =P
KJMackley: I separated the examples into two categories that I saw this trope becoming, real stories of real people like Pocahontas, and based obscurely on a real story or person like Citizen Kane. I'm not wholely familiar with every example so hopefully others can correct that.
Antheia: Removed the Fargo and The Blair Witch Project examples (including the other movies mentioned in the latter example), as those two are mentioned on the Based on a Great Big Lie page.
Dausuul: Removed the Natter under The Exorcism, and the whole entry for good measure:
- * The Exorcist. Another kid (a boy, not a girl) with convulsions treated by priests. Actually the first cleric called was Lutheran, but only Catholic priests appear in the film. The film includes levitation, which is often claimed in these cases, but has never been demonstrated under rigorous testing, and the rotation of a human head through 180 degrees, which even those claiming the story is true admit was added for effect. The throwing of a person through a window by the afflicted child was also added.** Why is this even listed? The Exorcist is based on a novel by William Peter Blatty, and he never claimed his story was anything more than a work of fiction, with maybe some reading of paranormal literature for inspiration.
Slatz Grobnik: Denattered and rebuilt 300. Considered adding the story of the process, but it's not really the place.
{{JAF 1970}): Big problem here. Things like Citizen Kane and movies that take their inspiration from serial killers are not based on a true story. They're roman a clefs. BIG DIFFERENCE.
