History RealityIsUnrealistic / Film

* This trope in film is OlderThanTelevision: In ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}'', the filmmakers used a striped hyena to play a werewolf because they didn't think a regular wolf would look intimidating enough.
* A number of fans complained about Creator/JesseEisenberg being cast as Lex Luthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', with many complaining that he was "too young" and accusing WB of trying to make Luthor YoungerAndHipper. In reality, [[OlderThanTheyLook Eisenberg was 30 years old when cast]], the same age as Creator/HenryCavill.
** Many reviews also criticized Lois Lane's "I'm not a lady, I'm a journalist" line, holding it up as an example of either bad writing in general or not knowing how to write for a female character specifically. The line is actually a reference to a famous quote by the real journalist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Colvin Marie Colvin]]: "There is no woman in this room, only a journalist."
** On a similar note, a few have complained about the casting of Creator/TomHolland casting as ComicBook/SpiderMan in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, citing that the 19-year-old actor was too young to portray Spider-Man, despite the fact he's meant to play the 15/16-year-old Spider-Man, while past Spider-men Creator/TobeyMaguire and Creator/AndrewGarfield were cases of DawsonCasting.
* In ''Film/{{Slacker}}'', a videogeek mentions that he recently saw a RealLife shooting, and complains that it didn't look realistic. "The blood was the wrong color."
* ''Film/{{Kids}}'': The makers of "Kids" have suggested that a lot of the outrage over the depiction of everyday teenage life in this film has more to do with the fact that people are more used to safe, idyllic depictions of teenagers usually [[DawsonCasting played by actors who are way too old to convincingly portray such roles]]. Most people aren't aware of actual teenage life or, as Larry Clark said: "Parents forget what it was like when they were kids."
* Incredibly common with accents:
** In the film ''[[Film/{{Breathless}} A Bout De Souffle]]'', the American actress Jean Seberg played an American character who lived in Paris and spoke French with an accent that was presumably Seberg's own. A poster on the [=IMDb=] forums labeled her a French actress that had put on an unconvincing American accent.
** Bostonians who saw ''Film/TheDeparted'' both inverted this trope and played it straight. Some were surprised to learn that Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio wasn't from Boston because he did the accent so well (he's actually from California). Conversely, those who didn't know Creator/MarkWahlberg is himself from South Boston thought his admittedly exaggerated take on his natural accent was ''completely'' fake.
** Amazon reviews for a 2001 BBC radio production of ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'' complained about the actors' "obviously fake" British accents.
** A review of ''Film/MillersCrossing'' complained about Gabriel Byrne's "fake" Irish accent.
** "That ''Literature/BridgetJones'' gal, [[http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=390#comment-5570 Zellweger]], when I heard her American accent in ''Chicago I'' was amazed. It seemed dead-on perfect. Completely convincing. Similarly in ''Nurse Betty''. But then I saw her in ''Cold Mountain'' and that completely destroyed the illusion." (She is from Texas.)
** Similarly, a Youtube comment on the trailer for "Perrier's Bounty" complained extensively about Cillian Murphy's "fake" Irish accent. Apparently the man's name wasn't enough of a tip-off ...
** While working in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', American actor Creator/BradDourif (Wormtongue) always spoke in an English accent in order to maintain it, and upon reverting back to his American accent at the end of filming, Creator/BernardHill (King Théoden) wondered why he was suddenly using such a fake American accent.
*** For the curious: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJreLUwQTA the interview]].
** During the filming of ''Film/DrStrangelove'', something similar occurred. The B-52 scenes were filmed in Britain. The film crew thought that Creator/SlimPickens was putting on the 'Texan' accent, and someone on the crew expressed surprise when he spoke that way after a shoot, until being informed that that was the way he normally spoke. He wasn't 'putting on' an accent.
** People have accused Creator/LiamNeeson of having a poor American Accent in films like ''Film/{{Taken}}''. While he is Northern Irish, he's lived in America for twenty years; his speaking voice is nigh-indistinguishable from a Yank, especially if you don't know he's Northern Irish. He has lost his Northern Irish accent but still has a tendency to swallow his words, whereas Americans don't.
** In the 2007 ''Film/{{Hairspray|2007}}'' adaptation, some viewers wondered why Creator/JohnTravolta was talking so strangely as Edna Turnblad. He was actually speaking in a Baltimore accent and was the only one in the film to even attempt it.
** When Creator/BryanSinger saw Creator/HughLaurie’s audition tape for ''Series/{{House}}'', he thought the actor was American. Apparently Singer had received several auditions from British and Australian hopefuls who didn't match his ideal of the character. When he saw Laurie's audition he is purported to have said, "See, this is what I want; an American guy." Singer was completely unaware that Laurie is English. In Singer's defense, Laurie not only nailed ''an'' American accent, he nailed ''the'' American accent needed to play Greg House: middle-class Central Jersey. Singer thus comes out ahead of the British viewers who complain of Laurie’s “fake” American accent. [[note]]It is possible that the average English person has no idea what Americans really sound like--hence the improbable “Americans” met so often on British television.[[/note]]
** Creator/MerylStreep's performance in ''Film/EvilAngels'' has been mocked as a bad attempt at an Australian accent, but it's actually a reasonably close imitation of Lindy Chamberlain's New Zealand accent.
%%** Many online viewers have complained that Creator/PeterDinklage has the worst fake British accent on the show, but for the most part, the complainers are Americans. More than once, an actual Brit has admitted that they thought Dinklage ''was'' British and that they didn't know he wasn't until they read the comments. Many Yanks believe there's only two or three UsefulNotes/BritishAccents. If it's not Received Pronunciation, Liverpudlian or Cockney, they assume it's fake.
* Common in regard to historical fiction; if a certain fictional account becomes popular enough, people often believe that it is an accurate representation of history.
** Case in point: Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart once alleged that Antonio Salieri had pulled strings to ensure that Mozart's opera ''Le nozze di Figaro'' would [[SpringtimeForHitler be a major flop]]. Later the two collaborated on composing a song; Salieri was given the task of teaching Mozart's son and he also promoted Mozart's compositions on a number of occasions. Six years after Salieri died, Creator/AlexanderPushkin wrote a play based around the original allegation depicting Salieri as greatly envying the genius Mozart, thus beginning the tradition of [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade showing a Salieri hostile to Mozart]]. The prominent use of this fictional invention in the play ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'' and the film based on it has led many to perceive the fiction that Salieri was responsible for Mozart's early death as a historical truth.
*** Additionally, the alleged rivalry with Salieri is said to drive Mozart to such poverty that he had to be buried in the common grave. In reality Mozart enjoyed great popularity and was receiving large commissions but was also a big spender. His modest burial was also not the result of his financial standing but of the strict Viennese burial laws and was a ceremony typical for a middle class man of his era.
*** Also, Mozart and Salieri by actual historical accounts had a mutual respect for one another.
*** Indeed, Mozart, a notorious egotist of the first-order, predicted, rightly, that Salieri's student Music/LudwigVanBeethoven would go on to be an even greater composer than Mozart himself.
*** On the other side of the foot, one of the criticisms of ''Amadeus'' is its treatment of Mozart as a bratty, immature ManChild with a fondness for jokes about poop. While he might not have been ''quite'' as immature as depicted, Mozart actually was a bit of a kid at heart with a fondness for playing with toy soldiers and ToiletHumor.
** Ditto for the play and film ''Theatre/InheritTheWind'', which took many, ''many'' liberties in depicting the actual Scopes trial (and not just the names), but are more or less accepted as historical fact today.
*** And that wasn't even the intent of the author. It was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherit_the_Wind_%28play%29#Background designed as an allegory]] to parody the ridiculous nature of [=McCarthyism=] (much like Theatre/TheCrucible), but now that the Evolution/Creationism controversy has long outlasted the Un-American Activities Committee, the fact that it was written for parodying something else has been forgotten.
** Lastly, when asked about the UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar, most people recall scenes from ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'', which portrayed a very rose-colored picture of the South. ''Gone With the Wind'' is the result of that rose-colored picture already being popular.
** UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte is always portrayed with a French accent. Yet in actuality, during his lifetime some of his French contemporaries complained that his thick Corsican Italian accent made his French nearly impossible to decipher (which may be why a few of his comedic appearances instead depict him as muttering incomprehensibly and needing to have someone else translate for him.) Also, Napoleon was not quite as short as [[TheNapoleon he is often depicted in fiction]]. In fact he was estimated to have been around 5'7", or 5'8", which would have ironically been of above-average height for a man of his time. Under-measuring of Napoleon's height was done on purpose: in the Imperial System he was 5'8" high, but with the ''Measure Nouvelle'' system he had introduced in France he was 5'4", with the British propaganda giving his height as 5'4", but omitting the reason to ridicule him. His large bodyguards and "Petit" nickname (which was not about his height but about him being AFatherToHisMen) helped too.
** Many, many residents of Texarkana, Arkansas, would swear that one of the victims of the Phantom Slayer, a SerialKiller who'd stalked the area in 1946, was killed with a knife attached to the end of a trombone. This bizarre method of killing was wholly invented for the docudrama ''Film/TheTownThatDreadedSundown'', a thriller loosely based upon the actual Moonlight Murders. Annual Halloween showings of this film by Texarkana's park department have likely contributed to this misconception.
* In ''Film/{{Valkyrie}}'', some of Colonel von Stauffenberg's cooler moments were actually cut from the film - for instance, he refused morphine because he was afraid of being addicted, but it was cut because it was felt audiences would think that the filmmakers were trying to turn Von Stauffenberg into an action hero. Similarly, the film's General Beck kills himself with a single shot. In reality, he botched his suicide very painfully, and had to be [[MercyKill finished off by a sergeant]].
* Many film critics who otherwise enjoyed ''Film/SchindlersList'' complained that the one thing they found unbelievable was Ralph Fiennes' villain Amon Goeth, saying that he was far too evil to be believable. Not only was Amon Goeth a real person, as bad as he is in the movie he got a HistoricalVillainDowngrade--the real Amon Goeth was much, much worse. Stuff like his morning ritual of shooting innocent people with a sniper rifle from his house made the movie; stuff like his TortureCellar did not. The most fictional aspects of his character are actually his (attempted) PetTheDog moments, put in to make him seem more human. Goeth was so horrible in real life, in fact, that he was actually fired by his superiors [[EvenEvilHasStandards for maltreatment of prisoners.]] Imagine how bad you have to be, to be fired for maltreatment of prisoners as ''the Commandant of a concentration camp.''
* ''Film/HiddenInSilence'': While the film has some {{Dramatization}} or PragmaticAdaptation moments, several moments which some viewers initially thought were storytelling inventions were taken directly from the real people's accounts of the story.
** Fusia's prayers are answered at key moments in a MaybeMagicMaybeMundane way, and she considered this to be a miracle in real life.
** Helena was really accosted and beaten while doing a job that Fusia couldn't risk being recognized while doing.
** The protagonists LivingWithTheVillain for several months and the Germans hearing a noise and checking the attic is real.
** Fusia really did sneak into the ghetto multiple times to meet with people before they came to her house.
** [[spoiler:Fusia did have a boyfriend who was tricked thinking she's dating a German officer because the group couldn't risk letting him find out about her secret houseguests.]]
** The first Russian soldier the group encounters after liberation really was another Jew.
* This could probably be extended to many occasions when a critic or an audience are taken out of a movie because they think a character is acting too evil to be real. ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' is another example of a film based on real events where the villainous characters were even more violent and nasty in RealLife than they were portrayed on-screen, but even many completely fictional {{Card Carrying Villain}}s get up to stuff that RealLife tyrants, terrorists or criminals might find tame.
* When Film/JamesBond used a Bell Rocket Belt in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'', its natural sound was replaced by a supposedly "more realistic" fire-extinguisher sound.
** In ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'', Creator/SeanConnery thought the scene where Bond takes off a wetsuit to reveal a pristine tuxedo was too humourous and unbelievable. It was actually drawn from screenwriter Paul Dehn's wartime experience of a Dutch resistance operation. It was later successfully tested on ''Series/MythBusters''.
** ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' ends with Bond and his latest woman floating a balloon that they're tethered to, which is then snagged by a transport plane, lifting them in the air to be reeled into the cargo bay. A few reviews said that out of the many the gadgets in the movie, this one was just too much to believe. It's the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery_system Fulton surface-to-air recovery system]] (STARS, or Skyhook), and the US military and intelligence services really did use it until 1996. A similar scene took place in ''Film/LicenceToKill'' as Franz Sanchez's airplane is lassoed by Bond and Felix Leiter's helicopter.
*** It [[Film/TheDarkKnight took a]] [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker few years]] for audiences to believe it...
** Blofeld's RightHandCat is often mistaken for a Turkish Angora [[note]]However, Persians and Angora have historically been crossbred, often making distinction difficult.[[/note]] by modern audiences. This is a result of breeding the [[IHaveManyNames Persian/Chinchilla/Iranian cat/Shirazi]] for the flat face; a [[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5598898/ deformation and a serious health hazard]]. This has resulted in the healthy straight-variety getting called a "Dollface Persian".
** In ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'', Jaws, played by the giant Creator/RichardKiel, gets a love interest named Dolly, played by Creator/BlancheRavalec. Some people thought it was ridiculous that the two would fall in love [[HugeGuyTinyGirl given their size difference]], but Kiel pointed out that his own real-life wife was the same size as Blanche.
* ''Film/{{Apollo 13}}'' was said by some reviewers to have an unrealistic ending, in the astronauts coming back to Earth alive. One thing ''was'' added to serve the RuleOfDrama - Marilyn dropped her wedding ring in the shower, but the drain holes were too fine for it to go down and be lost. (It went ''partway'' down the drain. It was just reachable for recovery.)
** Jim Lovell himself, in the audio commentary for the Laserdisc/DVD, said that the initial seconds of the Saturn V ignition looked like Ron Howard had "just run the film backwards," and were thus inaccurate. Real footage of a Saturn V launch, however, shows the initial fire plumes being sucked down into the trench below the engines, and it really ''does'' look like film of fireballs being run backwards!
** Most of the film's changes from history were events being ''deleted'', not added for dramatic effect. The actual mission involved two other course corrections and another major equipment malfunction. Ron Howard cut these out because it would have made the film too melodramatic to be believable. It also shortens the time frame before NASA was able to reestablish contact with the astronauts after reentry- the film mentions that the longest time any communications blackout had lasted before a crew was returned safely home was for three minutes, which is true, but the time given before the astronauts contact them is slightly over four. In real life, it was ''six'', double the time of any previous blackout.
** In a rare inversion of the HistoricalBadassUpgrade, the astronauts act significantly ''more'' fearful, stressed-out, and emotive in the movie than they were in real life, where they [[NervesOfSteel remained totally calm and in control throughout the mission.]] (The harshest language any of them used on the mission log was indeed "[[GoshDangItToHeck frappin']]".) This was likely done because the audience would never have believed that anyone could stay so cool in such a stressful situation, to make it easier to root (and fear) for them, and also because having the guys react with complete unflappable professionalism is [[RuleOfDrama not as exciting or suspenseful to watch.]]
** The way that mission control figures out how to fit the Command Module's air filters to the Lunar Module's insert slots was a much more "Hollywood" solution in real life than the movie depicts it. The film depicts it as the work of a team of engineers working tirelessly around the clock to come up with a solution, in real life it was thought up by '''one guy''' ''[[EurekaMoment in his car while driving to work]]''.
* While ''Film/Armageddon1998'' is wildly scientifically inaccurate, it actually got one thing right: sending the shuttles around the far side of the Moon to perform a SpaceshipSlingshotStunt, stealing a little momentum and kicking them on their way. The effect has been used by space agencies for decades to launch deep-space probes such as Voyager, often looping from one planet to another to gain multiple slingshots. Ironically, the movie was criticized in some quarters for being unrealistic because of this, the argument being that cars tend to fly off corners when you go around them fast. And as we all know, [[SarcasmMode spaceships behave]] ''[[SarcasmMode exactly]]'' [[SarcasmMode like cars]].
** Oddly, the very name of the slingshot effect exhibits this effect: slingshots do not work that way - slings do. Slings are rather different from slingshots, but nevertheless the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist slingshot terminology has stuck]].
*** Mentally add a space and it works fine: "sling shot", as in what the ''ammunition'' is called and what the vehicle is doing.
* The ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' series:
** Used outright in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', where [[spoiler:[[TheQuisling Nazi collaborator]] Donovan chooses the most ostentatious goblet (believing it to be a cup befitting the [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} "King of Kings"]]) from the table of possible Holy Grails, drinks, and promptly dies horribly. Indy and Elsa Schneider quickly search the table for the ''least'' ornate cup, because that's the kind of cup a simple carpenter would actually have.]]
** In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', there is a reference to the Japanese bombing Shanghai. Many believe this to be anachronistic, referring to an event from 1937 (the movie takes place in 1935). Actually, the Japanese also bombed Shanghai in 1932.
* There's a film made for Channel 4 called ''Yasmin'' where in one scene, a Muslim woman is being abused by children on the high street. At the end an old woman comes out and apologizes in a really badly acted way that completely ruins all verisimilitude. Apparently this old woman was a random person off the street who didn't realize there was filming going on and the director decided not to reshoot the scene.
* In many movies, when an eagle is shown calling, the sound of a red-tailed hawk's [[StockSoundEffects screech]] is dubbed over it. Apparently the red-tailed hawk's cry is stronger and more dramatic than the eagle's (and audiences have come to associate [[MisplacedWildlife the red-tailed hawk's sound with eagles]]).
* A studio executive allegedly complained that the actor playing Senator Joseph [=McCarthy=] in the historical biopic ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'' was overacting badly. Actually all of Senator [=McCarthy=]'s scenes consisted of StockFootage of [[YourCostumeNeedsWork the man himself]], who actually did overact badly.
* The makeup artists in the movie ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'' went through several iterations of Mason Verger's mangled face before getting to the one you see on screen. The first few they did looked how somebody who had cut his own face off would actually appear, but they realized that it looked ridiculous. So they made his face less realistic and more disturbing.
* ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''
** The film's creators first used accurate measures for the head of the Art/StatueOfLiberty, but test audiences complained that it looked too small. For this reason they made it 50% larger than it really is. Even then some people ''still'' complain that it looks too small.
** Another major sticking point was that the main characters can use their cell phones in subways. Guess what? People do that, especially in New York City, where some subway stations actually go the extra mile to enable cellphone usage. At this point it wouldn't be surprising to find out that if there really are giant monsters, they work just like Clover do just because people call him impossible.
* During the scene in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' (also known as ''Die Hard 4.0'') in which Bruce Willis ducks under a car flipping through the air and is only saved when it lands on two other cars that just happen to be driving right by him, a lot of people complained about how obviously fake the CGI cars looked. In reality, all of the cars were real.
** Many people made fun of the plot, believing it to be unrealistic. Actually, similar events had been performed in the past (gas line explosion, hacking with laptop, etc.), just never all at once.
* Used extensively, and influentially, throughout ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' and ''Series/BandOfBrothers'', with realistically low-key bullet impacts and deaths as well as explosions that are more concussive than fiery. Furthermore, several of the acts perpetrated by Allied soldiers were deliberately un-Hollywood, such as shooting enemy soldiers InTheBack, and killing soldiers who were in the process of surrendering, although this tendency also dates back to revisionist war films of the 1950s and 1960s, such as ''Film/TheDirtyDozen'', ''Film/KellysHeroes'', and Creator/RobertAldrich's ''Film/{{Attack}}''. On the other hand, ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' also suffered from PaintingTheMedium, with its jerky cinematography and desaturated color palette (despite being set in the middle of summer in Northern France).
** ''Film/SavingPrivateRyan'' is very realistic in its depiction of the [[MadeOfPlasticine effects of high-grade ballistics and explosives on the poor sods on the business end]]. A 20mm autocannon (a gun normally used for taking out ''aircraft'') instantly decapitates one of the American paratroopers and leaves two others so grotesquely maimed that the German soldiers shooting them seems like a MercyKill more than anything. Soldiers are depicted losing limbs from mortar impacts. One man trying to use an improvised explosive (a bunch of Comp B stuffed into a sock with a simple burning fuse) has it go off in his hand and [[LudicrousGibs there's not enough to bury]].
* And another war movie example: In ''Film/TheBigRedOne'' the soldiers hide from a group of German soldiers. After the Germans have passed by the American soldiers get up and want to walk on, but find one of their comrades is dead. Upon finding his body in the hole he was hiding in, a soldier comments that he had not even heard a shot being fired. The experienced squad leader just explains that the dead guy is not the first soldier to die from a heart attack in the middle of a war and won't be the last.
* Creator/ChristopherLee has told a story (in ''The Films of Christopher Lee'') that when he tried to perform a scene of his being shot the way he'd seen people shot in WWII -- "I put an expression of slight surprise on my face and slowly sank to the floor with great dignity" -- the people on set found it hilarious.
** For those who didn't see the DVD extras, Christopher Lee served with the Special Operations Executive in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The SOE's job was to perform sabotage across Europe. While the actions of all SOE agents are still classified, during filming of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', Christopher Lee told Creator/PeterJackson from firsthand experience exactly what kind of sound Saruman would make on being fatally stabbed in the back.
*** A similar incident occurred to Curtis Jackson (who was shot 9 times by someone in 2000) while making ''Film/DenOfThieves''. Jackson and the director had a dispute over how a person actually would react to being shot, and the director found Jackson's explanations unbelievable.
** Lee was also turned down for a role in ''Film/TheLongestDay''... for not looking like a military man. [[FridgeBrilliance Which would actually make sense]], the SOE were involved in covert actions more than direct combat and looking like a regular soldier would actually be a disadvantage.
*** Creator/PeterButterworth, later to be a regular in the ''Film/CarryOnSeries'', auditioned for a part in the 1949 film ''The Wooden Horse'', a true story about British Prisoners of War who use a vaulting horse to conceal the entrance to their escape tunnel. He was turned down because the film makers felt he "didn't look convincingly heroic or athletic enough". Butterworth had actually been in the real prison camp and had been one of the vaulters who provided cover for those digging the tunnel.
* In ''Film/{{Milk}}'', a number of reviewers complained that a scene involving a gay teen being unable to flee his abusive parents who are planning on sending him to a "special facility" because he's in a wheelchair -- [[spoiler:and then turning up safe and sound in Los Angeles at Milk's moment of triumph]] -- was unrealistic and played only to tug at the heartstrings. This actually happened in real life.
* [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049470/trivia IMDb's trivia page]] for ''Film/TheManWhoKnewTooMuch'' includes this titbit:
-->The plot calls for a man (Daniel Gélin in the role of Louis Bernard) to be discovered as "not Moroccan" because he was wearing black makeup. The makeup artists couldn't find a black substance that would come off easily, and so they painted the fingers of the other man (Jimmy Stewart) white, so that he would leave pale streaks on the other man's skin (according to Patricia Hitchcock, this idea was suggested by Daniel Gélin).
* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
** Many people have questioned the famous scene from in which ComicBook/TheJoker's request for a phone call in jail is refused. In reality, there is no law or precedent requiring people in jail to get a phone call. Of course, that being said, most police officers are more than happy to let a prisoner make a telephone call from a department phone. The reason being, unless the prisoner speaks to their lawyer, whatever they says over the phone isn't confidential speech, and the police are more than free to listen in and/or record the conversation.
** During the making of the film, the filmmakers thought that Batman's cape would get caught in the back wheel of the Batpod, and as such a backpack-mode was designed for the cape. However, the cape did not, and so Christopher Nolan and costume designer Lindy Hemming went with letting Batman wear the fabric cape while on the Batpod as well.
** The SWATTeam's entry tactics late in the movie were questioned, especially regarding them never opening fire on the Joker's minions or the disguised hostages. In reality, the SWAT team was following actual procedure: until the suspect raises their weapon, they are not an immediate threat and cannot be fired upon.
** Similarly, Two-face's face. The original design was a realistically burnt face, but test audiences found it so unsettling that the filmmakers turned the damage up to eleven in order to make the face more outlandish than sinister.
** There were also complaints about fake-looking CGI, especially regarding [[SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome flipping the Joker's eighteen-wheeler]]. All the visual effects used in the film were practical, either models or, in the case of the truck, ''flipping an actual goddamn eighteen-wheeler'' (albeit one [[RuleOfCool reinforced so as not to break in half in mid-stunt]]).
** Similarly, the opening of ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' was criticized for the scene where Bane destroys a plane by hooking it to another plane and blowing the wings off in midair, which the team accomplished in real life by [[CrazyEnoughToWork hooking a plane to another plane and blowing the wings off in midair.]]
* ''Film/ToHellAndBack'' is the true story of Creator/AudieMurphy, a WWII combat vet, except it's not. He had to ask the writers to take out some parts that were included in his autobiography, for fear that he would be called a liar. The full details of just what he did show up in Cracked.com's article ''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html Real Life Soldiers that Make Rambo Look Like a Pussy]]''.
** The Chinese movie ''Film/MenBehindTheSun'' was criticized as being an exploitation film and being too over the top with its violence, despite the fact that everything in the film is based on some experiment the Japanese scientists actually performed (Unit 731).
** In a similar vein, the South Korean war epic, ''Film/TheAdmiralRoaringCurrents'' dramatizes the 1597 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Myeongnyang Battle of Myeognyang Strait]]. The actual battle was [[CurbStompBattle/RealLife had the Korean Navy suffer zero ship casualties, and only 2 sailor casualties]] despite being outnumbered 10-1 in the warship department, so the movie had to take liberties to make it more compelling.
* Speaking of ''Film/RamboIV'', the 2008 film's climax had Rambo using a .50 caliber machinegun mounted on a jeep to brutally dispatch dozens of government troops, along with an armored patrol boat and a transport truck. Critics and audience members thought that the ease with which the machinegun dismembered or mangled anything it was pointed at was unrealistic. Military veterans who saw the film, inversely, more or less nodded and said, "Yeah, that's pretty much what a .50 round will do to a human body," understanding quite well that the .50 cal is an ''extremely'' [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Rifle_cartridge_comparison.jpg large bullet]].
** Earlier in the film, there's a scene where Rambo detonates a Tall Boy bomb to kill a squad of soldiers. The resulting explosion [[EverythingMakesAMushroom created a mushroom cloud]]. Some viewers criticized this, sarcastically commenting on how Rambo apparently survived a nuclear explosion and resulting fallout. In truth, some non-nuclear explosions ''can'' produce a mushroom cloud, and the Tall Boy [[ShownTheirWork is one such bomb]].
* One example from the filming of the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'': Two railroad employees' testimonies of seeing smoke behind the grassy knoll fence on November 22, 1963 is used by Oliver Stone as indisputable proof that there was a second gunman present to help [[WhoShotJFK kill President Kennedy]]. Problem was, during filming of a flashback, [[http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100smoke.html none of the rifles they used emitted any visible smoke]]. The special effects team had to be brought in with a smoke machine to complete the illusion. As it turns out, modern gunpowder (which has been the standard since the late 19th Century) is called "smokeless" for a reason.
* SFX artist Creator/TomSavini, who often uses his memories of dead bodies he encountered during his tour of duty in the Vietnam War to create his gore effects, is criticized by some because his makeup effects look "faker" than others.
* In ''Film/TheShining'' (1980), apparently for the scene in which Jack breaks down the bathroom door, the props department built a door that could be easily broken. However, Creator/JackNicholson had worked as a volunteer fire marshal and tore it apart far too easily. The props department was then forced to build a stronger door for the storyline and dramatic effect.
** RealLife doors are, in fact, exactly as easy to break down as portrayed in the movie, even by amateurs. This is because your average indoor door is actually pretty flimsy, being composed more of empty space (to reduce weight and material costs) than actual wood, since they're mostly meant to block sight and noise rather than attempts to break them down. A safety door made of massive wood, on the other hand, is nearly impossible to break through with a simple axe in any reasonable timeframe. In fact, it's usually easier to attack the door''frame,'' which doesn't have as much mass.
* Some viewers of ''Film/{{Munich}}'' complained that the scene in which the Mossad agents [[DisguisedInDrag dress as women]] in order to approach the apartment they are raiding in Tarifa without suspicion was ridiculous, contrived, and ruined the realism of the film. Presumably they were unaware that this particular sequence was closely based on Operation Spring of Youth, a real Mossad operation, in which the men did indeed dress like women to approach their target.
* Creator/RidleyScott actually declined to include any reference in ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'' to the historical practice of gladiators endorsing products from their sponsors, specifically out of fear of this trope.
** In addition, Commodus agreeing to enter the ring seems like plot device to allow Maximus to have his revenge. The real Emperor Commodus actually ''did'' in fact fight in the Colosseum, though it didn't lead to his death.
** The movie's recreation of the Battle of Zama in the Colosseum was criticized for the inclusion of [[MenAreTheExpendableGender female archers]] on the Roman side of the battle. Female gladiators [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator#Women did in fact exist]] in the time period the movie takes place, and are certainly no less realistic than any of the film's other breaks with history.
* The Bad Guy's lair in the first ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'' movie not only looked fake but actually a bit on the nose and over-the top ''evil''. Turns out, it was filmed in a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary real bone church]] made out of actual human bones during the Black Plague. (Near Prague, if anyone's interested.)
** There was a Discovery Channel show on it in 2007. The church is beautiful in a somewhat macabre manner.
* The Website/AgonyBooth [[http://www.agonybooth.com/movies/Howling_II__Your_Sister_is_a_Werewolf_1986.aspx recap]] of ''Film/HowlingIIYourSisterIsAWerewolf'' runs into a similar example as ''Film/DungeonsAndDragons2000'', where writer Ed Harris makes fun of the cheesy "spooky" props in the opening montage, in particular saying that "the skeletons look like the sort of thing you get for Halloween out of the bargain bin because all the good decorations are gone." In reality, this montage was shot at a similar real-life ossuary in the Czech town of Mělník, and the skeletal remains are real.
* The movie ''Film/TheGreatRaid'' was lambasted by some critics, especially bloggers, as being unrealistically gung-ho about the rescue mission due to the large differences in casualty rates as very few Americans and Filipinos died in the film compared to the scores of Japanese. The brutality of the Japanese in the film was also criticized as over-the-top, even racist. This ignored the fact that in the real life mission the film was based on the Japanese sustained 523 casualties total (killed and wounded) while the total casualties of the Filipino guerrillas performing the rescue numbered under 30, and the American Rangers suffering two. The brutality of the Japanese in the film was also very much downplayed compared to the multiple documented cases of how horribly UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan treated the people in its conquered territories.
* The 1996 film ''Film/TheGhostAndTheDarkness'', about a pair of man-eating lions, featured "conventional" maned lions. The real-life Tsavo man-eaters were actually part of a maneless subspecies. This may have been for the crew's safety as well as this trope; the Tsavo subspecies is well known for aggressive behavior (without manes, they have to be to attract mates).
** The screenwriters averted the trope by choosing to fictionalise many of the events rather than include events that actually happened according to eyewitness accounts for fear that viewers would find the lions' brazen acts such as pulling passengers out of train car windows unrealistic.
** Also there was no other hunter to help kill the lions... Patterson supposedly did pretty much everything himself. The secondary character's addition is one part WagTheDirector on the part of Michael Douglas, and one part this trope. If Val Kilmer's Patterson had been the badass big game hunter the real Patterson was reputed to be, people would have claimed ''he'' was demanding the director and writers make him cooler.
* One of the complaints about the film ''Film/TheKingdom'' is that it's an American imperialist propaganda film about how evil Arabs are, even in countries aligned with America. However, the attacks that drive the film are based on ''actual bombings'' possibly involving Saudi terrorists.
** And recording of the action on the portable camera? Very common among various group, prevalent in the Hezbollah, where such recordings are used for propaganda and training purposes.
* One of the criticisms raised about ''Film/EnemyAtTheGates'' was that it interrupted an exciting story about the sniper duel between Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev and his Nazi counterpart during the Battle of Stalingrad with a pointless RomanticPlotTumor between Zaytsev and Rachel Weisz's character. Thing is, the 'sniper duel' was pure Soviet propaganda, whereas Zaytsev actually did have a relationship with the woman Weisz's character is based on.
** And that was one of the few historically realistic things in that movie. Actual veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad were quite pissed off about how disrespectfully their history was portrayed.
* A common criticism of Sylvester Stallone's critically-panned racing film ''Film/{{Driven}}'' is that the crashes are ridiculously overblown and physically impossible. Though the crashes are CG, the reality is that only one of the incidents shown in the film is truly outside the realm of possibility, and most of the crashes are actually far TAMER than crashes that have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVpux5JxqEk actually happened in real life.]] Realism failure in the movie comes more from portraying a single season as having so MANY crashes of such a nature, rather than the severity of the crashes themselves.
* Some viewers thought that Speed celebrating his final victory with milk in the ''Film/SpeedRacer'' movie was an example of FrothyMugsOfWater. In fact, this is also how winners of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_500#Milk Indianapolis 500]] celebrate their victories.
* Creator/WilliamGoldman mentions three examples for ''Film/ABridgeTooFar''. First, a British general (Dirk Bogarde) who sends his troops to a supposedly undefended territory, although he actually has information about German troops being there, but doesn't care. Second, Creator/JamesCaan forcing a medical officer to operate on his captain, who seems to be dead (which he isn't, of course). Third, Ryan O'Neal as general James Gavin who was deemed to be too young for the role by the critics - despite being exactly the same age as the real Gavin had been at that time.
** There was also a complaint (or number of complaints) during the filming from Colonel Frost about the way Creator/AnthonyHopkins (playing Col. Frost) moved from house to house during the battle of Arnhem. Frost claimed that no British officer (and certainly not him) would do anything but show disdain for enemy fire by walking from place to place. Although this seems reckless and less than credible, Hopkins apparently tried, but, when the gunfire started, instinct took over and he dashed around in a half-crouch.
* When ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' was released, there was a widespread rumor/misconception that the twins were completely computer-generated characters. Many people said that, while looking pretty decent, they still didn't look all that convincing. In actuality they were portrayed by real actors (when not in their "ghost" form).
* Critics of ''Film/{{Unstoppable}}'' complained that the way control was lost over [[RunawayTrain the train]] was too contrived. Not only was the film inspired by a true story (the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSX_8888_incident "Crazy Eights" incident]]), but the train in real life became a runaway through an even more improbable set of circumstances.
* The original plan in ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' was to have ''Discovery'' fly to Saturn. To that end, Kubrick's special effects team tried to create a model of Saturn that was as realistic as possible. However, the more realistic they made it, the faker it looked! The rings looked like a flat band of metal foil held up by plexiglass. Thus, the trip to Saturn was scrapped in favor of a trip to Jupiter. Flash forward a decade-and-a-half, when Voyager 1 sent back close-up RealLife photos of Saturn and its rings -- the rings in Voyager's photos looked exactly like the flat, "fake" ones that Kubrick's production team had abandoned!
** Also, the ''Discovery'' was originally designed with large radiator fins, which is indeed realistic because spacecraft need a way to dissipate excess heat from the engines. However, the production team chose to omit the fins because they looked too much like wings, and they didn't want audience members to think that the ''Discovery'' was intended for atmospheric flight.
* Stop and think: how many libraries have you seen whose books are not mostly standing straight, one against another like bricks? And yet for some reason movie set designers, such as the one in ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', have often insisted on making bookshelves look more "realistic" by having the books be stacked messily and lean crazily against each other on both sides, unlike virtually any real bookshelves.
* Speaking of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'', Peter Venkman is sometimes given the RonTheDeathEater treatment for using Thorazine to pacify a possessed Dana, since it seems like he brought a powerful tranquilizer with him on a date. While psychology is not a field of medicine, psychologists can indeed prescribe medication if they've gotten sufficient medical training. (As for how he got it, Louis earlier mentioned a nearby pharmacy that delivers to the apartments.)[[note]]They can't do this in real-life New York, but it's nevertheless not an impossibility.[[/note]]
* In the French movie ''The Bear'', they used natural bear cub sounds for the baby bear, but in real life they sound almost exactly like a human baby whimpering, leading many people to believe the sounds were faked by a human.
* ''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'' was criticized for portraying prison guards as using beatings to control inmates, [[http://www.correctionsone.com/treatment/articles/2017869-ACLU-suing-Corrections-Corp-of-America/ but prison guards have been known to do exactly that in real life.]]
* People have criticized Martha's [[GayngstInducedSuicide reaction to her own sexuality]] in ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour''; even a few actors from the movie in recent years have criticized that aspect. However this movie is based off a '30s play so it probably takes place in TheThirties; even if not so, it takes place in early [[TheSixties 1960s]] America. It'd be an understatement to say that it wouldn't be unusual for her not to protest homophobic people. Considering she was already having a bad time about her unrequited feelings for Karen even before the MaliciousSlander began, and that she probably felt she wrecked Karen's life along with everyone considering her horrible and gross due to being gay, her behavior wasn't that out-of-it.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** The prequels are frequently criticized for an over-reliance on CGI with critics ironically pointing to examples that were achieved the old-fashioned way. Few people realize that each prequel film contained more models and practical effects than the entire original trilogy combined!
** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' was endlessly ridiculed over Padmé being elected queen. Not only are {{elective monarch|y}}ies real, but the monarch of Malaysia even has a fixed term of office!
** ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'':
*** Bringing up Christopher Lee once again, several people, a number of internet critics included, derided Dooku's flip down from the balcony as [[SpecialEffectFailure bad CGI]]. In fact, it was an actual live stunt with wirework, with the only CGI being replacing the stuntman's head with Lee's.
*** Infamously, Padme was said to have died of a broken heart in ''Revenge of the Sith'', in one of the trilogy's {{Narm}}iest scenes. However, even ignoring the fact that she had just given birth and that her trachea was likely damaged from Vader force-choking her (the explanation given by the novelization), DeathByDespair is actually TruthInTelevision, as a traumatic enough event, such as the loss of a loved one or a terminal disease diagnosis could lead to someone giving up mentally and psychologically, and dying a short time afterwards as a result of this. In fact, it's not uncommon for old married couples to die with months, and even weeks, of difference between them. [[HarsherInHindsight Notably]], after Creator/CarrieFisher, who played Leia in the Original and Sequel Trilogies, died suddenly in December 2016, her mother Creator/DebbieReynolds died the following day after suffering a stroke attributed to grief from losing her daughter.
** ''Film/TheForceAwakens'':
*** Many internet fans went into an uproar about the "fake-looking CGI" droid when the first trailer for ''Episode VII'' was released showing BB-8 rolling across a desert landscape at high speed. Much eating of words ensued when, during a panel to promote the movie a few weeks later, the effects crew brought the actual working BB-8 puppet out onstage.
*** Some people watching ''Film/TheForceAwakens'' bemoaned the "ridiculous fake voice" Creator/AdamDriver was using as Kylo Ren when unmasked, apparently unaware that Driver's natural speaking voice really is that deep. From the same film, others were disappointed with the "CGI" used on Unkar Plutt - who was realized totally through PracticalEffects, portrayed on set by Creator/SimonPegg in an animatronic suit, although some CGI was used to enhance his expressions.
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' was harshly criticized for a scene in which [[spoiler: General Leia]] survives after being blown out into space, by using the Force to return to the spaceship, seeming to suffer no lasting harm from it. NASA tests on rapid decompression to vacuum in the 1960s, however, had a ''100% survival and full recovery'' for up to two minutes of exposure once the subjects were repressurized, and [[spoiler: Leia]] was only out there for about one minute fifty seconds. The fact that [[spoiler: Leia is a Force-user could've also helped her to survive. After all, Maul survived being cut in half]].
** Much like Unkar in ''The Force Awakens'', some fans complained about the "poor CGI" used to depict Lady Proxima in ''Film/SoloAStarWarsStory'', who was, again, a totally practical character. Proxima was in fact done much the same way as the original Jabba the Hutt from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', as a massive puppet onset, albeit much more complex - Jabba was controlled by a team of six puppeteers, Proxima required nearly thirty, most of whom were submerged within her bathing pool during filming.
* ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]'' has the same problem ''The Last Jedi'' had, with some viewers assuming Bowman's brief exposure to vacuum should have led to him exploding instantly due to the unequal pressure. In fact, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontrolled_decompression#Exposure_to_a_vacuum_causes_the_body_to_explode the human body is tough enough to survive a pressure drop of one atmosphere]] although your eardrums may suffer, and the scene is in the movie because Creator/ArthurCClarke had written a short story called "[[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?62787 Take A Deep Breath]]", in which some astronauts on a space station are rescued by a brief jump from one open airlock to another without benefit of spacesuits. The unrelaistic aspect of this scene is Bowman holding his breath during exposure to vacuum: he should have exhaled before opening the hatch of his pod.[[note]][[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byford_Dolphin#Diving_bell_accident The only known instance of bodies exploding from a rapid pressure shift involved a nine-atmosphere difference in an undersea hyperbaric chamber]][[/note]].
* The Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic ''Film/OnTheBasisOfSex'' hit some financing snags early on because the studio had a hard time convincing people that a couple who got married in 1954 were really equal partners and that her husband Martin was always supportive of her career.
* Fans of ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' (including the people who do the commentary track for the DVD version) are fond of claiming that the film's one weak link is Karl Malden's character, Father Barry. According to the critics, his didactic sermons and high moral tone sometimes stand in contrast with the naturalistic dialogue in the rest of the movie, and Karl Malden occasionally overplays the part by being sanctimonious and one-dimensional. What they seem not to realize is that, according to writer Bud Schulberg, about 80% of Barry's "unrealistic" "Sermon on the Docks" was taken from the speeches of the ''real-life'' waterfront priest Fr. John Corridan, S.J. Not only that, but Karl Malden lived with Fr. Corridan for several days before shooting (he purchased Corridan's hat and coat and wore them onscreen), and was specifically asked by Corridan ''not'' to play the character as "holier-than-thou", and therefore made deliberate efforts to tone it down.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** Jon Favreau related this anecdote that took place during the filming of ''Film/IronMan1'' for a documentary on the history of Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic; while looking at the film rushes one day, he looked at a scene of the Iron Man armor and commented that he thought that the lighting effects in the CGI for that scene were off. He was then informed that the shot was of the actual full-sized armor, not CGI.
** In the ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'' parody of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Armin Zola questions the Red Skull why they should label their bombs in English. The words written on the bombs were names of US cities: New York, Chicago, etc. These names are written the same way in both English and German; therefore, the bomb labels were in fact written in German.
*** In the actual film, many people thought that the skinny Steve Rogers was the actual Chris Evans, while the bulked up Steve Rogers was achieved through CGI. In fact, it was the other way around.
** Some fans criticized the quality of the CGI in ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' used to make actor John Kani look like a younger T'Chaka, commenting that the same thing was done in ''Film/AntMan1'' on Michael Douglas to much better effect. As you might have guessed from the rest of this page, there was no CGI used on young T'Chaka's face whatsoever; that was actually John Kani's [[RealLifeRelative son Atwande]], who looks almost exactly [[StrongFamilyResemblance like a younger version of his father.]]
* In ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'''s parody of ''Film/StarTrek2009'', Kirk suggests dumping all of their extra mass in order to allow their ship to move with greater velocity against the black hole, and Spock reprimands him as "that is not how spaceships work"... That's the fundamental theory of astrodynamics, actually.
* Creator/ClintEastwood mentioned in an interview that during the filming of ''Film/TheEigerSanction'', he would have to dangle off the side of a cliff upside down with a rope tied to his leg. Eastwood insisted on doing the stunt himself, because he wanted the camera to zoom in on his face to show that it actually was him. Later, he snuck into a screening of the film to gauge the audience reaction, and most of them thought that the scene was done with special effects.
* James Purefoy, best known for speaking TheQueensLatin in the TV-series ''Series/{{Rome}}'', puts on a very strange, vaguely British accent to play Film/SolomonKane in the 2010 film adaptation. Solomon Kane is from the West Country and it happens to be a West Country accent ... and Purefoy's natural accent (although Kane comes from Devon, whereas Purefoy is from Somerset).
* The movie ''Film/RedTails'', as well as the older MadeForTV film ''Tuskegee Airmen'', both about the all-black 332d Fighter Group of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, features a scene where one of the pilots manages to blow up a destroyer using only his machine guns, and predictably drew complaints that a fighter plane didn't carry enough firepower for that kind of effect. Most American fighter planes in WWII carried six .50 caliber machine guns, firing a rifle round that was a half-inch thick, which was nothing to sneeze at by itself. These planes often carried armor-piercing and incendiary ammo for their guns. And destroyers of that era often carried their [[MadeOfExplodium torpedoes and depth charges]] on the deck of the ship, being too small to carry them anywhere else... long story short, that happened, and it wasn't even an isolated incident. [[ArtisticLicenseShips The real problem]] is that the ship that appears in ''Red Tails'' is not the Italian-built ''Rosalino Pilo''-class destroyer that really was crippled by two Tuskeegee Airmen,[[note]]It had been seized by Germany and rechristened ''[=TA22=]'' after the Italian surrender and was on its way north when the two planes happened on it, and was so badly shot up that it was scrapped not long after.[[/note]] but a ''Littorio''-class battleship which realistically would have found a strafing run by a P-40 or P-51 mildly annoying.
* Most frogs give a single "Roak" sound. But in most American media the sound of frogs is a steady "Ribbit ribbit ribbit," the sound of the Pacific Chorus Frog, a native of the surroundings of Hollywood.
** Fans of the Japanese characters [[Manga/SgtFrog Keroro]] and [[Creator/{{Sanrio}} Keroppi]] will be unsurprised to hear that some common Japanese frogs make a Kero..Kero...sound.
* The 1990 German film ''Film/EuropaEuropa'' (released in Germany as ''Hitlerjunge Salomon" ("Hitler Youth Salomon")) tells the story of a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who poses as a German when he is captured after the Germans invade the USSR. He is so persuasive that he is eventually adopted by a Wehrmacht officer and sent to the special elite SS youth school in Berlin, where an instructor at one point pronounces him "an authentic Aryan" despite his dark complexion. He is later saved from exposure when a Gestapo officer who is investigating his background is killed in a bombing ... moments after the hero leaves the building. At the end, he is about to be executed by the Red Army as a Nazi despite his protestations that he is a Jew, when his brother, just liberated from a concentration camp, recognizes him. A lot of critics found these later coincidences contrived and unbelievable. But while the ending was indeed written for the movie, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Perel Solomon Perel]], who wrote the memoir the film was based on, did indeed survive the war the way depicted in the film.
* A number of critics complained that the climactic shootout between assault-rifle-wielding bank robbers and pistol-packing cops in ''Film/{{Heat}}'' was totally unrealistic and broke their WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief (it had more gunfire than any other film of 1995). Two years later, the North Hollywood shootout proved that the film's version of such an event was actually ''tamer'' than reality. Nowadays, it's regarded as one of the most realistic and intense firefights in cinematic history.
* ''The Hard Way'' has an in-universe example. When Nick Lang is trying to get into the head of cop John Moss, he asks about the piano in Moss' apartment.
-->'''Moss''': My father played.
-->'''Lang''': His father played, I like that. It has its own reality. But I can't use it, nobody would believe it.
* The film of the musical ''Theatre/{{Brigadoon}}'' was filmed in studio. According to some accounts, Vincente Minelli looked into Scottish locations, but couldn't find any that "looked like Scotland". (Other accounts say he decided [[UsefulNotes/BritishWeather the weather was lousy]], or MGM had an economy drive.)
* An in-story example in ''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'', when the three heroes make a failure attempt at killing a walking cadaver by impaling its brain and decapitating it. Simply because it "worked in the movies".
* In ''Party Monster'', Michael Alig and James St. James' drug use is considerably less than what they used in real life. The film makers toned it down out of fear viewers would find it unrealistic.
* In ''Film/{{Hounddog}}'', Lewellen's father is hit by a lightning and survives with massive psychic damage, which prompted many critics to express a complete disbelief. Actually a lightning victim is more likely to suffer brain damage (but survive) than to outright die.
* In ''Film/MutinyOnTheBounty'', which was filmed on location in Tahiti, white sand was imported to the location from the USA, because the black beaches of Tahiti didn't fit in with the audience's preconceptions about tropical islands.
* In ''Film/TheXFilesFightTheFuture'', CGI was used to depict a swarm of bees because a real swarm of bees looked tame and unconvincing on camera.
* The title characters' sex scene in ''Film/ZackAndMiriMakeAPorno'' is an in-universe example. While actually closer to IdealizedSex, it's realistic in universe, what with it being a Hollywood film and all, but unusable in the porno because it isn't pornographically stylized.
* In ''Film/XXx'', Xander Cage neutralizes the terrorists' nerve gas missile by sinking it in a river. It seems like a standard action film plot device... except that the standard way of destroying organophosphate-based nerve agents is sinking them in a large body of running water.
* Many viewers of ''Film/Alien3'' complained about how fake the "CGI" alien looked; never mind that it wasn't CGI at all.
* In a scene from ''Film/AlienResurrection'', the SpacePirates and Ripley are swimming through a flooded area. Originally, the film crew just filled the set with water, but they decided that it didn't look natural enough, so they added milk to make it look more turbid.
** In the basketball scene, when Ripley throws the ball backwards and lands it in the net, many viewers pointed out the convenience that the ball goes off screen for a split second, inferring that it was either CG'd into the shot or dropped by someone above the net. In reality, Sigourney Weaver practiced hard for the scene and achieved the shot; it was just to her misfortune that the ball went off screen. The scene itself cuts very quickly in the finished film because of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF44YvDVP8Y Ron Perlman and the other actors breaking character and hollering at the achievement.]]
* In one of her diaries she kept for the filming of ''Film/SenseAndSensibility'', Emma Thompson describes a love scene that was shot near a lake. Right on cue, a pair of white swans drifted past during filming. Director Ang Lee ordered them removed, declaring it too sentimental and fake.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' fans have complained about the Heisei Mothra prop looking like a plush toy, and how the Showa and [[Film/GodzillaMothraKingGhidorahGiantMonstersAllOutAttack GMK]] Mothra are "so much more realistic"; nevermind real moths can look [[http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1360/1199821156_4a1a158f39.jpg?v=0 quite toylike]] when viewed in extreme closeup.
** Another big complaint of the franchise (particularly by [[Film/{{Godzilla 1998}} Tri-Godzilla]] fanboys) is that Godzilla himself is unrealistic because of his humanoid posture. In real life, this is a more likely posture for a 300-story dinosaur then an average theropod posture, since Godzilla's posture distributes weight between the thick, crocodile-like tail and the bulky, four-toed feet.
*** Especially amusing considering that the only aquatic dinosaur we know of has the same posture.
** When the first trailer for ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' was first released, some viewers complained that the parachute jump seen at the beginning was unrealistic, and that spending that much time free-falling without deploying their parachute was a death sentence. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachuting HALO (High Altitude-Low opening) jumps]] are very real.
*** Some critics think that Dr. Serizawa's characterization of Godzilla as the maintainer of nature's balance brings in a goofy mystical aspect to a film that otherwise strives to be as plausible as possible for a {{Kaiju}} film. But this fits very well with the real life biological and ecological concept of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_species keystone species]], where a particular species, frequently some kind of alpha predator (i.e. like Godzilla), has a disproportionate influence on an environment compared to how abundant it is. If such a keystone species were to disappear, its ecosystem would end up collapsing on itself due to the imbalance. The ''way'' Serizawa words it is rather grandiose, but the underlying notion isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. [[note]] See this video for a RealLife example of how having reintroduced wolves to Yellowstone National Park has made trees healthier and even changed the course of rivers.: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysa5OBhXz-Q Youtube link]][[/note]]
*** Better still, the American Alligator, which has a similar appearence to Godzilla, is a wonderful example a Keystone Species.
* Another one for Creator/ReneeZellweger. Creator/HughGrant only heard her speak in her British accent while filming the first ''Literature/BridgetJones'' movie. Then at the wrap party, he said he initially wondered why she was doing a rather strange American accent all the time.
* In the DVDCommentary for ''Film/ManOnFire'', director Creator/TonyScott mentions that when the climactic scene was being filmed in front of a volcano outside Mexico, the volcano actually erupted. However, the eruption looked phony and like it was from a "Disney movie" and was not included in the finished film.
* In the DVD commentary of ''Film/ShanghaiNoon'', director Tom Dey mentions one review praised the film for using CGI only with creating the Forbidden City in China, even though they actually shot on location at the Forbidden City.
* For ''Film/BigEyes'', Director Creator/TimBurton has said that some of the outlandish elements of the real story (like Walter cross-examining himself) had to be played down or cut so that the film would be believable.
* A few people who reviewed ''Film/TheFaultInOurStars'' suggested that it was Hollywood-ized to some degree due to [[spoiler:Augustus]]'s chemo not resulting in any hair loss, but the writers did their research and the type of chemo that character would be on in their situation wouldn't result in any hair loss.
* In 2001, a UK-Russian co-production film about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches Night Witches]] was to be made but ultimately failed to get backing from an American studio. This was not because of the perceived lack of audience interest in a German-Soviet based film since [[Film/EnemyAtTheGates Enemy At The Gates]] had proved relatively successful that year, but because the studios at the time had made twenty-five very big World War II films, none of which had mentioned the Soviet participation in the war. The studios deemed it difficult to sell the fact to the American public that the first people to stop the advancing Germans was actually "a small bunch of Russian teenager girl pilots," per email correspondence with Frixos Constantine, the producer of the project at the time.
* Disney got accused of digitally altering Cinderella's waist for ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}''. [[http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-cinderella-lily-james-digitally-altered-waist-20150302-story.html According to Lily James]] it was a combination of her wearing a corset, the voluminous skirt making the waist seem small by comparison, and her waist being naturally small in the first place.
* ''Film/DinosaurIsland2014'' has feathered dinosaurs that make bird noises and in some cases are more docile than one might expect. Clearly the filmmakers had ShownTheirWork, but the result is dinosaurs that look and act utterly unlike what most people are used to.
* Many people complained that Aurora's actress in ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' looked too young to play Aurora, when in fact she was the same age as Aurora's character in ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty''. People are so used to DawsonCasting, and Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon is known for [[ArtisticAge having mature looking teenagers]], thus an actual teenager looks too young for the role.
* One of the criticisms of ''Film/BlackMass'' by people who knew the real life Steve Flemmi was that the movie Flemmi was portrayed as far more conflicted about his role in the Winter Hill Gang than he actually was, but the movie's producers feared that portraying him accurately would fall victim to this trope and come off as cartoonishly evil.
* During the production if the 1959 film ''Timbuktu,'' director Creator/JacquesTourneur at first went to film in the actual town of Timbuktu, but decided the middle of an actual desert wasn't sufficiently hot and miserable for the tone of the movie. [[CaliforniaDoubling He filmed it in Utah.]]
* ''Film/NightAtTheMuseum'' features Rami Malek playing an Egyptian Pharaoh. Naturally, like a lot of films have (due to [[SmallReferencePools not enough actors being available]]), it was assumed by some people that this was a case of whitewashing. Actually, Rami Malek ''is'' Egyptian - the Ancient Egyptians looked very much like ethnic Egyptians do today, thanks to interbreeding with Hyksos, Greek, Nubians....
** ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}} (2017)'' had the same problem, as many people complained that Creator/SofiaBoutella is too white to play an egyptian. In truth, like Rami Malek, Boutella[[note]]Who was born in Algeria, a country situated near Egypt.[[/note]] looks very similar to the Ancient Egyptians.
* ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic'':
** Critics sneered at the play because of its laughably improbable premise: a member of the Austrian military aristocracy who was opposed to Hitler. In fact, this was one of the few aspects of the Von Trapp story that was firmly grounded in reality.
** Some people have also complained that Georg von Trapp could not have been a Navy Captain, because Austria is a land-locked country and shouldn't even have a Navy. In fact Austria (or rather, Austria-Hungary) ''did'' have a Navy up until the end of WWI, which is when the real-life Captain von Trapp served.
* ''Film/{{Tombstone}}'' has one particularly egregious and implausible scene, where Wyatt Earp walks through a hail of gunfire by the Cowboys and [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy picks them off without receiving so much as a scratch in return]]...except that's ''exactly'' the way the Shootout at Iron Springs went down in real life, and is actually one of the ''most'' historically accurate scenes in the whole film. His general PlotArmor is about as accurate; Wyatt was ''never'' injured by a bullet in his lifetime, despite the amount of shootouts he participated in.
* ''Film/HacksawRidge'': Mel Gibson decided not to include some of the more unbelievable aspects to the story of Desmond Doss's time as a medic.
** While lowering men down the ridge, a Japanese soldier had Doss in his sights several times, and every time he did, his gun jammed, preventing him from shooting him. This was also omitted amidst fears of unbelievability.
** In reality, Doss' Bible went missing as he dragged himself to safety. Months after he was shipped home, he found it in the mail; his entire company, who once mocked him for his convictions, searched up and down Hacksaw until they found it.
** [[spoiler:After being injured and taken off the battlefield, Doss actually rolled off the stretcher when he noticed a man more injured than him and demanded they take him instead. While they were gone, he was shot by a sniper, shattering his left arm, and he crawled 300 yards by himself in the hellfire of battle to safety.]] This was omitted because Gibson feared that nobody would believe that had happened.
* When Creator/MargotRobbie received the script for ''Film/ITonya'', she thought screenwriter Steven Rogers showed a lot of creativity in coming up with such colorful characters and such an unusual plot. The movie is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonya_Harding#Attack_on_Nancy_Kerrigan_and_aftermath based on a true story]], to the point of the interview scenes being verbatim recreations of actual interviews with the people involved. To be fair, Robbie was four years old and in another country when the incident occurred. And even people familiar with the event were generally unaware of how incredibly weird the details, backstory and personalities involved were.
* As most people in the United States are familiar only with Margot Robbie's roles playing American characters (Tonya Harding and Harley Quinn are probably what she's best known for), some people were surprised to learn she was Australian and even thought that she didn't "sound Australian." To people more used to a broader Aussie accent (such as [[Creator/HughJackman Hugh Jackman's]]) or exaggerated caricatures of the "G'day mate, throw another shrimp on the barbie" variety, Robbie's genuine Australian accent sounds more British than Australian.
* Creator/DanSavage urges parents to talk to their children about having realistic expectations around sex, because most kids are learning about it from porn, and "pornography is to sex as an action movie is to Tuesday." Porn is scripted, posed, and recorded based on what looks good on camera rather than what feels good for the average human body (not that there are a lot of average human bodies in most porn either).
* For the ''Film/KimPossible'' Disney Channel Original Movie, many complain that the actress is "too young" to play Kim. She's actually seventeen. Kim in the [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible cartoon]] just looked mature for her age.
* With ''Film/{{Twister}}'', the film attracted critics for the number of tornadoes to appear in such a short time frame. While that ''is'' unusual, the current record for number of tornadoes in a single 24 hour period is ''206''. Before the film came out, the record at the time was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Super_Outbreak 148 in 1974]]. While a large amount of tornadoes at once ''is'' unusual, storms that spawn multiple tornadoes aren't exactly uncommon either.
* At the end of ''Film/PokemonDetectivePikachu'', Harry Goodman is eventually revealed to be played by [[spoiler:Creator/RyanReynolds]]. Quite a few people said he appears to be too young to be the father of main character Tim, played by Creator/JusticeSmith. Reynolds and Smith are 19 years apart in age. So while Harry would have been a ''young'' father, it's not at all unrealistic.
* In movie ''Film/It2017 '', Pennywise's costume change got a lot of flak from some fans who felt he looked too gothic and scary. Ironically, his appearance is very on par with how a lot of clowns really did dress back in the 50's and 60's. Comparing him to the clowns he was said to look like in the book and you will find this Pennywise bears a little more resemblance than the Tim Curry outfit. However, it still works in the "boomerang" sense as it makes Pennywise look like it's been doing this successfully for a very long time.
* The conservative commentator Debbie Schlussel, in her review of the film ''Film/ThreeHundredRiseOfAnEmpire'', mocked Artemisia's character, played by Creator/EvaGreen, saying it was a case of [[PoliticalCorrectnessIsEvil "ridiculous feminist propaganda"]]. However, despite the fact that the film can not boast in any case of historical accuracy, Artemisia of Caria was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_I_of_Caria real person]] who led a contingent of ships in Xerxes' invasion.
* ''Film/ZeusAndRoxanne'': Roxanne punching a shark in the teeth. It can happen, and yet it looks so silly, WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic committed one of his major fuckups by calling it unrealistic in his review of the film only to get called out on his assertion by Douchey [=McNitpick=].
* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' was reportedly conceived as a very authentic cold-war drama. It turned out that many of the details of nuclear protocol were so absurd that no one could possibly have taken them seriously, so Kubrick changed the genre to a very dark comedy.
* In a scene from ''Film/TheLastCircus'', a political figure later identified as 'Luis Carrero Blanco' by a TV broadcast is blown up in his own car, which goes up into the air and over a five-story building, all done with some [[SpecialEffectsFailure not-so-good CGI]]. Just another over the top thing from a movie about [[MonsterClown crazy killer clowns]], right? Nope. Luis Carrero Blanco was a real Prime Minister and he died exactly like that in real life, the codename of the attack was "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Luis_Carrero_Blanco Operación Ogro]]" and the blast of the explosion really sent Blanco's car 66 feet into the air.
* A recurring criticism of ''Film/TallGirl'' is how the main character is mocked for, well, being taller than most girls her age, when that seems like a minor issue at best. Lead actress Ava Michelle was actually [[https://one-time-i-dreamt.tumblr.com/post/634761593325027328 bullied repeatedly]] on ''Series/DanceMoms'' for exactly that.
* The ''Franchise/PrinceOfPersia'' VideoGame series and [[Film/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime the movie adaptation]] gets a lot of flak for making the Prince [[MightyWhitey "too white"]], due to Western audiences expecting [[PhenotypeStereotype everyone who lives in the Middle East]] to be brown as can be and not even vaguely similar to the rest of the world. This is probably because a perception exists in the West that all Middle Easterners are Arabs, which is a bit like Americans expecting all Europeans to be English; another factor may be a backlash against the tendency in the past to cast Anglo-American actors as ''all'' races of people except for the very darkest ones, even if they couldn't pull off the fakery even with [[{{Brownface}} makeup]]. In truth, the Persian people were close relatives of the Europeans, and the majority of modern Iran's population could be considered "white". And most people there identify as white. [[http://web.archive.org/web/20111204110130/http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/12/4/128728998449020593.jpg Compare Iranian prime minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Jake Gyllenhaal]]. The name "Iran" also derives from the same etymology as "Aryan". Suffice it to say, there is and always has been actually a fair amount of variation in Iran, with many lighter-skinned "white" people on the one hand, many others with darker skin, and even a few who look more Central Asian than anything else (particularly in the far northeast, which, um, actually ''is'' Central Asian, more or less). Also, [[http://kotaku.com/5547892/is-prince-of-persia-really-a-racial-whitewash read Kotaku's article.]] Strangely, you don't hear people complaining very often about Bible stories being cast with fair-skinned actors (whose characters, of course, are also Middle Eastern, and usually Semites, and thus even ''less'' white than Persians/Iranians) - but then, the great majority of Persian/Iranian people are not and never have been Christians, and "Christian" equals "white" for some reason.
* The CGI artists had problems with the giant tarantula in the horror comedy flick ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks''. Scaling it up realistically turned it into an adorable fuzzy thing reminiscent of a high-quality stuffed animal. They had to remove more than half its hairs before the terrifying monster-truck-sized spider was noticeable beneath.
* ''Film/TorchSongTrilogy'': To people who know about how LGBTQ+ people tended to be treated by social services agencies in the US before the last decade or so (and still today too often), it could be surprising that Arnold and Ed could adopt a gay teenage foster child in 1980. As it turns out, [[https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-untold-story-of-queer-foster-families that was actually a thing]] — as early as the 1970s, sympathetic social workers were discreetly placing LGBTQ+ teens, especially ones who had already been through homo/transphobic placements, with same-sex couples who would understand and support them.
* ''Film/TheTrialOfTheChicago7'' seems almost like a parody of the American trial system, with a blatantly biased HangingJudge who insists at every possibility that he is absolutely neutral, questionable trial practices that should have gotten evertything that happened thrown out and lawyers who engage in wall-to-wall CourtroomAntics... except all of these things are matters of historic record, and the levels of both racist bias from the judge and antics from the defense attorneys are severely toned down.
* ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''
** The volcano set is so immense it looks like it was all done with miniatures--but as the documentary featurette reveals, ''they actually built the whole huge set'' and flew real helicopters into it.
** The "rocket guns" actually were in development in the 60s and called Gyrojets. They didn't catch on due to their lower muzzle velocity and accuracy compared to conventional firearms.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
** The film used real Chinese characters for the posters and messages in its universe, as well as the opening, and actually had an expert in ancient Chinese calligraphy as part of the staff. ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' used a made-up sqiggle language because Shyamalan thought ''actual Chinese'' didn't look Asian enough.[[note]]It should be noted many fans believe the real reason for downplaying the Asian elements was to justify the controversial original casting - at first all the chosen actors were white, including Jesse Mccartney as Prince Zuko.[[/note]]
** In a similar vein Shyamalan also had the characters' names pronounced "properly", so that "Aang" (rhymes with bang) became "AAH-ng", "Sokka" (SOCK-ah) became "SOE-kah", "Iroh" (AYE-roe) became "EE-roe" etc. Detractors complained that the names were pronounced wrong, even though the Shyamalan pronunciations match their etymology - Sokka was named after the Japanese phrase ''sou ka?'' meaning "Is that so?", for example, so there is valid justification for going with the alternate pronunciation. The issue is that said etymology is based on the ''Chinese and Japanese'' languages which meant that the altered pronunciations should've been reserved for the Chinese and Japanese dubs. Placing them in the ''English dub'' was still the wrong move as the original pronunciations were clearly meant for an English-hearing audience.

* ''WebVideo/CinemaSins'' claimed Galvatron falling into Unicron's mouth in ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie'' was a mistake, since there's "no gravity in space". Actually, Unicron is explicitly stated to be the size of a planet, meaning he would have the same gravity as a planet and thus anything near by would fall towards him.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'': Invoked in-universe by Linguini when he defends Rémy, and explains that the rat is the real cook while he has no actual talent. As he points out, "I know it sounds insane, but, well the truth sounds insane sometimes!" Sadly, it just wasn't enough.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the streetcars in the movie show the driver holding a steering wheel. Streetcars run on rails and cannot turn freely like a bus. Given that the other details of the streetcars are portrayed as realistically as possible, the presence of steering wheels in this case is probably because having buttons instead (as is actually the case for streetcars) would look out of place for a vehicle on the road that seems more similar to a bus than a train.

** Some people have also complained that Georg von Trapp could not have been a Navy Captain, because Austria is a land-locked country and shouldn't even have a Navy. In fact Austria (or rather, Austria-Hungary) ''did'' have a Navy up until the end of WWI, which is when Captain von Trapp served.

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' was harshly criticized for a scene in which [[spoiler: General Leia]] survives after being blown out into space, by using the Force to return to the spaceship, seeming to suffer no lasting harm from it. NASA tests on rapid decompression to vacuum in the 1960s, however, had a ''100% survival and full recovery'' for up to two minutes of exposure once the subjects were repressurized, and [[spoiler: Leia]] was only out there for about one minute fifty seconds.

* One example from the filming of the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'': Two railroad employees' testimonies of seeing smoke behind the grassy knoll fence on November 22, 1963 is used by Oliver Stone as indisputable proof that there was a second gunman present to help [[WhoShotJFK kill President Kennedy]]. Problem was, during filming of a flashback, [[http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100smoke.html none of the rifles they used emitted any visible smoke]]. The special effects team had to be brought in with a smoke machine to complete the illusion (as it turns out, modern gunpowder is called "smokeless" for a reason).

* One example from the filming of the movie ''Film/{{JFK}}'': Two railroad employees' testimonies of seeing smoke behind the grassy knoll fence on November 22, 1963 is used by Oliver Stone as indisputable proof that there was a second gunman present to help [[WhoShotJFK kill President Kennedy]]. Problem was, during filming of a flashback, [[http://www.jfk-online.com/jfk100smoke.html none of the rifles they used emitted any visible smoke]]. The special effects team had to be brought in with a smoke machine to complete the illusion.

* In 2001, a UK-Russian co-production film about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches Night Witches]] was to be made but ultimately failed to get backing from an American studio. This was not because of the perceived lack of audience interest in a German-Soviet based film since [[Film/EnemyAtTheGates Enemy At The Gates]] had proved relatively successful that year, but because the studios at the time had made twenty-five very big World War II films, none of which had mentioned the Soviet participation in the war. The studios deemed it [[RealityIsUnrealistic difficult to sell]] the fact to the American public that the first people to stop the advancing Germans was actually "a small bunch of Russian teenager girl pilots," per email correspondence with Frixos Constantine, the producer of the project at the time.

** ''Film/{{The Mummy|2017}} (2017)'' had the same problem, as many people complained that Creator/SofiaBoutella is too white to play an egyptian. In truth, like Rami Malek, Boutella[[note]]Who was born in Argelia, a country situated near Egypt.[[/note]] looks very similar to the Ancient Egyptians.

* A number of fans complained about Creator/JesseEisenberg being cast as ComicBook/LexLuthor in ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', with many complaining that he was "too young" and accusing WB of trying to make Luthor YoungerAndHipper. In reality, [[OlderThanTheyLook Eisenberg was 30 years old when cast]], the same age as Creator/HenryCavill.