#81: What is the worst movie portrayal of true events?
Another last minute entry stole the show in our previous fight. This week let’s turn our eyes to history and discuss how often Hollywood gets it wrong:
What is the worst movie portrayal of true events?
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Shakespeare In Love. They completely fabricated a love story as the inspiration for Romeo and Juliet. Also, they gave it the Oscar for Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan, which was a nearly criminal act by itself.
I'm sure there are worse ones out there that I (thankfully) haven't seen, but I couldn't stand The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, supposedly a biography about Gladys Award, the missionary to China. First, they took God out the entire picture almost, maybe mentioning Him or anything related to Christianity a couple of times (as I've noticed Christian movies sometimes tend to do). What made me so mad, though, was that they invented an entire love story that never, NEVER happened (Gladys Award herself was devastated to hear about it) and made the movie all about that instead.
I feel better now. I've been waiting to publicly trash on that for a while 😅