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Amazing movies that are terrible biographies

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Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 1:45 pm
A Beautiful Mind about the mathematician John Nash. But I'm not the one making the charge of historic inaccuracy. A friend of ours was in the same Princeton class as Mr Nash. His wife says that all throughout the movie he kept insisting "it wasn't like that" to the annoyance of all around them.

On the one hand, obviously some poetic license is necessary when trying to convey his struggles with psychotic breaks while still pulling off mathematical conquests. But on the other, I'm pretty annoyed by most of Hollywood's attempts to portray psychosis. I found it objectionable on that basis alone.
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July 13, 2017 at 1:49 pm
The entire series The Tudors.

But it was still fun, and it did get me checking various details on Wiki, and that was fun too.


And I'd better put The Borgias here too . . . .
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RE: Amazing movies that are terrible biographies
July 13, 2017 at 1:50 pm (This post was last modified: July 13, 2017 at 1:51 pm by Shell B.)
Yeah, people do say "A Beautiful Mind" wasn't entirely accurate. Most movies about mental illness miss the mark. In trying to make it uplifting or less horrific than it really is, they add romantic touches, like the gorgeous girl with anorexia or the genius whose wife saves him from psychosis or the person with OCD who's just so quirky.
(July 13, 2017 at 1:49 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: The entire series The Tudors.

But it was still fun, and it did get me checking various details on Wiki, and that was fun too.


And I'd better put The Borgias here too . . . .

I meant to watch both of those. Which is the one that has the guy who played Rob Stark? I think it was one of those. I could be wrong, though.
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July 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm
I'm drawing a blank on Rob Stark . . .
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July 13, 2017 at 2:11 pm
Hmm, maybe it was another show. Reign? There's so many of them these days.
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July 13, 2017 at 2:20 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 2:02 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm drawing a blank on Rob Stark . . .


Blasphemer! You claim to be an atheist and yet know not Rob Stark. Do you not read? I'm sorry, but I am going to have to report you. In fact, you're a mod, I'll report you to you. Please flog yourself immediately.
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July 13, 2017 at 2:23 pm
Wait! I thought he meant he drew a blank because he didn't see Rob Stark in the show. Oh, boy. He's going to have to start watching GoT immediately.
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July 13, 2017 at 2:24 pm
(July 13, 2017 at 2:23 pm)Shell B Wrote: Wait! I thought he meant he drew a blank because he didn't see Rob Stark in the show. Oh, boy. He's going to have to start watching GoT immediately.


Definitely.  But do we really have let him off that easy?  (I think he would enjoy the self-flagellation.)
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July 13, 2017 at 2:28 pm
Stark is neither an actor in either series nor a historical person portrayed in either series.

That is ALL you can draw from my remark.
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July 13, 2017 at 2:30 pm
But, but he's the guy who PLAYED Rob Stark. I don't know his real-life name. You'd probably know him as beardy sex boy.
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