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20 Movies That Fudged The Truth

We all know that Hollywood fudges some facts to make for a more entertaining movie. Shucks, one of the greatest movies from two of the greatest directors of all time—the Coen Brothers' Fargo—opens with a disclaimer that “this is a true story…at the request of the survivors, the names have been changed.” But that was baloney, Ol' Joel ‘n’ Ethan just thought it was a cool and ominous way to open a crime movie set in extremely cold and ominous permafrost that is…North Dakota? Wisconsin? Not Canada. We know it's not Canada. The place where Fargo is. Oh no, “The Place Where Fargo Is” sounds like a haunting fairy tale—another kind of classic storytelling device that stretches the truth.  

 

Movies lie, is what we're saying. And that's fine! It's usually in service of story structure or building dramatic tension over the course of 90-120 minutes. But it turns out some of those things they neglect to mention end up being pretty unfortunate when reapplied to the movie:

 

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The most poignant scene in Rudy stretches the truth. ISY OND Art STERE MATES 7 MACK OORDA 21 3? 2 BALE PC 84 2 2 Joe Montana says no one chanted Rud

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THE UNTOUCHABLES Eliot Ness throws Frank Nitti offthe roofofthe courthouse. Actually, Frank Nitti was Al Capone's successor and one ofthe main leaders

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CRACKED.COM RememberAmadeus, the movie wherentonio Salieri is so insanely jealous of Mozart' that he disguises himself and commissions Mozart to write

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Shawshanks sewer would only spew if sewage pressure was higher than air pressure. Which is negated by it being connected. tO open air.

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M * A* S*H TOOK PLACE DURING THE KOREAN WAR, WHICH LASTED FROM 1950-1953.* THIS IS SAENGER5S #60 PUBLISHED ON ANLARY 1OTH... ...1969. THE SHOW ALSO RA

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According to the movie Braveheart, William Wallace had affair with an Princess lsabella, resulting in her being pregnant with Wallace's child. William

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The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square roOt of the remaining side WRONG THE SCARECROW TRIED TO

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Hey Captain Smith, On April 14, the Titanic I think you're heading was traveling due west. the wrong way! This sunset should have been directly in fro

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Shanghai Knights was set in 1887. By the end of the movie we learn that the mischieyous young street urchin was none other than Charlie Chaplin.... ..

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Entry by Josh Daws

In Gangs of New York, Leonardo Dicaprio's character speaks the Prayer to St. Michael, demonstrating his impressive devotion to Catholicism... What's

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In the movie Kate and Leopold, Leopold is transported to the present day from the year 1876. RDUtr LA In the movie he chastises someone for not knowin

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In The Untouchables, the judge switched the jury for Al Capone's trial when Eliot Ness threatened to reveal that his name was in the ledger, proving t

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CRACKEDCO COM HNK In one of the best scenes in X-Men: Days of Future Past; there's an itsy bitsy teenie weenie colorful anachronism on Quicksilver's s

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CRACKEDCO CONT Although Sherlock claims to practice the Science of Deduction he has only ever been shown to use abductive reasoning which is almost

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VOLTS 55 45 65 30 This is the speedometer 35 75 used in Back to the Future 20 25: 85 10 TEMP L 15 95 0 MPH YOLTS This is the actual speedometer 45 35

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