Movies capturing a certain time or event try to be as close to the truth as possible. Sometimes, however, the truth is too wild to believe. Check out these 10 films that changed certain facts so that audiences could actually believe them.
Gladiator (2000)
The way the film depicts gladiators isn’t 100% historically accurate. Gladiators were more like celebrities and few of their owners or patrons wanted them to die in the arena. It’d be a financial failure. It wasn’t typical for gladiators to die in the arena. However, political prisoners weren’t spared from their fates.
Apollo 13 (1995)
The incident of Apollo 13 was captured through video and audio records. As such, the film, which relied heavily on those records, is quite accurate. The main difference is how the crew reacted. In the movie, the astronauts panic and sound frightened. In reality, the astronauts were very calm and collected as they had received training for these sorts of situations. But that would have been boring to watch.
Titanic (1997)
While James Cameron did an amazing job of being historically accurate where he could, there are a few details he missed. One involves the gym. When the Titanic was sinking, there were still some people working out in the gym. A lot of people didn’t start panicking until it was too late.
1776 (1972)
History and musicals go hand-in-hand and such is the case with this film. While most of the film is historically accurate, there is one historical line that John Adams says to Benjamin Franklin that was left out. Adams warns Franklin that if they remove the clause about slavery, then they’ll be fighting about the issue 100 years later.
The Civil War would later begin nearly 100 years after his statement. The director left the statement out because he felt the audience would think it was based on modern hindsight.
Cloverfield (2008)
Cloverfield is one of the many movies that have a problem depicting the Statue of Liberty accurately. Most people don’t realize how small the statue actually is. Movies have to increase its size, particularly its head, to perform the type of shots that they want.
Room (2015)
Room is a story based on a real-life case except certain details were either changed or left out to make it more believable to audiences. In the film, a young woman ends up kidnapped and sexually enslaved. She ends up giving birth to a boy.
In the real case, the woman is actually kidnapped by her own father. She ends up having seven children by him.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Many of the events that occurred while Stalin reigned are really too wild to be believed. That’s why this film does its best to show aspects that are credible. One of the instances they had to change was when the Russian army looked for a conductor to perform for Stalin in the middle of the night.
The first conductor ended up fainting, as shown in the film, so the Russian soldiers found a second. Except, in reality, this second conductor was so nervous he ended up getting drunk past the point of being able to perform. A third conductor had to be found.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
There was one remarkable moment in Doss’s life that the director didn’t include because he didn’t believe anyone would think it actually happened. In the film, Doss ends up on a stretcher and is taken away following an injury.
In reality, Doss lets another wounded soldier take the stretcher instead of him. He ends up getting his arm fractured from a bullet, then crawls 300 yards to safety.
Valkyrie (2008)
When a group of German soldiers decide to take down Hitler themselves, it’s easy for things to seem far-fetched. However, this true story was pretty accurate with its details save for one instance.
When Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg ends up injured, in real life, he is asked to be given morphine. He refused because he didn’t want to become addicted to it. The director worried that audiences might think that Stauffenberg was trying to be a tough guy, and so he left it out entirely.
Big Eyes (2014)
Big Eyes is about the legal problems a wife ends up having with her husband who passes her artwork off as his own. The director and writers had to actually tone down Walter Keane, the husband, because of his antics in court.
He actually chose to defend himself and would physically go to the podium to ask himself questions, then go to the witness stand to answer them. Some things you just can’t believe actually did happen.
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