History vs Hollywood Final

Hollywood loves to depict history in such entertainment. Sometimes the films that are based on true stories fumble over the truth. For instance, American Sniper, Unbroken, The Theory of Everything, The Butler, Bessie, Fruitvalle Station and much more are all films supposively based on true stories. However, Hollywood loves to add a little fiction here and there every now-and-again.

I actually think there's nothing wrong with adding some kind of twist in the mix. But, if a film is based on a true story, it's only right that everything is true. I look at an awesome movie such as, American Sniper, which is about a sniper who takes his sole mission as a SEAL and becomes one of the most lethal snipers in American history. But it'll always be a thought dangling in my head asking, "does this Clint Eastwood film take aim at the truth?" It's almost as if we'd never know.

Unbroken is about a boy named, Louis Zamperini, who turns his life around, channeling his energy into running, and later qualifying for the 1936 Olympics. Having WW ll break out, Louie enlists in the military. After his plane crashes in the Pacific, he survives an incredible 47 days adrift in a raft, until his capture by the Japanese navy. And as amazing as this movie may be, it'll always be a thought prancing around in my head asking, "does the truth remain unbroken in this story of the Olympian and WW ll hero?"

The film The Butler, was inspired by Eugene Allen who is a butler who served every president from Truman to Reagan and weathered the worst of the country's brutal racial history was about to see the first black president of the United States sworn into office. Allen was a black man unknown to the headlines. Now, however, Allen's story is playing out on the screen in an Oscar-baiting film with a sprawling cast. In The Butler, Forest Whitaker's Cecil Gaines is a slightly factionalized version of Allen, one whose story-through very close to Allen's own- plays better as the stylistic, sweeping melodrama the film sets out to be.The Butler, with its Forrest Gump-like ambition to touch on every significant moment and movement  in the country's 20th century racial history.

Speaking of Forrest Gump, such an amazing film. Hollywood really did a great job using technology to add extra things to history, like making it seem like Tom Hanks was actually in the actual events of the historical times. The actual events were real, but Hollywood created a fiction by adding Tom in there somehow. I think Hollywood creates entertainment for the films so that it wouldn't be boring or too educational. To me, I see nothing wrong with that, however, if a film is based on a true story, it's only right that everything is true.