As the title says. Quarantine movie night, I'm looking for this film.
Key points in the film is when the man meets his wife. He uses a breakthrough statistical equation in a bar setting to ensure he and his guy friends all have a chance to get a woman at the end of the night. Another scene is when he almost drowns his infant son on accident by leaving him in the bathtub.
We watched this film in math class years ago due to the man's significance. He was an actual professor at Harvard? Or Yale?
The actor was a Robin Williams-type, but this movie isn't a comedy.
"Sully" is a good example. It portrayed the people investigating the plane crash as bad guys out to get Sully despite his heroism even though (according to everyone involved) the actual investigation was purely routine and they commended him on his quick-thinking. The real Sully actually asked for the NTSB characters to have their names changed for this exact reason. When two engines fail at the same time and a guy is forced to land his plane on the Hudson river, it would be weird if they didn't try and figure out what happened.
Similarly, October Sky made Homer Hickham's dad out as some old country guy who didn't want his son to pursue science even though the real guy was very supportive of Homer. But again, I guess the writers thought that someone can't just achieve something for the sake of it, there has to be a person trying to stop them for it to mean anything.
I think Wonder Woman missed a huge opportunity to subvert this. When I first saw it, I really thought the film was building up to there being no bad guy but rather Diana realizing that World War I was caused by humanity's own faults. I expected her to find out that Ares died centuries ago and had nothing to do with what was going on. I was going to give the film major props for being a superhero/comic film with that level of moral ambiguity but then at the last second they decided that no, Ares was real and he did manipulate humanity into going to war. They tried to spin it as it still being humanity's fault and that he just nudged them in the right direction but I would have really preferred that he just not been in the equation at all. I still enjoyed the film but that changed it from being a great movie in my eyes to just being a pretty good one.
I can't think of how many movies I've seen that are allegedly based on real events only to find out that the events were exaggerated, or rearranged, or certain characters were rewritten or written out entirely. And sometimes, it really is only that: "Based." Occasionally you get a story that has nothing to do with whatever real-life event it purports to represent. As a student of history and the truth, this grinds my gears a great deal.
What film would you say is the most egregious offender?
Hi,
I've recently found a love for the type of film I've tried to explain in the title. I've recently watched the below and would like another of the type if anyone can recommend! Kind of like where the movie re-enacts real life events?
- Darkest Hour
- The Imitation Game
- The Social Network
- Sully
- The theory of everything
- The King's Speech
Thanks in advance!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zjmxu2HzcU
SINGH is a film based on a true incident that occurred in May of 2007, when Gurinder Singh Khalsa (a Sikh man who wears a turban) was not allowed to board an American airline without the removal of his turban to be further inspected by TSA agents. In this emotional rollercoaster of a short film, Gurinder is made to choose between his religious beliefs, and his flight to go visit his dying mother in her last days.
Personally for me it depends. I am usually of the mind that it doesn't matter, as long as I enjoy the movie. Unless it's something like Patch Adams where they went as far as to change one of the real life people in his life for a woman just so Robin Williams could have a romantic lead. Stuff like that does bother me.
Mine are: Veronica Guerin, sleepers, and casino
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