Seeing that only two months are left in 19 years, there is no news about "Leonardo da Vinci" starring Xiao Lizi. This film is adapted from the work of the same name by the famous biographer Walter Isaacson. (Isaacson wrote about Einstein, Franklin, Jobs...) Coincidentally, Xiao Li’s name comes from Leonardo da Vinci:
was at the exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci’s work, the unborn child The plum kicked her mother's belly for the first time, so her mother named the little plum Leonardo. It's a bit destined, and this may be the only way to make Xiaoli lose weight.
biographical movies have always been a favorite of Hollywood and Oscars. According to statistics, from 2000 to 2013, with the exception of 2004 and 2008, there was at least one biographical nomination for the best Oscars every year, of which three out of the five nominations in 2005 were biopics, and four out of ten nominations in 2011 It's a biopic.
biopic + Xiao Lizi + the original work of a famous author, it is no wonder that Paramount spent seven figures in order to win the distribution rights of "Leonardo da Vinci".
has always been those who have left a mark in history to provide film creators with a wealth of material and even support a film genre. The relationship between biographical films and historical facts is very delicate. Although the former is not responsible for the latter, the compilation of a biographical film cannot contribute too much. This scale is difficult to grasp, and it is difficult to evaluate what audiences and historians will be offended.
Regardless of whether a biographical film compresses events, rearranges the era, or creates synthetic characters to simplify the storyline, one thing is important: what is not mentioned in a biographical film is as important as what is told in the film.
Let’s take a look at the difference between 12 biographical films and real characters: the journey of cracking down on fakes is about to begin......
1. The most hacked in history
"The Biography of Mozart" revolves around two composers in Vienna in the 18th century: Antonio Sa Leary is excellent but lacks talent, Mozart's proper musical genius, the music industry version "Ji Sheng Yu He Sheng Liang". Salieri was jealous of Mozart and always felt that Mozart was humiliating him everywhere. Mozart was a tool sent by God to laugh at him. But in fact, his admiration and appreciation of Mozart exceeds anyone. Unlike the biopics that keep accounts, this film does not directly talk about Mozart, but uses Salieri's mouth to tell about Mozart's short but dazzling life.
Although the film is hailed as an outstanding study of genius and mediocrity, its central story has no factual basis: Salieri is not behind Mozart. Although Salieri is a composer comparable to Mozart's achievements, and there have been rumors of rivalry between the two, historical records indicate that they may be collaborators. The film's description of Salieri is not helpful in understanding historical figures.
In the movie, Salieri is completely portrayed as a jealous and crazy "little man", who is skilled in calculations, indifferent and ruthless, and makes trouble for Mozart everywhere. Although the rumors of Salieri killing Mozart have been around for a long time, "Mozart" has expanded the influence of this false news. Salieri is remembered because of something he hasn't done before-murdering the musical genius Mozart. This may be the worst time Salieri was hacked.
In order to highlight Salieri’s hypocrisy and greed, the director also portrayed Salieri as a sweet tooth, met Mozart when he ate chocolate, and taught students to eat snacks when playing the piano... In his later years he locked himself in the house. , Only the cream-filled snack can make him open the door.
The real Salieri is completely the protagonist of the inspirational story. He left home to study music at the age of 15 and wrote his first opera at the age of 19. At the age of 63, he was responsible for the performance of imitating gunfire in the opera of the student Beethoven. At the age of 65, he began to modify himself. In his previous works, he created more than 40 operas in his lifetime and worked for the Austrian royal family for more than half a century. In his later years, he sent away his wife and son one after another.
Although the screenwriter of "Mozart" Peter Schaefer once said: "Never planned to turn this film into a documentary biography", the success of "Mozart" brought a lot of "trouble" to Salieri.
2. This "Jobs" is not "Jobs"
Some people's life is not made into a movie, you will feel a pity, such as Jobs. Many people watchAfter 15 years of filming "Steve Jobs" by Danny Boyle, Far Shark and Fei Wen contributed wonderful performances together. There was also a "Jobs" in 13 years, and its popularity and quality were worse than the former by a whole Jobs.
This movie focuses on Jobs' early career from dropping out of college to becoming the CEO of the world's most profitable company. To be fair, the film did not avoid Jobs's annoying history, such as denying his own daughters. However, the film tends to portray Jobs as a high-level salesperson who is good at sensationalism and exaggerates his role in Apple's development. After watching the movie, Apple's co-founder Woz said: "Bullshit, how could Steve Jobs and I look like this." In the 1956 biopic "The Conqueror", John Wayne played Genghis Khan. This version of Genghis Khan has become the handsome hero of a romantic comedy. The film mainly tells the love story of Temujin and his first wife, Peertie, and hints at the way he consolidates power. Li Jian’s phrase "just because I looked at you more in the crowd" can be used as a summary of this love story:
saw the first glance of Peer’s post, Temujin fell in love with this beautiful woman, but This woman is the bride of his enemy...You and I know the ending of the story. Temujin launched a war to win the return of the beautiful woman, and then fight the world to give it to the beautiful woman.
"The Conqueror" was once the most cursed movie in history. After the filming of this movie, the crew died of cancer. Thirty years later, the truth surfaced: "The Conqueror" crew members died of cancer and died of nuclear radiation at the location. After the filming was completed, producer Hughes bought back all the copies of the film for $12 million. In eighteen years, no one except Hughes has watched "The Conqueror". It is said that Hughes would watch this movie alone in the mansion every day, and tortured him with guilt.
4. Turing: Genius shouldn't be like this
In 2011, Hollywood selected a list of outstanding scripts that have not been filmed, and "Imitation Game" ranked first. Three years later, when the movie was released, many people were moved by Turing's sentence "I can't go to jail, they will take my christopher away, and they will take him again."
"Imitation Game" has several places that are inconsistent with historical facts. For example, the preliminary work done by Polish cryptographers is very important for deciphering Enigma Code; and in the film, Poland only helps Britain obtain cryptographic machines.
However, the biggest bug in the film is Turing's character. The screenwriters have such a creative criterion: People with high IQ must have low EQ and have mental illness similar to obsessive-compulsive disorder. The screenwriter of "The Imitation Game" strictly abides by this rule, and sets Turing as a persecuted homosexual-he does not resist, but silently accepts all this in the corner.
In reality, Turing gets along with his colleagues in a friendly manner. When he meets like-minded people, he will even become a chatterer. "Energetic" is how many people who have dealt with Turing describe him.
In and out of the play, Turing was treated unfairly because of his homosexuality. But in the face of his homosexuality, he was brave and magnanimous. "The brave wields a sharp sword," Turing used Wilde's words to motivate himself. He also resembled this sentence. In the face of the police charges, he not only directly admitted his identity, but also asked a lawyer to defend his innocence. Some commented that: "The movie casts a vigorous and powerful Turing into a mythical gay man, full of complaints and weakness, which is exactly what homophobics like to scold."
5. Adapted from memoirs It is not necessarily reliable.
"Theory of Everything" is a vivid portrayal of Hawking and Jane's marriage. They met at the university. Soon after Hawking was diagnosed with ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), they got married and got married. After that, life beats love + separation or friends.
Although this movie is based on Jane's memoirs, it still does not accurately reflect the complexity of their marriage. Jane made it clear in her memoirs that marrying Hawking and taking care of him meant that she would more or less give up her career. However, Jane does not lose herself for love like in the movie. ""The Theory of Everything" weakened her ambition to a large extent, turning her into a character that exists only for Hawking.
"Theory of Everything" also underestimated the important role of Hawking and Elaine Mason's relationship in the breakdown of the marriage. His marriage to Mason alienated Hawking, Jane and their children. The movie does not touch on the rumors that Mason neglected and abused Hawking.
6. The prison inspirational film is indeed more touching.
It is said that "The Birdman of Alcatez" is Haruki Murakami's favorite movie. Part of "Shawshank's Redemption" pays tribute to the film. Burt Lancaster played Robert Stroud, a prisoner in real life in the film, from youth to old age, a real god acting. The Oscar of the year was not awarded to him by the best actor, making people angry.
But this movie based on real life is more fiction than fact. The movie portrays Stroud as a rebellious hero, challenging the authority and boundaries of the American prison system. Raising, researching and treating birds in the cell gave him comfort. But in real life, Stroud is not the protagonist who is misunderstood in the movie. He often clashed with inmates and guards, including in the movie that he killed a guard with a knife in 1916. After that, he was held in solitary confinement. He turned his personal cell into a laboratory filled with bird droppings and bird innards. After decades of studying birds in his cell, Stroud published a book about canaries.
"The Birdman of Alcatez" tends to beautify Stroud. In fact, he was diagnosed as psychopath.
7. The beautified big liar
, the self-perceived song and dance film "The Circus King" portrays the legendary American circus tycoon Barnum as a master of positive energy transmission. He started from scratch, looking for "strange people and strange things" everywhere, inviting women with beards, 60 cm dwarfs (General Tom Thumb), giants over two meters tall, Siamese twins (Siamese twins)... to join the circus, Fighting for these "freaks" and "deformed people" brings them hope and happiness. In the play, he is also a gifted circus actor.
But the good people filter of the movie is too heavy for Barnumga. In real life, he is more like a shrewd businessman, who knows how to use those "strange things" to attract audiences. To put it mildly, he was a marketing genius in the 19th century; to put it bluntly, he was a big liar.
"The Circus King" did not make such a story: In 1835, Barnum paid a thousand dollars to buy an 80-year-old black female slave who was almost paralyzed. (At that time it was illegal to sell slaves.) He gave her the "161-year-old" "President Washington's childhood nanny" gimmick. In just a week, Barnum made his money back. A year later, the female slave died, but Barnum got the first pot of gold in his life. In 1836, Barnum held a farewell show where the female slave's body was dissected on the spot, and the ticket was 50 cents. It is really difficult for
to evaluate Barnum, because he does provide a way to make a living for these people who are not easy to get job opportunities. However, the infinite beautification like "The Circus King" makes him feel that the creator has "ulterior motives". This kind of film guides the audience to forget the plight of special people in real life. Uncle Wolf who sings and dances can't save "The Circus King."
8. Disney can't give up the princess's love story
The soundtrack of Disney's biographical animation "Pocahontas" is applauding. It tells the romantic love story between the American Indian princess Pocahontas and the British explorer John Smith shortly after the discovery of the New World. Their love transcends the conflict between the Indians and the white colonists. The British occupied the land of Pocahontas, and both tribes regarded each other as barbarians. Although the princess saved Smith when her father killed him, their relationship must end-Smith returned to England, while the princess stayed in her land.
Pocahontas and Smith are real historical figures. In the low-lying areas of Virginia, the relationship between indigenous groups and British colonists was sometimes tense and sometimes cooperative. This young woman, known as Pocahontas (this is just her nickname), eventually came to England with her husband John Rolfe. King James I also received her. Unfortunately, she passed away at the age of 20.
and John Smith eventually returned to England, and in 1Died in 631. The love affair between Pocongati and Smith is basically certain that it did not happen: When Smith arrived in Virginia, Pocongati was about 11 years old, not a teenager. There is no evidence that an affair occurred between them. Although Smith claimed that the princess had saved her from death, scholars still doubted his claim.
9. Wallace's popularization
"Brave Heart" won the box office and Oscar when it was released. But the film’s description of the 13th-century Scottish national hero William Wallace is a bit of a joke. It portrays Wallace as a warrior wearing a Scottish checkered woolen skirt. After the English assaulted and killed his wife, he developed a hatred of the British. Desperate for revenge, he led the Scottish compatriots to revolt against King Edward I of England. In the process, he pursued a princess, was betrayed by the future King of Scotland Robert Bruce, and died at the hands of the British. Although this plot is to make the movie look better, the history it describes is not reliable at all.
Wallace is indeed an important leader in the Scottish resistance to England, but he is more elite than what is shown in the movie: he was born in a Scottish noble family and lived a superior life. Historians agree that he did not fight the British to avenge the bride. Like many Scottish elites, he believed that the British had no right to interfere in Scottish affairs. The princess who had an ambiguous relationship with Wallace in the movie
only appeared in the UK after his death. In addition, before becoming king in 1306, Robert Bruce was a staunch defender of Scotland. He was called "Brave Heart", not Wallace. The film even distorted Wallace's attire. Medieval Scots did not wear kilts.
10. Marriage in reality is more complicated.
Oscar-winning biopic "Beautiful Mind" focuses on the Nobel Prize winner, economist, and mathematician John Nash, who had struggled with schizophrenia. This film keenly describes Nash, with the encouragement and help of his wife Alicia, to the top of his academic career and maintain a fulfilling personal life.
Although the National League for Mental Health praised the film’s presentation of mental illness, the depiction of John Nash’s real life in "A Beautiful Mind" has many inaccuracies. Nash did recover from schizophrenia with the help of his wife, but he was far more complicated than described in the biographical film. Some things are omitted from the film: Nash gave birth to an illegitimate child with a woman he refused to marry. Moreover, according to his biographer, he "smashed his wife to the ground and stomped her neck with his foot" at least once.
Nash's marriage to Alicia is indeed much worse than the film describes-Nash blames his wife on his time in the mental hospital.
11. The dead life of a super-rich second-generation with flying ideals and movie dreams. Movie tycoon and entrepreneur. The film focuses on Hughes’s life from the 1920s to the 1940s. It tells how mental illness has affected the careers of his Hollywood mogul and aviation executive, as well as with actors Catherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. Love affair. Because of obsessive-compulsive disorder and bacterial phobia, he became more and more withdrawn.
Hughes is a remarkable figure in the 20th century: He is an oil heir in Texas, using family money to fund his favorite things, including Hollywood movies and airlines. As the movie shows, Hughes has struggled with obsessive-compulsive disorder all his life. Although this movie is indeed a portrayal of Hughes' mental health problems, it obliterates other aspects of his life. The movie
portrays Hughes as a playboy, but the film plays down his predation of women. Hughes is famous in Hollywood for his mandatory "Hollywood Audition Couch" practice. It is said that he used movie roles as conditions to have relationships with young women. He also punched his former lover Gardner in the face. However, Gardner responded bravely-beat Hughes unconscious with an ashtray.
Regarding Hughes's character, the movie avoids another key question: He is irretrievably stubborn. Gardner recalled: "When I told Hughes that my closest childhood friend Virginia wasWhen he was black, he didn't call me for about six weeks. "
12. Male and female thief = national idol
The 1967 movie "The Male and Female Thief" was released, and the word-of-mouth and box office had a double harvest, and won two Oscars. Bank robbing has become a hot spot in the United States. Warren Beatty and Fei Donnaway play 20 The mandarin duck thieves (Clyde and Bonnie) in the 1930s. The movie positions the unscrupulous duo as a cool Robin Hood couple. After robbing the bank, they begin to flee. The wandering life injects their love into them. Infinite passion. Their carnival spanned the South during the Great Depression and ended in an epic tragedy.
In the real world, although Bonnie and Clyde swept the southwestern United States, they rarely rob banks. They The goal is convenience stores and gas stations. What they steal is money to buy drugs and milk. Their life is not romantic, they dare not go to restaurants to eat, they can only eat canned food, and spend night after night in a stolen car.
It's not just movies that beautify them. In the time of the incident, they were portrayed as national idols, representing youth and freedom. In the context of the Great Depression, the media used to write Bonnie and Clyde as robbing banks to fight the entire financial industry. Folk heroes of the system. Within 12 hours after the deaths of the two were spread, the population of the town where they were shot soared from 2,000 to more than 10,000.
At the beginning, after the movie was released, Time magazine severely commented on it. . Three months later, "Time" changed its tune, praised "The Male and Female Thief" and put it on the cover. History is so turbulent that you can't figure it out.
