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Originally Posted by pwalker8
It dawned on me this morning that my initial question is because Hollywood has a long history of biopics - Sargent York with Gary Cooper as Alvin York, The Babe Ruth Story with William Bendix as the Babe, The Pride of the Yankees, a 1942 movie with Gary Cooper as Lou Gehrig Story, The Great Escape, Patton the movie with George C Scott, heck, even The Sound of Music could be considered a biopic. It was based on the real von Trapp family after all (well actually, it was based on a German film about the real von Trapp family). One of my favorite movies, The Wind and the Lion, was based on real events (of course the real Perdicaris was a guy, Ion Perdicaris and was in his late 50's at the time). So the history of Hollywood playing fast and loose with the facts in movies based on real people is the basis of my question, was the Tolkien family involved in the making of the movie.
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Yep Hollywood does twist facts often enough. I remember the case of Braveheart . The real battle of Sterling took place on a bridge for example. The Scots didn't let the English get across the bridge before they attacked. Otherwise the outcome may have been quite different. And the real princess that Mel Gibson's character of William Wallace had a fling with would actually have been a child of (I think) 5-6 at the time not a grown woman. Hollywood changed the facts to create a better story.