Visualizations that show how true "based on a true story" movies are

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Rendello · 13h ago

I'd like to see Catch Me If You Can. Frank Abignale's stories apparently all fall apart under investigation, meaning his whole story and career where a hoax. I can't even be upset, his whole shtick was being a great imposter in the first place!

https://whyy.org/segments/the-greatest-hoax-on-earth/

oatsandsugar · 14h ago

True: Selma, The Big Short, Bridge of Spies

Not True: Imitation Game, Hacksaw Ridge, American Sniper

jsheard · 11h ago

They missed a trick by not putting Fargo on there.

chrismcb · 12h ago

Why is this a link to a link? Why not just link the original?

valbaca · 12h ago

Save you a click-through: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a...

WalterGR · 12h ago

Actual URL: https://informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/based-on-a...

dang · 6h ago

Ok, we've changed to that from https://kottke.org/25/05/0046769-a-series-of-info-visualiz above. Thanks!

cadamsdotcom · 11h ago

@dang any chance of an update to the link this goes to?

Big fan of Kottke and his work but this time there's not much value add.

dang · 6h ago

Yep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43875940. Thanks!

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Visualizations that show how true "based on a true story" movies are

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