Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

bob1689321 t1_je66xpi wrote

Reply to comment by 100percentkneegrow in How accurate was The Social Network by dothingsunevercould

That annoyed me. They tried to package the whole story as "lonely man does all this but still didn't get the girl" because that's something recognisable to Hollywood but it has no truth to it. The woman in the film doesn't even exist.

10

lavabears t1_je6k5s7 wrote

Spielberg did the same thing in his own recent biopic. There was never any girl in real life. It’s weird he would write and direct that.

5

bob1689321 t1_je6mivg wrote

At least his is still a fictional story at the end of the day so it's not as bad. I guess every screenwriter writes the high school they wish they had and not the one they got lol.

3

BeginningAppeal8599 t1_je6xkna wrote

Because following real life stories exactly without dramatization and timeline changes won't sell a film.

Even documentaries do a lot of manipulation.

1