Guido Baechler Movies You Won’t Believe Are Based On True Stories

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Movies You Wont Believe Are Based On True Stories

• By Guido Baechler

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5 The Hunt for Red October Is Actually Based on
a Much Cooler Story
In 1975, Valery Sablin (the third ranking officer
in the entire Soviet Naval Hierarchy) decided
that the Soviet Union was failing but, instead of
defecting like that cowardly Scotsman, he decided
to sail his Frigate, the Storozhevoy, directly
into the Baltic and broadcast revolutionary
propaganda. Thats right instead of running
away, Officer Sablin was actually trying to start
a revolution.
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4 Final Destination Based Its Opening Scene on a
Real Plane Crash
Obviously, the actual premise has never happened,
but the opening scene did As Roger Ebert pointed
out in his review, the plane crash from the first
film (where death is initially cheated) is based
on TWA Flight 800, the third-worst airborne
disaster in US History.
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3 Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Psycho Are Both
Based on the Same Serial Killer
Both killers (and, to a lesser extent, Buffalo
Bill from Silence of the Lambs) were based on the
Wisconsin murder Ed Gein. Whatd Ed do to get a
following in Hollywood? Its hard to nail it down
to any one thing, but were betting it was a
combination of the fact that he was
creepy-looking, There was also the mask made of
human skin, the suit made of human skin, the lamp
made of human skin
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2 Rockys Real Name is Way More Badass
In the 1970s, there was a little-known boxer
named Chuck The Bayonne Bleeder Wepner and, if
Rocky isnt based on this guy, its one hell of a
coincidence. Bleeder boxed a wrestler (like Rocky
did in Rocky III), maintained a winning record,
and even faced off against a black heavyweight
champion Muhammad Frickin Ali. Luckily, the
Bleeder got his due he sued Stallone in 1976,
and they settled for an undisclosed amount.
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1 Jaws is a True Story, But Not The Way You Think
Jaws is openly based on the 1916 Jersey Shore
Shark Attacks and, though the behavior of the
shark has been exaggerated for effect, the
reactions of the victims isnt. After four people
were killed by an unidentified shark, the people
of New Jersey panicked and launched massive shark
hunts in an attempt to eradicate the man eater
and protect the tourism industry an act the
perfectly mirrors the plot of the film.
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