HOLLYWOOD MOVIES

In my opinion, Hollywood movies on 'true stories' don't necessarily mean they are true. It is because a day after Ben Affleck's Argo won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Daily Mail in not-so-merry-old England posted an article on its website hitting out at the movie for what it called a "long list of films that bend the truth to suit Hollywood". It is a British newspaper after all, so no prizes for guessing what truths the writer accused Hollywood of bending. For those who are unfamiliar with the movie, Argo tells the story of a rescue mission to bring several staff members of the United States embassy in Teheran to safety when Iranian students stormed the embassy during the country's revolution in 1979. Affleck's flick was torn apart because of one short sentence in the movie, where an American Central Intelligence Agency officer said British diplomats had turned away the US embassy staffers. The truth of the matter was that the Americans were told not to enter the British embassy as it, too, was surrounded by an angry mob. So, it can be prove that not all of the Hollywood movies were true and people really need to know that watching a Hollywood movie "based on a true story" doesn't necessarily mean you are getting the truth of the truth story but just get the imagination about the story.