Hollywood Movies.

Proposition: Hollywood produces great movies, but they don't always tell the truth even it is based on 'true stories' .

I disagree with the statement because even in Malaysian movies, the directors and producers exaggerate in their based on true stories movies. This happened when people only care for the money and the fame instead of telling others the truth. I also learnt that Hollywood movies are the same with the Malaysian movies, too.

As an example, the movie Catch Me If You Can starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks is based on the true story about one of the most famous con-artist in the 20th century. This movie is about how he managed to cash almost $2.5 millions of bad checks without getting caught by the polices. In the movies, he is portrayed as a person who had many problems including family problems and his wife cheating on him. However, the true events doesn't say anything about the real person having these kind of problems. This showed that in order to make the movie more dramatic, the producer changed some of the plot and make it more intense and attractive.

Another example is the movie 127 hours, which based on the real event about a canyoneer, Aron Ralston who was trapped in the boulder in an isolate canyon. This movie showed the journey of Aron which get stuck in the canyon alone and how he had to cut his arm with just a dull multi tool. In the movies, they stated that he found two hikers and he leads them through the narrow canyon. After that, he left the hikers and continue his journey. However, a boulder fell to the bottom of the canyon, hitting his arm and leads to him being stuck in the canyon. In the real event, the real Aron didn't say anything about him meeting the two hikers and leads them to the canyon. This is just the producer trick just to make the movie much more interesting and to make the plot longer and attract people to watch it.

Conclusion, producers and directors tend to exaggerate and adds more dramatic scene in order to make their movies interesting and make more money.