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

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• $Rendello 4 days 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/

• $chrismcb 4 days ago

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

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  • $oatsandsugar 3 days ago

    Thanks! Should have linked the link!

• $oatsandsugar 4 days ago

  True: Selma, The Big Short, Bridge of Spies

  Not True: Imitation Game, Hacksaw Ridge, American Sniper

• $jsheard 4 days ago

  They missed a trick by not putting Fargo on there.

• $valbaca 4 days ago

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

• $WalterGR 4 days ago

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

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  • $dang 4 days ago

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

• $cadamsdotcom 4 days 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.

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  • $dang 4 days ago

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

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