Getting Reel: A Social Science Perspective on Film By Michael D. ...

• And Justice For All completely misrepresents plea-bargaining?

• Lawrence of Arabia’s family claimed not to recognize the character portrayed by Peter O’Toole?

• Buddy Holly’s band complained the movie of that title was misleading?

• La Bamba was accused of being sanitized?

• We are expected to believe Sidney Poitier’s physicist would fall for the airhead in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?

• Marion Davies’ reputation as a film star was permanently besmirched by the character that purportedly represented her in Citizen Kane?

• Amadeus took great liberties with plot and character?

• Butch Cassidy probably wasn’t killed in Bolivia?

• In a nationwide contest no one could eat as many eggs in an hour as Paul Newman did as Cool Hand Luke?

• Most policemen never fire their guns in a career, despite the evidence of all the cop movies?

• From the novels to the movies the characters, “Idge” (Fried Green Tomatoes) and The Man with No Face had their sexual orientations changed?

• Does it bother you that…the Charlton Heston character in Battle of the Midway tries to land his shot-up WWII prop-driven aircraft, when suddenly it turns into a jet fighter before exploding on the aircraft carrier’s flight-deck?

• That three Chinese actresses played geishas in Memoirs of a Geisha?