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| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
I heard from a friend of a friend who knows the sound guy on the set that the DJ actually does exist and the story is true, although Frankie Wilde is not his real name, and that those who say the movie is fake are really faking. |
I'd have to call BS, just in the respect that I don't think this movie was based solely on anyone.
Apparently there's a deaf happy hardcore DJ who also happens to be a Toronto resident...Didn't get his name though.
However, during the Q & A after the Jackman hall screening for Pete Tong, the director Michael Dowse, played up the audience by saying he made it up. When someone asked about the begining credits saying "based on a true story" Someone asked "how could you do that?" and he replied "people do that all the time! Look at Fargo!" Needless to say, the girl asking the question was completely astounded and dumbfounded by his response.
At another screening, Michael Dowse admitted that the movie was loosely based on Beethoven....And one particular scene where you hear Beethoven in the background would be a good indication of that.
I'm surprised at how gullible some of you are to assume that because a movie says "based on a true story" you'd think that it has to emulate every facet and characteristic of the original story....When you break it down, saying "based on a true story" just implies that it has similiar characteristics. I'd even go as far as to say that a large majority of Hollywood films that say "based on a true story" are really just loosely based, and very loosely based at that.
Anyone that has researched the "true" Amityville story would know this. The only thing that was accurate were the names of the people, and the fact that a massacre did in fact occur in that house. However, there was no mention of demon possession, or an indian burial ground. The lawyer for the Defeo family sat down with the writer of the original novel and actually orchestrated this plot, which later helped Ronnie Defeo get off with temporary insanity, even though none of the occurances in the novel were real.
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