When reality surpasses fiction and producers know
There are few people who think Hollywood is running out of Good ideas to produce films like those before. In the 1990s films such as: Forrest Gump, life imprisonment either Pretty Woman, which are considered today as great cinematographic productions. In 2022 most productions are sequels of old successful films, formulas already used, or films based on books or real stories.
That has demonstrated, in many cases, that reality far exceeds fiction, and that productions Based on real stories They can be very successful. Without going any further, the winners of the Oscar Best actor and actress this year, they have been Will Smith and Jessica Chastain By the Williams method and the eyes of Tammy FAGE respectively, two films that relate Stories of very real characters. This is no accident, because it seems that the Hollywood strategy to correct the lack of ideas is to pull real events. In this way, we are having great productions whose success starts from that base of reality.
Today in friking we bring you the best series based on real stories with which you will enjoy while remembering that the best stories do not have to be fictional.
1. Who is Anna?
The successful Netflix series that speaks of Anna Delvey or Sorokin, a girl of Russian-German origin who passed through a Rich German heiress infiltrated in high New York society. A few years ago, when it was discovered that Anna Delvey was no heiress and that what she was actually doing was robbing millions of euros to the New York rich, she was wrapped in a media scandal of enormous proportions. One of her "intimate friends" he also stole, wrote a book about the case, although the series is based on the article he wrote Jessica Pressler In New York magazine. While it is true that the series is based on real events, they are taken Many licenses, and that is why some of the people portrayed in the series have publicly denied some of the things that are related. But in his favor it can be said that he already warns us Netflix At the beginning of each chapter with a brief but firm: "This whole story is completely real, except all the parts that are fully invented." Even so it is an entertaining series and gives an overview of who Anna Delvey was actually.
2. Landscapers
Called in Spanish "How to get into a garden", is a miniseries of HBO based on the rugged case of murder and robbery carried out by Susan and Christopher Edward. The perpetual English couple the murder of Susan's parents and proceeded to bury them in the back garden of their Mansfield house, and then keep their money that they invested in film collection items. In 2014 they were discovered and condemned to 25 years in prison. A story that Landscapers tells in just 4 chapters and leaving anyone with chicken skin.
3. The Dropout
The new series that premieres Disney Plus on April 7 and that the case of the well -known businesswoman and scammer counts Elizabeth Holmes. It is seen that the thing goes from scammers and murderers, but these are the best stories. Elizabeth Holmes's certainly has no waste. The businesswoman and founder of Theranos, Millionaire became selling the idea that there would be a technology that could detect any disease with just a drop of blood. Characters like Rupert Murdock or Bill Clinton They invested in the Holmes project and was even cover of the magazine Forbes as one of the younger millionaires in history. But as they say, "he catches a liar before a lame" and finally the story of Holmes fell by his own weight creating a scandal of millionaire proportions.
4. So see us
Case -based "Central Park Five" of 1989, for which five black boys were falsely accused of rape. The series does not focus so much on the facts that took place in the murder, but on the experience of adolescents when they are unfairly accused after a series of hard police interrogations, manipulated judgments and institutional clusters. The five boys turned from 5 up to 15 years in prison Until Matías Reyes, a prisoner who had already been accused previously, confessed the crime and the five were exculpated. The series is a hard story of injustice and racism in the judicial system American that deserves all our attention.
If you have already had enough dose of reality for a day, remember that you can always return to fiction, but without forgetting that it is always overcome by real life, a penalty ...