Inneresting 80
issue 80
December 17th, 2021
Matt Birchler uses historical oil prices to explain how sharing objective data always creates a subjective story.
Reading that post lead to a question: What are some examples of stories where reality was a starting point for a longer narrative journey?
Based on True Events
Amy S. Tate gives an overview of changes Remember the Titans made in the story of integrating the T.C. Williams High School football team. Chasing the Frog takes a takes a deeper dive into details altered or omittedfor the film.
Historical war gaming channel Little Wars TV compares Tombstone and Wyatt Earp to what we know about the actual life of Earp.
Sean Axmaker lists a series of fiction films that draw heavily from documentaries on the same subject.
Based on Potentially True Events
Released eight months apart, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb and Fail Safe started with the premise of a mistakenly triggered nuclear war, then headed in very different directions.
Eric Schlosser lays out the details about nuclear weapons both films got right.
Aaron at the Movies gives a history of the making of both films, and shows some of the things that set them apart.
Bilge Ebiri what makes Fail Safe special compared to its more famous counterpart.
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Previously on Inneresting…
In case you missed it, last issue’s most clicked link had John explain in his blog how to introduce a character on the page.
Other Cool Things
Twitter account Every Second Song chooses a song each day that is one second longer than the last.
Beth Daley suggests it’s good that time management has gotten harder because it means there are more choices and opportunities.
Ben Stokes explains how he engineered a way to directly convert words written on paper into a website.
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