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I think they should have stuck closer to the true story. I think the girl was much younger like elementary age. It just makes a better story for younger kids then high school aged.
shareThere is a vast difference between "Based on a true story" versus "Inspired by true events." With the things that have been said about the movie versus the real-life story, I would say that this one falls into the latter category. For it to fall into the former category, the whole storyline about Ice Cube's character would have to bear some truth.
When a story is developed for the big screen, it seems that the first thing that happens is that elements of the original story get altered to make the story palatable for a movie-going audience. You also have to account for the fact that some things that happen in real life will not translate well when adapted into a treatment and then a script.
The writer must become divorced from the literal truth to get to the message the film must convey to give movie-goers that WOW experience - the "ah ha" factor, if you will. Therefore, a story might incorporate elements of the truth - in this case, the little girl who played little league football and took her team to a big win. But much of the rest of the film was a story built around the facts to make it interesting.
So while Jasmine Plummer actually DID play football, the movie itself was INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS. Watch the movie with that in mind and you won't get it twisted!
"The greater the base...the broader the sides...the higher the Point of Freedom."
More enabling and excuses for incompetent writing.
Whether you use the words "a true story", "based on a true story", "inspired by a true story", the intent is to make money off real people, by making the audience believe (more than usual) that what they are seeing actually happened.
Is there some reason this film couldn't have been made without using the words "inspired by true events"? No. This could easily have been a standard fiction film.
When writing a story about something that actually happened, a competent writer does not become divorced from the literal truth. Rather, the literal truth is the standard by which the story is judged. The challenge, more so than simply adapting fiction, is to bring the facts of the story forward, keeping fiction to the necessary minimum, and ensuring the story flows well, and reveals what is truly (pun intended) interesting about the story. The goal is to reveal that wow experience that already exists in the real-world story, and the true character that exists at the heart of it, but may be missed by a simple dry reading of the facts. Hollywood is capable of creating true story films that do not alter or omit major events or characters relevant to the story. So when a film comes along that messes with the story, it's disappointing and annoying. There's no excuse. What was the point of changing the team, for example, but not her name? Jasmine played for the Harvey Colts, in blue. What's the point of making Jasmine, who was apparently strong and aggressive in sports (having been involved in wrestling and apparently breaking a boy's arm in basketball), into a timid fragile creature? From Durst's own statements, he and Keke didn't even meet the person the story was actually about, until they were already shooting it. That's just shameful, and a bit sad.
To say that a person must endure lies so that "you won't get it twisted" is pretty twisted itself.
Only the most juvenile true story writer would claim that they can write a better story than reality has already provided. But if they truly believe they can't bring the real story to the screen without resorting to large amounts of fiction, they should just stick to fiction. It's not like they are being forced to write true stories. That should be left to those who can actually do it.
when this movie came out I read where Keke Palmer and Jasmine Plummer were born in the same hospital, attended school in the same area, are only 1 year apart, Jasmine is a year older, so Keke really did not have to meet her because in a sense she already understood her mentality being from the same small town,
and even though Jasmine is very athletic she is also very shy, I saw her in a interview and she barely spoke just smiled once or twice but appeared to be very shy and intense so I think that character was played right on, Fred Durst did not do a bad job either I look forward to seeing what he takes on next,
these pictures either hit or miss,the Blindside was a hit because it was told from the perspective of the family and Sandra Bullock did an amazing job, The Longshots could have been as successful as Blindside had it not focused so much on a " formula" for sports movies , it also came out in Aug , Blindside came out in football season, yes Blindside was written well but kudos to the marketing team for realizing the appropriate time to bring a football movie out
Any place on the web where I can read the real 'true story'?
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