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The way they snubbed sixth brother... Poor thing. So disrecpectful

posted 3 months ago by emori (3102)
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Yes. There was one more brother. The younger one. Chris.

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Who, for some reason, was snubbed by movie. He killed himself too. Apparently could not achieve level of success of his brothers. And then movie was like: "Yeah, you are not even interesting enough for movie about your family. Buy, Felicia".

I felt sorry for fella. Being in the shadow of his brothers. And then wiped from history at all. And it was disrespectful to audience too. It's even more impactful that one more brother died while young. Before his parents.

The film altogether omits the youngest brother, Chris, who suffered from health issues throughout his life and never achieved the same level of success in the ring as his father and brothers. As stated previously, Chris Von Erich committed suicide when he was 21.

According to Entertainment Weekly, director Sean Durkin said that he did have Chris in his original script but painfully had to cut the character because he could only fit so much in the movie. Instead, he blended elements of Chris into brother Mike Von Erich's storyline, depicting Mike as the sensitive youngest brother who couldn't reach the same level of fame as the others.

[–] BlackMass (698) 2 months ago

How many brothers blowing themselves away do we need in one movie?

[–] emori (3102) 2 months ago

Thing is - this really happened. And that is the catch of that movie. If all of them would be alive - Hollywood would not care and not do movie. But when they shoot about real people - they must do right at least major points. Or don't call "based on true events" and give characters names of real people.

In Alpha Dog movie it was very rare situation when they took real story but gave fake names to every character. And no one could accuse them in omitting and making up things. Because it was "inspired", but real people's names were not spoken.

[–] millsey72 (9604) 2 months ago

I am hearing that the 6th brother will be in the sequel

[–] redban (5253) 2 months ago

Who, for some reason, was snubbed by movie.

It's not "for some reason." They made that decision to restrain the movie's length. They would've had to add another 20-30 minutes (minimum) for another brother because they'd need to develop this brother's personality and show why this brother committed suicide. The movie was already over 2 hours as is, and look at how quick they had to do certain events (e.g. Kerry's leg injury)

I think it's fine. We got the jist of the family's tragic story with just 4 of them.

[–] Clapstick (114) a month ago

Agreed. People saying they had to cut him out due to run time but that’s just ridiculous. Omitting an entire sibling and not even mentioning that yet another comitted suicide? That’s 3 of 6 brothers!