19th April 2006, 2:26 AM
...no it doesn't. :D
But you dont get it i'll try to explain, i was using extremes to make my point. But basically, if you tell someone it's a true story it's more amazing and people will read in to it more, apply their own thinking, life experiences in to the story and draw experience and education from the story. A good example of this would be Saving Private Ryan where fictional characters embark on a fictional mission inside a true event.
WW2 vets watched the move and said that the level of realism and the feeling of war is spot on, "It's as if the filmmakers traveled back in time and brought a camera with them". It sparked *massive* appeal in the WW2 vets who could finally look at a movie as a realistic depiction and not hollywood fodder. Within weeks of the film's release TV shows popped up discussing WW2 and using the movie to explain actual events in history. However, things of the character's nature, introspective looks in to their thinking, the dramatization of emotions etc are all inferred and while wholly truthful they are to tell the story and create a more emotional experience.
Saving Private Ryan is a fictional story but was grounded in real life enough to give peoplle the ability to draw from its experience, while tom hanks was not in WW2, his character was, they all were modeled after real people and the events, shoot outs, etc were crafted from first hand accounts and testimony, so we end up with a fictional story that is also a true one.
Frey's book falls in to this same catagory, while some things were embelished for puroses of drama the story is still true. because of that the book deserves a based on a true story title and if that title wasn't there it would not have created the impact it was designed to do.
Now as I said before, a good sci-fi can offer the same experience but usually not on a scale of personal struggle. if that book about fuh on the moon was released people would find it mildy entertaining. But tell them it's a re-telling of an actual Korean POW and suddenly interest will be ten fold.
But you dont get it i'll try to explain, i was using extremes to make my point. But basically, if you tell someone it's a true story it's more amazing and people will read in to it more, apply their own thinking, life experiences in to the story and draw experience and education from the story. A good example of this would be Saving Private Ryan where fictional characters embark on a fictional mission inside a true event.
WW2 vets watched the move and said that the level of realism and the feeling of war is spot on, "It's as if the filmmakers traveled back in time and brought a camera with them". It sparked *massive* appeal in the WW2 vets who could finally look at a movie as a realistic depiction and not hollywood fodder. Within weeks of the film's release TV shows popped up discussing WW2 and using the movie to explain actual events in history. However, things of the character's nature, introspective looks in to their thinking, the dramatization of emotions etc are all inferred and while wholly truthful they are to tell the story and create a more emotional experience.
Saving Private Ryan is a fictional story but was grounded in real life enough to give peoplle the ability to draw from its experience, while tom hanks was not in WW2, his character was, they all were modeled after real people and the events, shoot outs, etc were crafted from first hand accounts and testimony, so we end up with a fictional story that is also a true one.
Frey's book falls in to this same catagory, while some things were embelished for puroses of drama the story is still true. because of that the book deserves a based on a true story title and if that title wasn't there it would not have created the impact it was designed to do.
Now as I said before, a good sci-fi can offer the same experience but usually not on a scale of personal struggle. if that book about fuh on the moon was released people would find it mildy entertaining. But tell them it's a re-telling of an actual Korean POW and suddenly interest will be ten fold.