The movies we watch every day fascinate us, arouse the curiosity of knowing the details, and stimulate the imagination in our brains, but in the end we know that these details are only the imagination of a writer, the creativity of a director and the brilliance of actors, and then the film loses part of its splendor.
But some very famous and fun Hollywood movies are inspired by real events and personal stories about tragedy and success, and these films immortalize real life moments, memories and individuals, and increase our enjoyment of artwork because we know this happened to someone, and here we show some of these films:
Escape from Alcatraz
In the early 1960's, a clever prisoner named Frank Morris, who plays the role of "Clint Estud", arrives at Alcatraz Island Prison with heavy guard after escaping from several prisons, to tell the prison commander that Alcatraz is a unique prison in the United States and that no one managed to escape. From him successfully, Morris begins his exciting journey to freedom again.
Apocalypse Now
It is an American film, produced in 1979, and revolves during the Vietnam War. It tells the story of an American officer who is sent on a special mission to the bush to assassinate a dissident colonel and accused of madness in the US Army Special Forces.
Francis Ford Coppola directed the movie about Joseph Conrad's novel "The Heart of Darkness" with free acting in the novel, as well as about the war diaries of another American writer on the Vietnam War. The production of the film has been subjected to many difficulties, such as the typhoon that struck the main filming site in the Philippines, which led to the destruction Millions of dollars are completely "platelets", so filming has been extended and the film's production costs have tripled.
The Imitation Game
It is a British-American historical thriller about mathematician, computer and cipher analyst Alan Turing, who had a major role in deciphering the German Nazi star, which helped the Allies win the Second World War, but was later tried for his sexual orientation.
The movie, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing, and directed by Morten Tildum with a script written by Graham Moore, is based on Andrew Hodges' book, "Alan Turing, the Mystery."
The film received its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2014, and was also screened at the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the "Audience Award for Best Film", which is the festival's highest award.
Lawrence of Arabia
A movie directed by British director David Lane in 1962, starring Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Omar Sharif as Sharif Ali, Anthony Quinn as Abu Tayeh, and Alec Guinness as Prince Faisal.
The film tells the story of English lieutenant Lawrence, who is assigned a mission by the British authorities to assist the Arabs led by Sharif al-Hussein bin Ali and his son King Faisal (Prince Faisal at the time) in their war to liberate the Arabian Peninsula from the rule of the Ottoman caliphate.
The film won many awards, and was appreciated by viewers from the beginning of its release until now, and it was considered by many movie audiences and specialists as the greatest movie in the history of American cinema, led by American director Martin Scorsese, who considered him an inspiration in many of his works.
In 1998, the American Film Institute announced its list of the 100 best American films of the twentieth century, and Lawrence of Arabia ranked fifth behind the films "Citizen Kane", "Casablanca", "The Godfather" and "Gone with the Wind".
A Beautiful Mind
It is an American movie released in 2001, which tells the life story of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash in economics, a story inspired by the best-selling book and 1998 Pulitzer Prize nominee of the same name written by Sylvia Nassar.
The film was directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman, and his main roles were: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Christopher Plumer and Paul Bettany.
The movie premiered in cinemas in 2001, and was well received by critics, it grossed more than $ 300 million worldwide, and won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. Nominated for Best Actor Award, Best Editing, Best Makeup and Best Music.
Nevertheless, the film was criticized for the inaccuracy of portraying some aspects of Nash's life, such as portraying a fictional aspect of his visual and auditory hallucinations, while in reality it is only auditory hallucinations, and also contradicts the fact that Nash took medicine between the book and the movie, as Nassar concluded in her book that Nash refused to take The treatment may have been fortunate, because its side effects would have made it almost impossible to re-enter the mathematics world, while Nash had spoken in the film before receiving the Nobel Prize for taking medications.