When you’re watching a movie, and you see “Based on true events” scrolling past the screen at the beginning… you have to believe it right? Wrong. Hollywood has been fabricating stories just to get more views, which means more money. Some of the ones I’m about to tell you might shock you.

Some more known movies that are all spin offs of the actual events are: “Titanic,” “The Blind Side” and “Monsters: The Eric and Lyle Menendez Story.”

In the movie “Titanic,” there was no Jack and Rose. The two characters were made up so that there was an actual storyline that people could fall in love with besides the boat sinking. And if the two main characters were fake, so were the families and friends surrounding them making the thriller a fantasy. The only thing true about this movie that was portrayed right is the boat hitting the iceberg.

Much like the “Titanic,” the popular movie that can leave people emotionally distraught by the storyline is “The Blind Side.” “The Blind Side” is a popular movie that is thought to be the heartwarming story of how NFL and NCAA legend Micheal Oher became. The story again starts with “Based off of a true story” but couldn’t be further from the truth. Oher was pictured to have been adopted by a lovely couple with two kids, the Touhys. The story couldn’t be more from the truth. Oher claims the Tuohys tricked him into signing a conservatorship at the age of 18. They never actually adopted him. And also, Micheal received no profits from neither the movie, nor the book sales. The Touhys kept it all.

A newer story that is suffering from the lies is the “Monsters” series on Netflix, specifically the Eric and Lyle Menedez story. The show is supposed to tell the heartbreaking story of two brothers who murdered their parents, and why they did it. It is a known fact that the brothers were sexually, physically and mentally abused by their father since they were kids. But in the show, the writers make the brothers out to be sociopaths who were in love? Eric Menedez spoke out a few days after the release of the show stating that “Blatant lies rampant the show,” and that they made it out to where the brothers had a sexual relationship. Menedez said that this is the “dishonest portrayal” of the story.

Those three movies and shows are just the start of a list of stories that have been manipulated by Hollywood writers due to greed. Instead of the stories being told the right way for education purposes, the stories were fabricated for more money.

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