Real or Fake Charectors in true stories?

Question

I notice at least half the time true stories are told, most charectors except for very very important ones are fictional..

RUDY is a great example of this.. Most of the main charectors:
The priest
the grounds keeper

and some others are not actual people.. their based on several people (each) that helped rudy.


"The Rookie" is another good one.. I live 90 miles from where that happened, and i have found out most of the towns people are fake (except the baseball highschool team).

what are some good examples of this?

Answer 1

I think no one is answering because you've pretty much summed it up already yourself. Not much else to add. It is true that most all true stories have mixed 'real and fictional' characters. Same is also true for books. It's easier to do them this way than to get contracts signed by all the actual people involved. Imagine doing a high school scene in a true story of your life. You would either use some fictional characters or you would have to go look up 'everyone' that went to your high school at the same time you did. Good analogy though :-)

Answer 2

Black Hawk Down. The Delta Force Operator, named Hoot. Was actually a made up by combining multiple people.

Answer 3

another example of this is the Titanic most of the character and their stories are fiction. molly brown ,the captain, Mr and Mrs Strauss and Mr and Mrs Astor were real life people who were on the titanic but jack and rose are fictional.

Answer 4

tom hank's character in the movie Catch Me If You Can. while abignale (de caprio) is a real person, hank's character was the summation of all of the team members who worked on the case