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  • Well, it's a good story, but it makes for a terrible history lesson.

  • Welcome to watch Mojo.

  • And today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 least historically accurate biopics for this list.

  • We're looking at biopics that took enormous creative liberties with their historical subjects.

  • The discrepancies can come in the form of character changes and major dramatic deviations from the real story.

  • And obviously, a spoiler alert is now in effect.

  • If you like what you're hearing, be sure to check out the full song at the link below Number 10.

  • The Irishman.

  • Okay, well, you did it or not.

  • That makes no difference to me.

  • I don't know.

  • I'm here to defend you.

  • The Irishman is based on Charles Brands nonfiction book I Heard You Paint Houses, which chronicles the life of Frank Sheeran and his alleged connection to the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.

  • It's seemingly and finally solves the mystery of office fate.

  • Or does it?

  • Unfortunately, there's no way to corroborate this story.

  • We don't know what that was going on.

  • In fact, numerous experts have come forward to debunk the claims made in the book, including a Harvard Law School professor named Jack Goldsmith and the cases lead FBI investigator Andrew Slows.

  • There is still no proof that Sharon killed anyone, let alone Jimmy Hoffa.

  • It certainly makes for a good legend, but a legend.

  • It may remain.

  • Everybody's dead, Mr Sheeran.

  • It's over.

  • They're all gone.

  • Number nine.

  • Alexander.

  • I didn't cross Asia to steal this victory.

  • No, you're too honorable for that.

  • Seriously, Why are there no good movies about Alexander?

  • The great director Oliver Stone has admitted he ignored history for the purposes of dramatic storytelling.

  • And as you can imagine, this has seriously ticked off some historians.

  • There's just so much wrong with this movie that we don't even know where to start.

  • The depictions of the Persians is a big one, as they're portrayed as disorganized, turbaned and speaking Arabic when in reality none of that was true.

  • So that's problematic.

  • Some characters are also much younger than they were in real life key battles or mixed up or ignored entirely, and the movie largely ignored the admirable relationship between Alexander and Porous.

  • To this day, there is no accounting of how many died.

  • It was the worst blunder of his life.

  • Number eight, the greatest showman wait Thief story about one of history's biggest shysters and conmen was made into a feel good and empowering musical.

  • We never thought we'd see the day Charles, right, Age 22.

  • The movie ignores the fact that Tom Thumb was just five years old when he started touring under Barnum and not 22.

  • And Jenny Lind quit because she was sick of Barnum's relentless greed, not because he rejected her advances.

  • I'm just another one of you.

  • And let's not forget that the movie completely ignores the fact that Barnum exploited a blind and paralyzed slave for his own profit and amusement.

  • Maybe the movie's a piece of metaphysics Shin and aimed to con us like Barnum conned his audiences.

  • We think we cracked it people into all our lives.

  • Yeah, Number seven Bohemian Rhapsody leads Signage is quick.

  • Well, then you need someone.

  • You Is this the real life?

  • Well, a lot is actually just fantasy.

  • This Freddie Mercury biopic contained a ton of historical inaccuracies that favorite sentimentality over realism.

  • Mercury was not the first queen member to release a solo project, so that whole subplot was nonsense.

  • Are you asking me?

  • Break up the band There's also the fact that Live Aid was not a reunion concert, and the filmmakers only made it so for dramatic and inspiring purposes.

  • And that's not to mention all the inaccuracies within Mercury's life itself.

  • These include falsifying his family background, displaying a problematic representation of Paul printer and changing the timeline of Mercury's HIV diagnosis.

  • Number six.

  • The King's Speech This is a great title for a movie as it tells you all you need to know about the story.

  • It's just too bad that the key problem at the center of the story that is the king overcoming a stammer to make an impassioned speech is largely fictional.

  • Yes, King George the sixth did have a slight stammer.

  • And yes, he did seek the counsel of speech therapist Lionel Logue to fix it.

  • However, King George in Low began working together in 1926 and by 1927 a k.

  • A.

  • 12 years before the Declaration of War, King George was giving clear and resonant speech is not only that, but the characterization of Logue was largely fabricated as he never swore or called King George Birdy Birdy.

  • I heard you at Wembley.

  • I was there, my son Laurie said.

  • Dad, do you think you could help?

  • That poor man is a failed actor.

  • It's true, I'm not a doctor.

  • Number five, the social network and you know from the bottom of my heart that that won't be true.

  • Facebook is arguably one of the most important inventions of the modern era, and the story of its inception deserves to be told.

  • However, acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin admitted that he took some major creative liberties and relaying the story.

  • The Internet's not written in pencil mark.

  • It's written in ink, and you published that Erica Albright is a bitch right before you made some ignorant crack about my family's name, bra size and then rated women based on their hotness.

  • Most of the criticisms aimed at the movie concerned the cold and selfish characterization of Zuckerberg himself.

  • By all accounts, sucker Berg was a very nice and welcoming man, and he certainly didn't start Facebook in a fit of vengeful rage.

  • Following a break up, Zuckerberg, cofounders Dustin Moskovitz and Edwardo Sabirin and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg all objected to the movies, distorted facts and said that it had little bases in the boring reality you know, you really don't need a forensics team to get to the bottom of this.

  • If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you have invented Facebook number four.

  • A Beautiful mind.

  • Be a mathematical explanation for how bad your tires.

  • Mathematician John Nash was a brilliant man with a brilliant story, and Russell Crowe brought said story to life with mesmerizing aplomb.

  • It's just not entirely accurate.

  • The screenplay was viciously roasted by critics and historians, many of whom noted the omission of Nash is inappropriate sexual escapades, numerous affairs, raging classism, anti Semitism and neglectful abusive, his first wife and son.

  • In short, it's significantly toned down and streamlined a far more complex individual for misleading feel good purposes.

  • So scared you weren't real.

  • It's much like the greatest showman in that regard.

  • The movie also completely ignores Reinhard Selten and John Her Shaunie to co recipients who shared the Nobel Prize with Nash.

  • My question is taking me through the physical metaphysical, the delusional number three Braveheart Braveheart is a classic, but let's be honest.

  • It's a total mess when it comes to historical accuracy.

  • Screenwriter Randall Wallace claims he took inspiration from an epic 15th century poem, which many experts claim has little basis in reality.

  • Scotland.

  • I will watch you well.

  • It's a seven feet tall.

  • There's the bungling of the timeline as Scotland was invaded by England only one year prior to the rebellion.

  • Isabella was also three years old and in an entirely different country during the Battle of Falkirk.

  • I am the Princess of Wales.

  • I come as the king's servant and with his authority.

  • There's also the problematic representation of William Wallace himself.

  • He did not wear a kilt as kilts did not exist.

  • At the time, he was not a mere commoner.

  • He hung those who refused conscription and oh, yeah, he was not Braveheart.

  • That moniker actually belonged to Robert the Bruce.

  • Number two, Amadeus Ah, Mozart.

  • Amadeus is a superb and suitably epic biopic concerning the legendary Amadeus Mozart.

  • But like Braveheart, its fabled status doesn't excuse.

  • It's gross inaccuracies.

  • We could talk all day about Mozart being right handed, conducting in a modern style and not enjoying the works of handle.

  • I know your work.

  • Well, signore, do you know I I actually composed some variations on a melody of yours, but the biggest offender is the central conflict between Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

  • Despite a brief rivalry, the composers were actually good friends.

  • They saw each other.

  • His colleagues respected each other's work and even composed a solo cantata together.

  • The idea that Salieri hated Mozart and planned his death was nothing but a rumor that later entered the public consciousness, thanks to a play published in 18 30 called Mozart and Salieri.

  • The rest is history.

  • Fake history.

  • I don't think you should become known in Vienna as a debtor.

  • Mozart.

  • Did any of these surprise you by how inaccurate they actually are.

  • I mean, you think a movie like the Social Network would be relatively accurate since its recent history, and the people are still around to fact check right now?

  • Well, Hollywood works its magic to make real life interesting, I guess so.

  • Which biopic is least historically accurate?

  • Let's take a look at some honorable or dishonorable mentions, and then we shall see.

  • It's a pretty bad one.

  • Honestly, I've loved you So lum on me.

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  • Number one The Conqueror.

  • There are moments for wisdom.

  • Jim Oga.

  • Then I Listen to you.

  • The Conqueror is widely regarded as one of the worst films of all time.

  • It stars John Wayne as Genghis Khan, the controversial founder of the malicious and devastating Mongol Empire.

  • And yes, that is the John Wayne.

  • The egregious Yellow Face alone is enough to warrant the top spot on this list.

  • One of my brothers, Jim Rogan Cas, are one holds them captive.

  • However, the movie is also filled with other inaccuracies, including issues with the people, tribes, places and costumes.

  • Perhaps the biggest deviation, you know, aside from the yellow face, is that Genghis Khan kidnaps.

  • Bortin forces her to love him when in actuality board, I was betrothed to con in an arranged marriage.

  • I have taken you for wife for Ty and I take your dowry.

  • They set out to make an epic, and they did on epic failure also oppose me shall be destroyed.

  • Also submit shall be spared.

  • No, really.

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  • Let us know in the comments.

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Well, it's a good story, but it makes for a terrible history lesson.

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