Name: Top 20 Normal People Who Inspired HUGE Movies
Uploaded: 2025-11-19T17:26:01.000Z
Duration: 23 min 32 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

Adverbs of manner

Basic passive voice

Welcome to watchmojo and today we're counting down our picks for real people who were not widely known public figures when they influenced a successful biopic or fictional film character.

Hit documentaries like Hoop Dreams are not included.

He was never convinced what he was doing was the right thing to do, but

20 Michael Oher and the the Blindside In 2004, Sean and Leigh Ann Tuohy were more local celebrities in Memphis for their lucrative entrepreneurship.

Their boldest investment was a good natured teenager whom they raised from poverty into a promising athletic career.

Michael Lewis wrote about this in a book which was adapted into a film the year Michael Oyr was drafted into the NFL.

When you look at him, you think of me, how you have my back, how you have his, okay?

The Blind side became a massive hit, winning Sandra Bullock an Oscar for her portrayal of Leigh Anne.

However, the film is criticized for its offensively inaccurate white savior narrative, even by Orr himself.

Orr says the Tuohys gave away the rights to his life story for the Blind side while they profited.

Now he wants the money he believes he's owed.

In 2023 he sued the Tuohys to dissolve his conservatorship, alleging that they exploited him for fame and profit.

Whether that was their intention, the results are undeniable.

The Tuohy family attorney speaking out tonight disputing the former NFL player's accusation that he was tricked into making the Tuohys his conservators in 2004 instead of being adopted.

Number 19 Billy Hayes Midnight Express Reckless Youth of Billy Hayes ended with an incident that gained global attention.

In 1970, the 23 year old American drug smuggler was captured in Turkey and sentenced to four years in Istanbul's Sagmauselar prison.

I hoped somehow to get out of this quickly so that you'd never have to know about it, but

The brutal conditions as well as Turkish and American authorities, denial of an early release for good behavior prompted Hayes to escape.

He then fled the country and wrote Midnight Express with William Hoffer.

The book was quickly adapted into an acclaimed film cited as the breakout of Oscar winning screenwriter Oliver Stone and and Golden Globe winning actor Brad Davis.

It's also cited in discourse surrounding the ethics of America's war on drugs.

Meanwhile, Hayes has turned his life around as an actor, writer and public speaker.

Every city that the film has opened in has created controversy.

The Turkish government has officially protested the opening in every city it's been in.

Chris McCandless into the Wild A champion for adventure, became a cautionary figure in 1992.

After traveling from Virginia to Alaska, 24 year old Chris McCandless was found dead in a bus abandoned in the woods, officially of starvation.

This tragedy, as well as journal entries written under the pseudonym Alexander Supertramp or were the subject of an article and a best selling book by Jon Krakauer.

Sean Penn directed and wrote the adaptation of into the Wild with Emile Hirsch in his breakout role.

The film earned such high praise that many fans risked even lost, their lives to find the site of McCandless death.

The bus was thus moved to a Museum in 2020, with into the Wild being more commemorative of the beast, beauty of life and wanderlust.

Penny Anne Trumbull Almost Famous music journalist turned filmmaker Cameron Crowe's travels with Led Zeppelin, the Allman Brothers Band and Eagles were the basis for the cult classic Almost Famous.

Of course, everyone wanted to know the true identity of Penny Lane.

This mysterious band aid was a composite of several groupies Crow befriended, particularly Penny Ann Trumbull of the Flying Garter Girls.

At this time, please extinguish all smoking materials for the captain has turned on the no Smoking sign.

Your seats and tray tables should be locked and in their full upright position.

She was a legend in the seventies rock touring scene under the nickname Penny Lean before finding more understated success as a businesswoman.

She nonetheless praised Almost Famous for immortalizing her with Kate Hudson's iconic Golden Globe winning performance.

There are real problems in the band off the record.

Your name should be Spencer and mine will be Jane.

But another alleged inspiration, writer Pamela Debar, was frustrated about being shut out from the film's depiction of groupie culture.

I was standing there and I heard somebody say, oh, she must be a groupie.

Number 16 Maria Bellon the Impossible Physician Maria Bellon was on holiday in Thailand with her husband and children when they got caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Bailon miraculously reunited with her family and was able to recover from severe injuries.

Out of respect for the families that weren't so lucky, she sold her story to be made into a movie.

The impossible changed the Spanish family to British with Belon being portrayed by her favorite actress, Naomi Watts.

I was very aware of our connection and the presence of her was the reminder of what we were doing at all times.

I mean, there were so many reminders because we were in the place that this story took place.

The film was otherwise praised for its uncompromising accuracy and emotional force.

It also notably featured an incredible breakout performance by a 14 year old Tom Holland.

More importantly, Bailon has since used her stardom to advocate for fellow survivors around the world.

Margaret Fairchild, the Lady in the Van Once a World War II ambulance driver, a pianist and a nun marvel, Margaret Fairchild was known to the Camden Town elite as a nuisance for living in a van around their homes.

She wound up spending the last 15 years of her life in the driveway of writer Alan Bennett.

Some writers spend their lives writing about going to Patagonia or the thighs of two dozen women or whatever.

Ms. Shepherd was part of what I was given.

He then preserved Fairchild's bizarre story with a 1989 play starring Maggie Smith, who reprised the role in the 2015 film adaptation of the lady in the Van.

I mean, I ask for a wheelchair, what does she get me?

And she says, I don't get an allowance unless I get an address.

The commercial and critical hit is now remembered for one of Smith's last and greatest performances.

It should also serve as a reminder that the outcasts of society could have had a life worthy of any theater.

It won't look as if I'm being taken away, will it?

Where they take people because they're not right.

Matt Damon's superstardom started with an MIT janitor who's revealed to be a genius when he solves a near impossible equation on a blackboard.

The artist was visiting a friend at the esteemed university when he jokingly wrote an unsolvable problem on a blackboard in the infinity Corridor.

The romantic idea of MIT students needing a convenient medium for sudden brilliant ideas gave Kyle's brother the brilliant idea of Good Will Hunting.

The film won Matt and Ben Affleck the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay while helping to establish them as major actors.

Of course, when Matt gave the commencement address to MIT's Class of 2016, he gave fair credit to the less famous Damon.

And how lucky you are that you're here and you're you and how lucky we are that you're here and you're you.

Paul Rucesa Baguina Hotel Rwanda the summer of 1994 saw the horror of ordinary people slaughtering each other in Rwanda.

It also saw ordinary people like Paul Rusessa Baguina risking everything to stop the violence.

Most importantly, this cannot be a refugee camp.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

Top 20 Normal People Who Inspired HUGE Movies

career

express

dude

commercial