Random Horrible True Stories Left Out Of Biopics To Make Person Look Bett (15 items)

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  (#1) 'Kundun' Leaves Out Torture And Human Slavery

  History - and popular culture - remember the Tibetan monks as victims of Communist China's cruel mid-century takeover of Tibet. The reality is much more complicated. Before China invaded the Tibetans' homeland, the 'peaceful' monks often kept and tortured human slaves. They also overtaxed and mistreated most Tibetans under their rule. 

  Martin Scorsese's Kundun, which follows the life of Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th and current Dalai Lama, paints Tibetans as nonviolent victims for the sake of story. Before the 1997 movie arrived, this myth had already been promulgated by the monks themselves in an effort to curry national favor. 
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  (#8) 'Birdman Of Alcatraz' Conveniently Leaves Out The Part About Robert Stroud Being A Violent Prison Instigator

  The 1962 biopic, Birdman of Alcatraz, tells the story of the mild-mannered first-Leavenworth, then-Alcatraz prison inmate, Robert Stroud. In the film, Stroud, played by Burt Lancaster, is certainly rebellious (he's in prison for something, after all), but his overall tenor is one of care and affection; after all, he nurses and breeds sparrows and canaries in a specially designated area of the prison. In the film, Stroud's rebelliousness peaks in his penning of a critique of the US prison system.

  In real life, though, this overwhelmingly gentle, mild-mannered version of Stroud is far from accurate. In fact, Stroud remained incredibly violent and aggressive throughout his prison sentence, and some of his fellow inmates have even characterized the film as a "comedy" because it's portrayal of Stroud is so far from the truth.

  The real "Birdman of Alcatraz" once viciously assaulted a hospital orderly, stabbed a fellow inmate, and constantly created "chaos and turmoil and upheaval" while behind bars. Conveniently, most of this behavior didn't make the biopic.
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  (#7) 'The Theory Of Everything' Glosses Over The Hawkings' Terrible Marriage Disintegration

  In 1999, Jane Hawking (the former wife of Stephen Hawking), released her 610-page memoir, Music to Move the Stars, and, in it, she recounts some of the darkest moments from her marriage to the genius. She describes Stephen Hawking as an "all-powerful emperor" and "masterful puppeteer" because of his incredibly large ego and the degree of control he exercised over not only their relationship but also on most of those around him. She also records the relationship between Stephen and his nurse, Elaine Mason, whom he would later marry, as well as her own affair with Jonathan Hellyer-Jones, whom she would also go on to marry, as well. 

  This account doesn't really jibe with the love story portrayed in the 2014 movie, which stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones as Stephen and Jane Hawking. Instead, The Theory of Everythingcenters on their romance along with Stephen's genius and physical degeneration. The film primarily shows the two as a unit oriented against the world; it glosses over their mutual affairs; and it says nothing about the intense and well-documented abuse that Elaine has been accused of perpetuating against Stephen.
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  (#2) 'Gandhi' Slept With Underaged Girls

  Everyone, including the Oscar-winning Gandhi, assumes that Mahatma Gandhi was morally pristine because he was starving all the time. Not the case. As it turns out, the brave, peaceful hero of Colonial India was actually kind of a pervert. As a 'test' of his piety and purity, he would sleep next to young girls - including his grand-niece - and force himself not to touch them or become aroused.

  This disrespect for women fell in line with his documented assertion that menstrual blood is a "manifestation of the distortion of a woman's soul by her sexuality." Oh and he also believed that Black people are sub-human. But Ben Kingsley's acting (and brownface), tho. 
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  (#6) 'A Beautiful Mind' Overlooked John Nash's Anti-Semitism And Sexual Assault

  Yep, this beautiful, heartfelt movie about overcoming mental illness and finding true love was also about a rapey, closeted gay man who hated Jewish people. Although John Nash and his wife deny any allegations that he slept with men, the records prove otherwise. Several of his male friends from young adulthood have gone public about Nash's awkward passes at them. There's also plenty of proof that Nash had ill feelings towards Jewish people, but he has since blamed those actions on being crazy. 

  These allegations were actually used against A Beautiful Mind in one of the nastiest Oscar-smear campaigns of recent history. 
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  (#13) 'Walk The Line' Skipped Over Johnny Cash Killing Like 50 Endangered Condors

  No one can say that Walk the Line makes Johnny Cash look perfect, but it does ignore the fact that Cash once almost drove an entire species of birds to extinction. In the summer of 1965, after a particularly toxic fight with his then-wife Vivian, the troubled singer drove a camper to Los Padres National Forest in California with his nephew, Damon Fielder.

  Unfortunately, Cash, who was high on amphetamines at the time, accidentally ignited some underbrush while trying to start a campfire and - oopsie daisy - burned three entire mountains of forested area. When informed by a judge later on that his actions had wiped out 49 of the area's 53 endangered condors, he quipped: "I don't care about your damn yellow buzzards." Swoon!

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