Top 30 Movies That Left Out the Real Horrific Ending
Sometimes reality is the real horror! Welcome to Watchmojo, and today we’ll be looking at the Top 30 films that were based on true stories but left out key factual details that would have made their conclusions even more depressing. Our countdown includes movies “Erin Brockovich”, “The Greatest Showman”, “The Greatest Showman” and more! Which of these endings did you expect to see in the film? Let us know in the comments!
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God bless you for telling the truth about Pocahontas. I am sick to my eyeteeth of hearing the lies they're teaching kids in school these days.
"The Land Before Time" surprisingly left out the complete extinction of Dinosaurs.
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Wasn't that shown in part 21? My son had the first 14 films on video, many years ago.
My fave was Ducky!
@samanthafairweather9186, it's sad what happened to the original Ducky voice actress, Judith Barsi.
My uncle was a British prisoner in Burma who worked on the bridge. He confirmed to us that they did sabotage it, and, when he was released at the end of the war, instead of going back to England, they were sent to Western Canada and put on trains back to Eastern Canada, so that they could gain weight, as they did not want the relatives to see them in such poor condition. They looked like prisoners from the German Death Camps that were liberated.
@bcaza27 -😥
Australian troops were "fattened up" before they let their families see them, too. I cannot even begin to imagine the horrors they endured.
I visited the bridge over the Kwai river in 1991. There was a museum dedicated to the POWs and civilians who died there. A sobering and horrific place. I then watched the movie when I returned to the US, and was utterly disgusted. The movie implies that a stiff upper lip would keep the POWs safe, and that they spent their days swimming and romping in the river. Cholera, beatings, and starvation are ignored. That movie dishonored every person who suffered or died building the Burmese railroad.
@@Zaft_K My uncle hated that movie for that reason. When I went to Hollywood and was touring the studio, they had pictures of Best Picture and asked if anyone could name any. I pointed to that one and said what the movie was. The guide told me I was correct, which I replied, "Biggest Piece of Bullshit In Movie History!" The guide then said, "Moving Along...."
Not to excuse the movies exclusion of the horrors which the POW’s were exposed to but back in 1957 the constitution of audiences was considered much more frail than today. Therefore they often omitted or lessened the horrors of the real life events on which films were based.
Into the Wild is a glorification of idiocy
Agreed. McCandless was a mentally and emotionally imbalanced man who was raised in well-off white privilege, who likely committed several petty thefts and break-ins to finance his supposedly "great journey". He knew nothing aboit hunting, camping, survival in rough terrain and conditions, yet he rejected the seasoned advice of at least one Alaskan who suspected that McCandless was so poorly supplied and inexperienced that he was under the shadow of an imminent tragedy - all as the result of McCandless' own egotism.
It would be more accurate to say it's a story of our awful mental health care.
@valkyriehutton4556... I read the book (long before the movie and became truly "glorified") and don't think he had a mental problem.
@@valkyriehutton4556 His family was quite wealthy, iirc, and he was raised as a child of privilege. From what I've read about his final disaster, that was a significant part of his problems.
@@dcarr-kr7hk I tend to agree in that he wasn't mentally ill, he appeared to have at least one personality disorder. He was living in a self-centered fantasy in his head, didn't care about how his actions affected others (hence his stealing to support his wanderings), and thought he knew more about surviving in Alaska than the local residents.
One thing to remember, these were not documentaries, they were movies.
I suppose that is why the video is names "Top 30 Movies That Left Out the Real Horrific Ending" - and not "Top 30 Documentaries That Left Out the Real Horrific Ending"
Absolutely BUT... way too many people take Hollywood's 'facts' as the truth and don't delve further into what really happened.
The moral of the story: You might appreciate the tale, but don't rely on Hollywood for your history learning.
Instead, use it as a jumping off point to delve deeper into the true events.
Really? I thought it was that unlike the movies, reality doesn’t care about your feelings.
Most of these endings are years later and not relevant to the movie. My Friend Dahmer isnt really even about Dahmer. It's from his classmates POV.
Why would you? That's moronic.
@@katieoberst490well said.
To be fair Chris McCandless’s sister has been giving talks to schools that read Into the Wild for years, and she is very careful to explain why her brother should not be viewed as a hero or martyr and that no one should attempt to copy his behavior in Alaska. She also points out how he was just two miles away from help when he died on the bus. She also describes in detail how she has suffered severe depression since the loss of her older brother. Sean Penn twisted the story in the film, and it’s tragic as the reality of the story is about loss and a kid who didn’t realize how his sister would miss him for the rest of her life.
His sister wasnt there so she can only surmise. Just like biopics that rose colored glasses reality, so do family
And you think that his sister saying they shouldn't copy his brother, would make them stop for some reason? It would probably spur them on ebe
@@taroka1119 Unclear who you’re criticizing here. She’s absolutely correct that had McCandless simply bought a common topographic map he would have easily walked out and not been trapped in the bus. The man was foolish and it cost him his life.
Sooo... the main take-away is how his sister, in her consequent depression, can only eke out a 'comfortable' living by touring her brother's tragedy. *She* was the victim. Got it. Hollywood and social media totally rockin' it. Forever.
@@timapple6586 Nice how you can dismiss the trauma that the death of a loved one causes....pretty callous. There are a lot of people who hold up Chris McCandless as some kind of martyr and they attack anyone who doesn't share that opinion. That makes it especially difficult for the family - don't be one of those people.
The Romance of Sui a d Tang has Mulan’s story end with her killing herself, but The Ballad of Mulan, which predates The Romance of Sui and Tang by ***CENTURIES*** ends with her returning home and comrades showing up to visit her, only to be surprised by the fact that their friend is a woman. So, no. Mulan’s story doesn’t have a tragic ending.
well then it has 2 versions as it's not a real story
The fact that something predates something by centuries doesn't make it truer or the truth. Something can came LATER and be actually the truth.
Yeah, he basically said there was more than one tale, and that in one, she killed herself, so this comment is moot.
@twitteringothers5059 More likely the earlier thing is closer to the truth. Human memory is startlingly inaccurate. Especially generations later.
I was going to say this also.
The McCandless thing is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. “A guy hiked to a bus, got stuck and starved to death… let’s go do that.” 🙄
Some people are that stupid. 😂
I think I heard about that!
I learned about it from MrBallen
I knew a guy who idolized mccandless. He sent me texts claiming he was homeless on the coldest day of the year and sleeping in a mosuleum. I called his mom to get him help, and she said he was fine in his bedroom 💀
He ate a poisonous plant that only hurts healthy young males. The Nazi’s did tests on this exact plant and it takes weeks to starve you to death.
‘12 Years A Slave’ leaves me with the worst feeling. I feel so sorry for the family losing him again and not knowing what happened.
Couldn't agree more.
Couldn't agree more.
Couldn't agree more.
It was probably because he told his story. The slave owners would've wanted to shut him up. Such a sad story, and even sadder ending.
@@samanthafairweather9186 good point.
I knew that Anastasia and her family didn’t live happily ever after. They were shot violently in a Quentin Tarantino style execution.
Worse than that. The girls were wearing thick jewels in their corsets. They were brutally shot in a first pass, but survived due to the ornate dresses. So they heard the rest of their family gunned down but too injured to move. One of them started screaming and the attackers heard her. They were shot again and obliterated
I heard the whole ordeal lasted almost half an hour, so it was more like again and again until the deed was done.@@Sate12
In every English-language movie on the subject, her name is always pronounced a-na-STAY-zhia. It should actually be pronounced ah-nah-STAHSS-ya.
Smoke was pretty thick as well.
Sound of Music one isn't really "horrifying". The family escaped. The house was just a building.
What is more terrible is that the Trapp children were given the worst beatings and had to endure humiliation. And Maria von Trapp was downright proud of her educational measures.
@@schattigerKeks not at all the children weren't beaten, maria von trapp might've been prone to angry outbursts but she didn't beat the children. the children were the reason that she married georg von trapp who was not a strict disciplinarian but a gentle loving father
@@suryamgangwal8315 She wrote about beating them and was convinced beating children was the right thing to do as an educational measure.
Captain Von Trapp was criticized by his fellow naval officers for being too nice, too easygoing, with his subordinates. Though they apparently loved him for it, and were willing to do anything for him. And the Von Trapps did not escape from Austria by hiking into the mountains, they actually took a train to Italy, where they boarded a passenger ship to Britain. As many people have observed, had the family actually gone into the mountains near where they lived, they would have come down in Germany, not Switzerland, and they would have been not too terribly far from Adolf Hitler's personal headquarters Berchtesgaden, where they would have been quickly found and arrested.
The youngest daughter did not escape. She died crossing the mountain.
one thing u missed about Erin Brockovich , the people didn't get their money. The main lawyer embezzled their money. Most of them still haven't been paid.
He did embezzle money, but from an entirely different case. It's still not OK, but has nothing to do with the victims in Hinkley. The money he embezzled was from an airline case from 2018
@@kerrysater157I’m sure he is not a stranger to embezzlement.
Exactly what I was going to say, one of the lawyers involved went on to steal millions from victims, including the orphans and widows from the Malaysian flight. Apparently the money was mostly spent to support one of those Real Housewives fake music career. So as far as I know they didn't say these people's money was stolen but with that guy it's very likely
That's shocking. /s Albert Finney may have played a sanitized version of Chuck Ebersole, but he still doesn't exactly give off a "you can trust me" vibe.
Not true.
The Von Trapp's house in Austria may have been used badly after they left, but they made it all the way to Vermont where they bought a farm and made a wonderful home (which has now become the Von Trapp hotel and ski lodge just outside Stowe (a gorgeous place I've visited many times)).
They obviously santised the film version of PT Barnum, because then the audience would fail to sympathise with him. Plus, not even Hugh Jackman's charisma could make us root for him.
They really did. The fact that he was a slave owner makes it 10 times worse in addition to exploiting his top talent.
It's so different from the actual story I just enjoy it for being a good musical.
That's fine, but the problem is that PT Barnum wasn't a good person in real life. He was a slave owner and exploited his top talent for financial gain. The Greatest Showman reminds me of someone on a website that I use very frequently making musical comedies based on serial killers, pedophilies, school shootings, and other high-profile criminal cases.
@kamsismith you've never heard of sweat shops or Cobalt mines huh? That stuff exists and they are paid pennies on a dollar
I'm aware of that. You don't need to remind me.
Several Disney films have the hero's or heroines survive when they died in the original stories. Ariel ( the little mermaid) dies in the original story.
I’d have preferred that ending. While Disney movies are known for their happy conclusions, no matter how dark the story or source material is, I want a movie from The House of Mouse whose ending is more tragic than comedic.
There's an anime film where she dies.
Didn't her new legs burn like glass or something, too?
Yes, she felt like knives cutting her feet every step she took. You gotta love the old fairy tales.@@cijmo
The original story is my favorite version.
"The Iron Claw": The movie left out an entire brother. The Von Erich family had 6 boys, not 5. Chris Von Erich was another member of the family who tried to become a wrestler and wound up killing himself. The makers of the film thought the movie was sad enough without yet another suicide, so he was left out.
I was so disappointed in Iron Claw. As a non-fan of biopics I saw the trailers and, knowing their story, I though this might be the one that gives it to us straight because it's one of those "you just can't make this shit up" things. Between leaving the kid out, the time jumps like changing when Kerry's accident happened, who found Kerry's body and when, the heavy handed death dream/hallucination, it just left a bad taste in my mouth.
@@paulcarr5918 I did like it despite the timeline juggling, but it was hard for me to accept the omission of Chris. He seemed too important to leave out.
@@sailorhathor9705When did they talk about “The Iron Claw” in this video? I dont recall them talking about it at all. When was it mentioned?
@@Keyser___Soze WatchMojo asked us to comment about other movies that left out the real horrific ending, so I did. "Iron Claw" was not mentioned in this video, but I thought it might be.
Im a pro wrestling fan but not really of the von erichs, glad I skipped it
In the older version of "Sleeping Beauty," it was one of her non-consensually conceived twins sucking on her finger and removing the splinter of flax that caused the sleep.
So she had a poison baby, Why didnt she fall asleep when she breastfed it?
Not a tragedy but something amusing: I went to a mini Titanic exhibition in my town. Turned out Molly Brown (Kathy Bates) was a real woman and a force to be reckoned with. She aided with helping people onto the life boats, she helped row a boat, and she did try to get the boat turned around but when the guy in charge said no she threatened to throw him overboard. Also after being rescued she brought together other 1st class passengers to help the 2nd and 3rd passengers to get basic necessities.
Her home in DENVER is definitely worth a tour. She was a fascinating woman.
She was a big philanthropist in her adopted hometown of Denver, too.
And she gained the name, “ The unsinkable Molly Brown”.
Yeah, they did her dirty in the film.
Honestly I was DREADING the end of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Like I even had my hands halfway over my face when I knew the film had reached the night of, and the Mansons were on that street. Knowing Tarantino’s use of brutal violence, I knew it was gonna be brutal too. And he even genuinely made you love Tate even more with the innocent and lovely scenes earlier. I just seriously didn’t want to see her go through what she did… And then Tarantino upper-cuts with THAT. Fuckin. Ending. 🤣 I was legit screaming and cheering with laughter. I can seriously see why Tate’s family approved the script. That was honestly the most beautiful homage to a beautiful soul gone too horribly soon. I legit cried at the end when I heard her voice through the gate-speaker. ❤️
As I was going out of the theater the usher said ‘wasn’t that a great movie?” And I answered if only life had been like that. We both sadly nodded at that.
Doesn't deserve to be on this list. If it does, so does Inglorious Basterds...
They pulled out the fetus and stuck a watermelon in her ... good times... I hate to say it, Mescaline being my favorite drug; but they were given large doses (over 1 gram) of Mescaline Sulfate; Not LSD, it only takes one gram of Mescaline Sulfate to make one clinically psychotic according to medical texts... so stick with the normal 400-500mg dose please.
I have to admit that I was laughing at the ending as well having known a bit about what really happened.
Wait you're glorifying Sharon Tate? Lol there are a lot of wild takes online, but that's a new one
The way you frame the story about Dieter Dengler is a little misleading. Dieter lived to be 62 years old (30+ years after Vietnam) but was diagnosed at 61 with ALS. He felt himself losing his faculties and he didn't want to live that way, so he rolled his wheelchair down the street to a fire station and shot himself. ALS killed Dieter.
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German fairytales and nursery rhymes are pretty gruesome too.
Grim
A Beautiful Mind didn't just leave out a "real horrific ending"; it was largely fiction, and not just for dramatic effect like turning his schizophrenic delusions into an "imaginary friend." It is told as a love story in which the couple overcomes his illness. The reality included Nash fathering a child that he largely denied, then years later having a child with his wife Alicia... whom he gave the same name as his first child! (Sadly, the 2nd child inherited his father's schizophrenia.) The film makes the marriage seem like they were made for one another, but they were only married from 1957 to 1963. He eventually lived as a boarder in Alicia's home, but they didn't resume their relationship until sometime in the '90s. They remarried in 2001, not that the film even hints at this, never mind all the evidence of his homosexual activities that cost him his security clearance. Also, there is no "acceptance speech" at the Nobel Prize ceremony. The winners present a lecture to the attendees. Incidentally, John Nash had been divorced from Alicia for decades when he was awarded the prize. They didn't remarry until 7 years after that!
Wait… The Big Bang Theory lied to us about a Nobel Prize acceptance speech? How dare they?!
The Dieter Dengler story is exaggerated. He might have committed suicide from ALS, but he had a very productive life after the war and even crashed a few more planes in the interim, and survived those crashes also. He also survived three marriages and had kids. The dude had an amazing life. This is a gross oversimplification.
I'm happy to know, Sharon Tate survived in Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. But in real life, she was murdered. Sadly.
Yeah i honestly feel like it made the ending quite sad. Because it implies the life and future she would have had
@@olivialeezeh8076 I don’t see nothing sad about that ending. I enjoyed the movie.
@@abellewis3062 just bc its sad doesnt mean it wasnt enjoyable?? I liked the movie too lol
@@olivialeezeh8076 It wasn't sad to me. But okay.
@@abellewis3062 we can have different opinions on the emotions we felt but you were implying i didnt like the ending or the movie. I can find something sad enjoyable as well lol
Forgot Desmond Doss (played by Andrew Garfield) who spent the rest of his life with significant permanent injuries.
There are 3 versions of the Mulan legend.....Tang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty.....the suicide is only in the Qing version......the Disney movie is closer to the Ming version.
In the same vein of billing the violinist, the coroner that performed the autopsy of Buddy Holly charged Holly for the autopsy, taking the fee from the money Holly had on him at the time of the crash.
What the actual fuck?!! That's SO disgusting!! Same with the scummy company that billed that poor man for his son "ruining the uniform"! They should've billed White Star Liners!
That's absolutely APPALLING !! 😢😠
lots of dead people are robbed by , I don't want to say 1st responders but certainly someone along the line. My mom and aunt both were stripped of their jewerly post mortem
He may have died six months later but he died a free man.
a human
You forgot to mention nashs son who had the same illness. Put in a group home and abused for years to almost coming to death and saved by his aunt
I wonder if my history teacher got the "this is not a democracy" line from _Remember the Titans?_ 🤔 Cool Story Bro™ warning: I graduated from a small Christian school in 2003, and we had our history teacher for three different years between grades 7-12 so we all had a really great relationship with her. In that time there were a few infamous instances where we had started bitching about something she said we had to do for class, and to shut us up she slammed her hands down on her podium at the front of the room and dramatically bellowed, _"THIS IS NOT A DEMOCRACY!! This is a DICTATORSHIP, and you are the PEASANTS!!!"_ Especially fitting since some of the classes she taught were US History and Government/Economics. lol By the time we were seniors, it had become a Thing that whenever we were happy about something she said, we'd say, _"And the peasants rejoiced!!"_ It was such a prominent Thing for our class year that at the end of the year I made a foam core sign with _"And the peasants rejoiced!"_ in old English script, and the entire senior class signed the back of it. We gave it to her on the last day of class, and she just about cried. She could also sing, and at graduation that year when she took the mic to sing for the ceremony she tearfully looked at all of us and said, "I'm really going to miss you guys."🥺 The last time I saw her in person before she retired and moved out of state was when I came back to the school about 8 years after graduating to visit with some of my favorite teachers and when I went into her room, she _still_ had that sign hanging behind her desk and she told me that we had been one of her favorite class years that she had ever had in her entire 40+ year career. 🥹 It's funny how a single quote like that can bring back so much. Sorry if that was boring, but to be fair I DID warn you.
What an awesome story! Thanks for sharing it with us! 😊
My senior class made our history teacher cry too... but that was bc they were terrible people. It was the day of evaluation and my class purposely acted terrible so she would fail, despite knowing how important it was for her job and then to add even more salt to the wound, when she went to go walk the evaluator out, they locked her outside and laughed when she finally got back in and was balling her eyes out worried that she was about to lose her job. She was sweet old lady. I didn't understand how people could be so cruel.
@@tieroberson oh man that was so mean. 😞
@Kaemea I almost cried that day too.
Little Mermaid ?? In the original fairy tale she died and transformed into sea foam
The ones like Schindler's List and Sound of Music don't really belong here because the movies ended long before the rest of the history mentioned. After the Trapp family left Austria (they took the train), that really was the end of that history. After that, it was the house's history and, while horrid, was not about the family. Schindler...I'm trying to remember, I toured the factory, I don't recall that he was ever a successful businessman. He had the gift of BS and that's what worked. Anyway, again, the movie ended before his escape and his ending wasn't "terrible", he just went back to selling chickens like he'd done as a kid.
What was horrible with Oscars Schindler's real ending was that he got ptsd and died of a stress related hearth attack in 1974, six years before ptsd was acknowledged in 1980.
The real life aftermath of Alive reminded me of a Kids in the Hall sketch where a guy was on trial for doing the same thing. Except he went cannibal doing a flight delay.
That was the funniest skit ever!!
The archbishop in their home country issued a pastoral letter asking people not to attack the young men for what they were forced to do.
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"You are the sole survivor of a 35-minute flight delay! You ate 112 of your fellow passengers! You could have eaten just one, but no, you ate a little bit of each passenger!"
The Von Trapps actually enigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland and became the Trapp Family Singers.
The Frog Prince - the princess was a spoiled girl who doesn't keep her promise, lies to and disobeyes her father, and pbysically abuses the frog. The frog turned into a prince when she hurled him against the wall with so much power that the magic was knocked out of him.
I saw that in a JonSolo video. I kinda laughed. I laughed also with one of the dudes carrying Snow Whites body around got sick and tired of it. He opened the glass coffin just to smack her for it. Hit her hard enough that the poisoned apple dislodged from her throat and she woke up. I lmbo
The one from 12 Years a Slave was so insanely horrific I was about to write my congressmen if it wasn't included
"Birth of a Nation" was NOT the first blockbuster ever produced. That title could go to several movies produced before "Birth" showed up, like "Calibiri" in 1914, "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903, and several more.
Plus, at this point it's pretty common knowledge that it was just a propaganda film.
Woodrow Wilson adored Birth of a Nation, had it screened numerous times at the White House, and believed in its crap wholeheartedly. Which just goes to show that even a brillant academic like Wilson (formerly in charge of Princeton University) isn't necessarily all that bright.
You could have just titled this "Movies aren't real life."
The Revant's real ending is almost just as badass
31:10 She was also somewhere between 14 and 15 when she met John Smith
Fact
A film "based" on real life or a true story is not the same as a documentary. Those films are focused to entertain; a documentary is focused on the truth of what happened. It's important to know the difference.
Yes and no. But you remind me of the movie Insignificance where Marilyn Monroe hangs out with Albert Einstein. I don't think that ever happened. But how do you copyright a historical name? [...other than the vague disclaimer that 'No horses were harmed in the making of this movie'.]
One of the bitterest lessons in early life is that the movies are just fantasy and the real story reveals your heroes as monsters. Those who make movies don't want you leaving with a bad taste, they want you feeling uplifted.
Just a quick side on oskar schindler. To say he didn't prosper is a degredation to his name. Life isn't about financial propertity...he saw this...he did something about it...and he saved countless lives. He was plenty prosperous in my eyes.
That isnt the definition of prosperous
@@marcweidler3260Right. You can't just change the definition of a word and say that he fits the definition now. You could argue that he was successful, but not prosperous.
He deserved to live a rich and comfortable life. Let's just agree on that.
As I myself am American Indian, this is the insight I can provide into the true life story of Pocahontas- First off, when John Smith originally came to the Americas he was already on thin ice with the English governing body. He was a savage man who basically got himself near-exiled to the Americas because they didn't know what to do with him otherwise. So, what does he do shortly after landing? Causes more chaos. Second, Pocahontas was 12 when John Smith raped her repeatedly over 4 days of which he had kidnapped her from a field because he was attempting to "Show the savages" who was in charge. Pocahontas' father was so enraged by this he gathered the people he had and went looking for John Smith to give him some old-fashion justice. Third, so sick of John Smith were the settlers AND the government that they refused to do anything for him and basically held up neon signs of where the tribe could find John. So, John, upon finding he had no allies anywhere, kidnapped Pocahontas and brought her to the fort where the main governing body of the English in the area lived, and basically lied to get inside saying Pocahontas was his wife. Fourth, it wasn't a year, it was two. One year he lied and basically forced her father to prove she was his daughter, then tried lying to make everyone continue to believe this (Now) 13 year old girl was his Wife, but since the original settlers were hardcore quaker-types, they would not have allowed John Smith to marry Pocahontas without her first being baptized, of which they would have had a record of sorts. When none was found, he was called out on his BS, but by this point Pocahontas' father was so irate he was about to burn down the whole fort and the surrounding settlements if they refused to give her back. Then came a year long negotiation, where the English governing body agreed to exile John Smith permanently in all forms from the Americas under penalty of death by being drawn and quartered, and they would leave the surrounding settlements alone. The bargain was struck and (surprisingly) kept by both sides. John Smith never again came back to the Americas. Fifth, Pocahontas was NOT willingly married to her husband, and it didn't happen in the Americas. Again, the settlers who were in the Americas viewed my people as Filthy, Dirty, Sinful creatures, and would not have allowed her marriage without a baptism. It was a sort of trade-off. The English said they wanted to have some of our people in their home territory, to see us up close, so that we could better integrate with one another. She was then disallowed to return home, used as propaganda (As said in the video), and then to avoid her stalker (Literally John F-ing Smith) who was sending her love letters and basically terrorizing her, she married an Englishman to keep herself safe. He was a tobacco farmer, but he was an Enterpriser, he didn't live on the land, he just built the farm and sold the tobacco. Sixth, her death was likely stress-related as she suffered from consistent fainting spells after her time with John Smith when confronted with extremely harrowing situations. A theory my people have had is she died of acute heart failure due to severe anxiety disorders. Likely, though, is she died of some disease that the English had that my people didn't, and it presented harsher and deadlier since she had no defense for it and passed away. As well, it is odd that she and John Smith both died of unknown illnesses. If you want my theory, they both died of HPV or HPV complications. It makes the most sense to me since women develop cancer from HPV easier than men do, and it can take YEARS for cancer to kill you (If you're "Unlucky"), plus it can take upwards of 2 years for a woman's body to completely clear the HPV virus from their body, so there's also increased time factor from that. Seventh, and lastly, Pocahontas did NOT SAVE JOHN SMITH at any point in time. She literally saved the other settlers by reminding her father that our people do not blame a whole clan for one mans' wrongdoing, and didn't want to see everyone else be slaughtered just to kill the one person who deserved it. Her father not only humored her, but commended her on her foresight and merciful nature, especially after what she'd endured. So, no, Pocahontas didn't save him. She basically said: "Hey, just kill him, not everyone. They didn't kidnap me, they didn't rape me or hold me hostage, he did." To which her father agreed, and so did the Englishmen in the fort, and when John Smith begged for his life the aforementioned bargain was struck. As a child I loved the Disney movie Pocahontas, and it was pushed by my maternal grandparents (Who're Very white and were racist beyond belief for the first 20 years of my life) for me to watch and internalize. Having grown up, that movie is seared into my brain as the most disgusting whitewash I personally know of. Lastly, the best way I know to honor her truly is with these: Her name was not Pocahontas, and certainly not Rebecca. Her name IS Amonute Matoaka. Okwáho ukwehu·wé niwakiˀtaló·tɅ sa·unheˀuwe at·kahwa·tsíleˀ. I am Oneida Wolf Clan, you live forever in family. (Yes, my syntax is not the best, but out language is hard.)
Excellent comment, thank you. Greetings from Ireland 🇮🇪
Thank you for sharing her name! I also had no idea that she had prevented multiple deaths. It baffles me completely that Disney chose to create an entire new bad guy, just so they could turn Johnny boy into a hunk. Like......wouldn't the real story be way cooler (albeit sanitized as only Disney know how)? Seriously she saved an entire settlement! Apologies for the ramble; American - and specifically Indigenous American - history is very much not part of my general knowledge. Love from South Africa
You should do a whole video on this. I'd share it
Yeah learning that most of the colonizers were considered savages by both indiginous tribes, and their own countries, is pretty on point. I remember reading about Columbus mutilating his own men for wanting to make talk with indiginous peoples. By the time he was dead, he was remembered as an evil moron by his own people.
I'd put on this list The Iron Claw as one of the TOP3. The movie is tragic and I bawl my eyes out at the cinema but when I read about the family von Erich the real story, everything what was modified and omitted, my jaw literally drop because I didn't expect this story to be way more tragic and heartbreaking.
The Brando character didn't defeat the union crooks in the real-life ON THE WATERFRONT. The Unsinkable Molly Brown didn't get back together with her husband.
Those are good examples. The whole reason for On the Waterfront getting made was as a defensive rationale for Elia Kazan quite enthusiastically testifying as a friendly witness against a number of his colleagues in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Peter Pan is cursed. The namesake took his own life, the voice actor died penniless and homeless
To be fair, that's not a curse. It's just shit things happening.
Pfff, well nothing bad ever happened to the guy that played him in Hook!
I am a descendant of Pocahontas. I find it interesting that more people don't know her father's name. It was Chief Sonacock. Don't believe me, look it up.
Thank you for sharing this information!
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“You’re more horrible than Megan Fox’s acting in Transformers!” Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock died before she was even born, what are you talking about?
@@georgiewatson8688 it’s an ERB line.
@@georgiewatson8688 it’s from epic rap battles of history
I'm still non-the-wiser so i'll google it but thank you for clarifying ☺️
"It's all about MOTHER F CK'N MONEY!" Micheal Bay
Pain and Gain as the people who were featured in the movie suffered from serious trauma from the events depicted in the movie in real life.
That's an excellent example, they should have included it as an Honourable Mention.
As much as I enjoyed the movie, the real story was messed up. Similar to Wolf of Wall Street, I get that the movie is a dark comedy and I like dark comedies depending on how well they're executed. The issue that I had was that it made a joke out of murder, attempted murder, and kidnapping.
In other words Hollywood basically sugar-coated the ending so instead of a sad ending they had a happy ending
What do you expect? Real life is never the movies and the movies are never real life
Wouldn’t be entertainment then. Just truth and most people don’t go to movies for that. They want to be in a little fantasy for a little while and forget real life.
The second Pocahontas movie showed a little more of the story, about meeting John Rolf and going to England and appearing as a ‘ spectacle’ but that’s about the only realism.
ALS = amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease" for the famous ball player who came down with and died from it.
Thanks for meaningful and valuable video as always ❤❤❤
This was excellent viewing. A couple of these are on my all time fave list. More like this, please MoJo!
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN didn't so much leave out an aftermath as not even mention that some of the action was concurrent with the Civil War and the race murders during the Draft Riots (which might have some relevance to the non-white characters) What happened to Jeffrey Dahmer and Howard Hughes was presumably so well known that it didn't have to be depicted. Likewise, the Burma Railway atrocities were so well known (less so that most of the victims were Asian), especially nearer the events back in 1957, that they didn't have to be touched upon. You can't count ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, which depicted an alternative history where the famous murders didn't happen, otherwise your biggest candidate for inclusion would be INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS, where millions more deaths were required in the real world to bring down Hitler. The 'unhappy' bits you describe in SCHINDLER'S LIST were very small potatoes compared to what went on in the period covered by the movie; some have claimed that it's too cheerful a movie because fifteen million people didn't survive the Holocaust.
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood glosses over the fact that that the Manson murder cult actually had no intention of targeting Sharon Tate (and her hairdresser and ex-boyfriend Jay Sebring). Manson himself used to be a Los Angeles drug dealer, and Dennis Wilson used to be one of his customers. Wilson would invite Manson to come watch his band, the Beach Boys, as they were recording an album, and Manson kept pestering their producer Terry Melcher (son of Doris Day) to listen to some country-western songs he'd written, because he had dreams of becoming the next Hank Williams. Melcher fobbed him off repeatedly, and said he'd get in touch with Manson "sometime soon" to listen to his songs after he finished the Beach Boys album. Time passed, and when "sometime soon" never happened, a furious Manson sent his collection of idiots and losers around to murder him. But by then Melcher was spending time in Europe, and had sublet his Los Angeles house to Roman Polanski and his wife Sharon Tate. Roman was away in London at the time, and Tate and Sebring just had some very bad luck.
No surprise that some of the Disney movies are on this list because the story of the real thing is depressing but hey I prefer the happy ending of the movie
I was just gonna say, Disney movies really shouldn't count. Of COURSE they have happy endings...they're movies for children 🤣 ETA: I'm still happy all these movies were made.. I've enjoyed so many Disney movies in my life. I just don't think they should be included on this list lbvs
And raccoons don't do musicals.
You are obviously superficial and lack depth.
What about Bloodsport, 1988. Frank Dux story was debunked and he is now considered a liar.
The guy from American sniper too. Chris Kyle.
My favorite part of Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood is when Charles Watson got his private area bitten by a dog, I was enjoying that scene. Amen.
*Charles Manson
@@karawardlaw4090No it was Charles "Tex" Watson.
That's what makes dogs "man's best friend".
@@Dr.Thirteen-bb1ub Don't do that on my comment. I know who that man is.
@@user-mg5mv2tn8q Amen.
The Aviator included everything you mentioned, even Hughes’ massive weight loss, thanks to the brilliant Leonardo di Caprio. Should have won an Oscar for it.
They were going to give him the Oscar, but ultimately decided his voice was "almost as annoying as an Adam Sandler movie" and passed him.
Thank you for the update, WatchMojo..!! The worst of the worst horrifying ending of all time for me was a Polish movie called Warsaw 44 (2014). Another one was Volhynia (2016). They were both based on the true story.
ENCORE! 👏 ENCORE! 👏 Bring on part 2. I'm sure you can find more lol
For fictional book endings. I am Legend! The plot and ending are opposite of the movie. The book is 100 times better! 😊
They shot an alternate ending for the movie, where will Smith sacrifices himself, is that what you're referring to
American Sniper. the movie left out the tragic end of Chris Kyle being murder by a mental guy. there might of been an end credits post saying what happen. probably why its not on this list since it states what actually occurred
That is in the movie
Kyle was a liar too. The Jesse Ventura altercation never happened.
Cool video. The narrator's voice sounds like Richard Dreyfuss 🤗
Mojo the movie you should rip apart is The Blindside as the reality of what that family did to a vulnerable minor vs the ridiculous film version needs every bit of attention it can get…
THIS
They didn't do anything to him. They helped him get to the NFL and treated him like their own son and he stabbed them in the back and tried to drag their name through the mud. Typical of the spoiled pro football player
well considering the timeline between Rasputin getting killed and the Tsar being overthrown I would probably be looking too deep if there is some merit to the possibility of Rasputin really causing a curse as he really was ghosted by the family Disney wouldn't have DARED to show Pocahontas dying
"Hotel Rwanda" should make this list
Oh no. Why? What happened?
Quite a number of the women sheltered by Paul Rusesabagina subsequently reported that he confiscated any and all belongings they managed to bring to the hotel with them as "rent", and that he was verbally, emotionally, physically, and sexually abusive toward them, constantly threatening to turn them out to be killed if they did not submit to him.
Hotel Rwanda is a disgrace the way they completely neutered the story
All this reminded me of is the fact Christian Bale kills every role he's in
As far as the Disney animated movies goes, nobody wants to take their chillins to what looks like a feel good movie only to for it to have a depressing or horrifying ending. That said, does anyone else want to see Disney make traditionally animated films again, instead of strictly computer animated movies?
YES!!!!!! PLEASE, DISNEY!!!!! Make classic animation again!!!!!
@@katieoberst490 I'm glad I'm not the only one. The last classic animation film they did was, as far as I know of is THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG, from somewhere around 2008-2010.
@@mrtelevision CRAP! I HATE WHEN I DO THAT. Thanks for pointing that out. Fixed it now.
I'd love an ending to those stories that actually fits tradition. If you bring your kids that's your own problem for thinking faerie tales are for kids and 'for kids' means 'dumbed down.'
If you're going to have a Disney movie based on a fictional tale, it should've been The Hunchback of Notre Dame rather than sleeping beauty imo. That's gotta be the bleakest ending to any book I've ever read
Some of these tragic details would not have served the narrative. The movie itself only tells the story of a specific period of event, so the detail mentioned would have been an unnecessary addendum. I feel like the firing of the coach from Remember the Titans is one of these details.
I think one of movies' most horrific endings that was left out is in Life, when the Martian creature makes it to earth as the movie ends
Her name was Matoaka & Amonute in private. With Pocahontas only being a nickname. She was the first MMIW.
That we know of.
How could being the name for Peter pan a character in a fake story be so hard to deal with that it causes life struggles
@user-my6tn8wc6f... I wondered the same thing. 🤔
Ask Christopher Robins. Look up his story and how Winnie the Pooh impacted his life.
Soldiers in the air force or naval air forces are called "airmen", "flyers", "aviators"...
Unbroken he found God don’t leave that out now
I thought we were going to mention Baron Von Trapp's death from lung cancer.
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood shouldn't even be on this list.
“Bridge on the River Kwai” is a satirical novel written by a Frenchman. The movie was based on the novel, not history.
Russell Crowe's facial warts form a perfect triangle.
I am born in Alaska. I was raised on the other side of the mountains from where McCandless died. Every time this movie is mentioned I come to the comments to beg people not to be as foolish as he was. Alaska is a wild land that has no mercy and suffers no fools. If you do not have the skills before you go into the wild, you are more likely to die than to learn them in time to save yourself. I have been winter camping every year since I was a child. I have years and years of experience. Every bit of it reinforces there is no learning curve. It is pass fail. If you really want to do the wilderness thing in the arctic (I'll throw the net wide and encompass them all. I'm sure Canada, Russia, and the other arctic country are the same), and don't have survival skills, get them or keep it as a someday dream till you do. It's a bad end otherwise.
with Oskar Schindler, I think that even though he ended up penniless,he was far richer in spirit, money is'nt everything
"On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero"
Really sad stories. I know original story of Ariel. I'm glad they changed the story of Ariel,Pocahontas,Mulan. We knew about Anastasia.It's awful about Barnum. Shame about Erin Brockovich. I'm glad Sharon Tate survived in the movie. And all victims. 12 years slave is really sad. Good video
I dunno, I feel like being a bit more honest about what happened to the native Americans would be good for kids, and the Little Mermaid's ending is a pretty good look at why love at first sight can be a bad idea.
@@MySerpentine i agree. Kids should know what happened to native Americans. I agree love at first sight is bad idea.Unrealistic expectations
@@Gor85 Then they shouldn't have changed Pocahontas or Ariel, should they have?
@@MySerpentine I like it how it is. I was speaking generally. It's ok to tell kids what happened to Natives.Biggest Holocaust in history. And Ariel ending. Extremely dark
I was at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks a few months ago and walked through the museum it was cool but the bus exhibit was not open and the bus was not on display 😔
Stephen Hawking movie left out Epstein Island
The reasin he was therr was to board another boat to go to the island next to the one Epstein owned. Hawking wasnt a pedophile
There are not a lot of historical consistencies about Anastasia. The Dowager Empress also DID NOT go to Paris. She fled Russia and went first to her sister in the UK, who was the mother of King George the V. And later returned to her native Denmark, where she lived until her death in 1928. She never met any of the people who claimed to be Anastasia either.
I think they were trying to combine the stories of several other Romanov relatives that managed to flee.
@@smooshiebear80 that might be. But it’s disrespectful to the real Maria Feodorovna’s memory, to make it look like she actually met with these pretenders. And as a Dane, I would have wished they had her return to her native roots. But I guess for Hollywood it’s far more interesting to have the grandmother meet her, instead of Anastasia’s Aunt Irene, who met with Anna Andersen, and it’s a much more illustrious setting to have them go to Paris instead of Copenhagen.
@@christinaj.jensen4805 It’s a bit disrespectful to all of them not to tell the real story, quite frankly. It’s a cartoon that got a LOT of things wrong. They had to make it likable to children, so they took the fairytale route rather than the real story.
tbh if I died and my loved ones were going to starve for whatever reason, I'd want them to eat me instead of dying themselves.
Really? Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? You even acknowledge that it’s upfront about its revisionist take. Why not put the blame where it is deserved on the other Manson murders film from 2019: The Haunting of Sharon Tate?
This is why I hate movies based on real life, it’s always bullshit and a rewriting and censorship of history which does the subject matter an injustice. If you’re telling me story, tell it right or not at all! I’d rather watch fiction because at least there’s transparency there.
It's Disney, they will always charge the story to make it more kid friendly.
You mean 'change' ? 😊
These companies spend billions on studying a huge amount of branding data from market testing children's visual reactions, attention spans, character tones of voice/appearance, involvement levels, images etc.
True . But there are not so kiddy friendly these days.
I didn't know Mulan committed suicide. That information is new to me. Enough said.
Bruh you can't put my friend dhamer as an example it was about the friendship they had not about dhamer specifically
Stop the BS about Mulan, The original story ended right at the moment she returned home.
Hollywood doing Hollywood things
Pretty sure this is why the caveat *based* on a true story is added. Cheers....
Danny Nucci stayed alive in "Alive" but died in "The Rock", "Eraser" and "Titanic". But hey he got the girl (and in real life as well) in "That Old Feeling".