LordGro
Since: May, 2010
Sep 7th 2012 at 12:17:53 PM
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Removing all examples that are not about "inspired by" as a stock phrase (see the TRS
). Storing them here for the benefit of future generations.
Film
- District 9 was inspired by the real life forced removal of over 60,000 blacks from District 6 in Cape Town.
- Headless Body in Topless Bar took this to its logical conclusion: the title was Based on a True Story (a headline in The New York Post), and the rest of the plot was extrapolated from it.
- Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974, Norman Bates in Psycho, and Buffalo Bill in The Silence Of The Lambs were all loosely inspired by real life serial killer Ed Gein. Comparing and contrasting those three characters should give you an idea of exactly how loosely. (For the record, Buffalo Bill is probably closest to the real guy. Frighteningly, Leatherface is arguably closer than Bates.)
- Unstoppable was inspired by the "Crazy Eights" train incident in Ohio in 2001.
Theater
- The basic premise of M Butterfly was Ripped from the Headlines, but the playwright intentionally did little research on it, because he wanted a completely fictional play. By way of honesty, he also changed the names to protect the innocent.
Video Games
- Katawa Shoujo is inspired by a single sketch. Originally it wasn't even coloured.
Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: don't we have this?
, started by Twentington on Nov 28th 2010 at 11:42:35 PM
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman