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In the past few years, I’ve spent a lot of time complaining about movies based on true events that played fast and loose with those events, ignoring facts that don’t fit into the dramatic structure or inventing characters and incidents. Of course, there’s a reason why filmmakers do that: They’re trying to make the movie more interesting. Whether pleasing an audience is worth what some might call lying to them is an open debate, but there’s no denying that audiences are much more likely to come see a movie if you pump up the entertainment factor.