{"id":547113,"date":"2026-04-23T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547113\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T21:26:18","slug":"the-10-biggest-lies-told-in-movie-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/547113\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 biggest lies told in movie history"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019 is a cursed film\"The<\/p>\n

The Wizard of Oz<\/a> is one of the most joyful films of all time, and it\u2019s perhaps because of its endearing appeal and imagination that it has been associated with many different conspiracy theories and dark readings. <\/a>The urban legend that an extra playing a munchkin died by suicide on set has been debunked when high definition footage revealed that this was a trick of the light, and Pink Floyd also confirmed that The Dark Side of the Moon was not intended to sync up with The Wizard of Oz, despite the insistence of fans who created The Dark Side of Oz cut.<\/a><\/p>\n

That the film is also blamed for the decline of Judy Garland is also misleading, as the late actor\u2019s death and health issues were a result of the many abuses she endured on the part of her parents and employers, which weren\u2019t exclusively tied to The Wizard of Oz.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

George Lucas planned the entire \u2018Star Wars\u2019 franchise\"Star<\/p>\n

George Lucas<\/a> was certainly a visionary who was ahead of his time in many ways, but he\u2019s also been mythologised as a genius who wrote the entire script for the Star Wars franchise years before the original film was released. Although the lack of planning out the sequel trilogy has been a sticking point among critics of Disney\u2019s run at Lucasfilm<\/a>, Lucas didn\u2019t entirely have the original films mapped out either; the twist that Leia was Luke\u2019s sister wasn\u2019t decided until Return of the Jedi was being made, as evidenced by the moment in which they kiss in The Empire Strikes Back.<\/p>\n

One of the main reasons that Lucas has made so many changes to the original trilogy in the various \u2018Special Editions\u2019 and home video releases is in order for them to become more consistent with the ideas he made up for the prequels.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Stanley Kubrick was a crazed lunatic\"Stanley<\/p>\n

Stanley Kubrick<\/a> is perhaps one of the greatest directors ever,<\/a> but his aptitude for being exacting has given him an unusual reputation among conspiracy theorists. The most prevailing conspiracy is that Kubrick was somehow involved in a ploy to fake footage of the moon landing because of how realistic he had depicted space travel a year prior in 2001: A Space Odyssey. <\/p>\n

This obviously isn\u2019t true, just as it\u2019s false that Kubrick in any way apologised for his role in a scam by including imagery of Apollo 11 in The Shining. More recently, conspirators have claimed that he had been murdered for exposing a sex trafficking ring in Eyes Wide Shut, and that his alleged \u2018true cut\u2019 was censored. In reality, Kubrick was said to be immensely satisfied with the version of Eyes Wide Shut he delivered after dying from a heart attack, which wasn\u2019t surprising for a man with serious health issues. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The sex scene in \u2018Don\u2019t Look Now\u2019 was unsimulated\"Nicolas<\/p>\n

Donald Sutherland<\/a> and Julie Christie play grieving parents in Nicolas Roeg\u2019s terrifying horror classic Don\u2019t Look Now, which features one of the greatest sex scenes in cinema. The scene was so graphic that it led to a theory that it was unsimulated, with some claiming that Christie\u2019s then-boyfriend, Warren Beatty, had demanded it be cut. This emerges from a report by Variety editor Peter Bart, who had falsely claimed that he was on set when the scene was shot. <\/p>\n

Although Don\u2019t Look Now faced an endless series of censorship woes (as Roeg had to cut several frames in order to avoid an X-rating in the United States), Sutherland maintained up until his death that there was nothing legitimately pornographic onscreen. It\u2019s unusual that the film attracted so much controversy when it was released the same year as The Last Tango in Paris, which is deserving of backlash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018The Blair Witch Project\u2019 was real\"The<\/p>\n

The Blair Witch Project<\/a> was the rare case in which a film emerged at just the right time, where it could be experienced by an audience who didn\u2019t have the capability to learn too much about it ahead of time. It was thanks to the anonymity of an independent production and the lack of insight details leaked to film blogs that The Blair Witch Project hit theatres and managed to convince a surprising portion of the audience that it was a real documentary.<\/p>\n

Given that it was the first found footage horror film, and wasn\u2019t marketed as an obvious satire like This Is Spinal Tap, it felt more grounded during an era in which documentaries actually did good business at the box office. The only true horror involved was the pay dispute<\/a>, in which the film\u2019s stars weren\u2019t compensated properly for the film\u2019s overperformance.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018The Texas Chainsaw Massacre\u2019 was based on a real story\"The<\/p>\n

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre<\/a> had one of the greatest marketing campaigns of all time because it falsely claimed to be based on a true story, which director Tobe Hooper saw as a way to convince audiences to buy into the realism of his terrifying vision of a cinematic slasher.<\/a> While there were some elements of the Leatherface character that took loose inspiration from the real serial killer Ed Gein, all of the \u2018facts\u2019 included within the film\u2019s disturbing opening credits are purely fictitious.<\/p>\n

Even if this was a misleading component of the film, it was at least done with artistic intentions in mind. Joel and Ethan Coen would later do the exact thing when they presented Fargo as being based on a true story, even if it didn\u2019t end up sparking the same uproar that The Texas Chainsaw Massacre did.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2018The Snyder Cut\u2019 was real\"Zack<\/p>\n

Zack Snyder<\/a> developed a cult-like fandom that became so powerful that Warner Bros gave him the authority to create a director\u2019s cut of Justice League, the 2017 film that he had partially been on set for before handing over duties to Joss Whedon.<\/p>\n

Although Snyder\u2019s fanbase claimed that Warner Bros had secretly been censoring the director\u2019s vision, the reality is that his cut of the film was never assembled or completed; in order to release Zack Snyder\u2019s Justice League, the studio invested $90million to add new scenes and augment the effects. <\/p>\n

Although the extremely negative reaction to Snyder\u2019s DC work<\/a> led the universe to be revamped under James Gunn and Peter Safran, his fanbase has notoriously lobbied both Warner Bros and its new owners to restore the \u2018Snyderverse\u2019. Ironically, none of this enthusiasm has seemed to benefit him, as Netflix cut ties with the director when the Rebel Moon films underperformed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg and George Lucas destroyed New Hollywood\"Steven<\/p>\n

Steven Spielberg<\/a> and George Lucas created the two biggest films of the \u201870s with Jaws<\/a> and Star Wars, respectively. Some saw the growth of studio blockbusters aimed at capturing that same magic as the official end to the New Hollywood era, but the age of experimentation didn\u2019t prevent other auteur-driven films like Raging Bull, Terms of Endearment, Fatal Attraction, and Rain Man from being huge hits in the \u201880s.<\/p>\n

In the midst of his incredible run of hits, Spielberg was still directing adult-driven films like The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun; Lucas also helped executive produce Tucker: A Man and His Dream and Body Heat, while working on the Star Wars franchise. What truly killed New Hollywood were the high-profile flops, such as Michael Cimino\u2019s Heaven\u2019s Gate, Elaine May\u2019s Ishtar, and Francis Ford Coppola\u2019s One From The Heart.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Streaming is killing the theatrical market\"Netflix<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/a> went from being a DVD rental service to a powerful streaming service<\/a> that generates more films and shows than any other studio, and it\u2019s inspired other streamers to do the same. While Netflix is often cited as the reason that theatergoing has gone down, audiences have still shown an interest in coming out for major film events like Top Gun: Maverick and the dual billing of Barbie and Oppenheimer.<\/p>\n

The reasons for low attendance have to do with rising ticket prices, obnoxious audience members in theatres, and the increasing stratification of release strategies; when independent films are only released in coastal cities before gradually making their way to other markets, audiences can\u2019t be expected to keep up with when more obscure titles will be available to them. As a result, the films that tend to do the best are those that are based on established intellectual property, which won\u2019t be sustainable in the long run.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The 1980s were cinema\u2019s worst decade\"E.T.<\/p>\n

The 1980s<\/a> are sometimes described as the nadir of Hollywood history<\/a> because it marked an ending to the New Hollywood generation and a growth in franchise-building. While this might be true, the consequences didn\u2019t truly begin to rear their heads until later on, as the lineup of classics in the \u201880s is fairly unassailable.<\/p>\n

The \u201880s were not only the decade that saw the debut of directors like Michael Mann, James Cameron, Spike Lee, Kathryn Bigelow, Pedro Almodovar, and the Coen brothers, but one where established giants like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Woody Allen were doing some of their best work, and even the highest-grossing, more commercial films of the decade were great, with among the biggest titles were classics like ET the Extra-Terrestrial, The Empire Strikes Back, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and Back to the Future.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018The Wizard of Oz\u2019 is a cursed film The Wizard of Oz is one of the most joyful…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[30275,96,22014,2839,392,7198,60199,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-547113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-1980s","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-george-lucas","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-netflix","13":"tag-steven-spielberg","14":"tag-the-wizard-of-oz","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}