Isn't Everything Technically Inspired on Actual Events?
March 2, 2012
The temporal anomaly has been resolved and March has begun, and with it a new comic.
One of the most over used marketing gimmicks now a day, especially in horror and suspense movies is "inspired by actual events." Actual events you say? That means it actually happened, right? Wrong. Key word "inspired." Inspired could mean anything, and depennding on the mind of the artist an actual event can inspire a completely different story.
One of the earliest films I can think of that had this tagline applied to it was The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and even more erroniously all of it's sequels. Trust me, there's no crazy imbreed redneck family in Texas mutilating hapless teenagers, well probably. Tobe Hooper, the writer of the original himself admitted he made it up. One day when Hooper was in a hardware store, and feeling particularly claustrophobic saw a rack of chainsaws and thought to himself, I could get out of here really fast if I picked on of these up and turned it on. And bam, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre was born, and as you can see while the story isn't true, it was inspired by an actual event, a stupid completely unrelated event, but an event none the less.
So basically what I'm saying is whenever you see the words "inspired by actual events," it might as well say, leave your suspention of disbeelief at the door.