The Cynical Historian

Richard Jewell | Based on a True Story (2021x25)

Air date: Jul 07, 2021

I don’t know how I feel about the newest Clint Eastwood directed based-on-a-true-story film. The last one he did, I had nothing but praise, but this one I’m far more ambivalent about. It’s salvageable, but has one fatal flaw that I just can’t bring myself to forgive. It’s based on the story of Richard Jewell. ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos 1517 to paris: https://youtu.be/MLZ-BF2p0L4 Sully: https://youtu.be/jrtn_dggXTY ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata references: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/richard-jewell/ https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/true-story-richard-jewell-how-accurate-are-characters-1262302 https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/richard-jewell-movie-accuracy-journalist-fact-fiction.html https://time.com/5748926/richard-jewell-movie-true-story/ ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cynicalhistorian Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory/ Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen.[5][6][7][8][9