“It's based on a true story.“ Or “It's truth, but stranger than fiction.“ Or even, “You couldn't make it up.“ When Peter Weir gets sent film scripts these days, most of them advertise themselves as “true.“ That wasn't always the case: Weir (who made Gallipoli, Witness, and Master and Commander, among other movies) dates the tilt away from fiction and toward fact back to Sept. 11, 2001, the day when reality suddenly seemed “exactly like a Hollywood movie.“ The growth of reality television surely explains
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