re: Oher blindsided, gaslit by Tuohy family; wishes he had gone to Tennessee

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If that is the case, then the Tuoy’s went out of their way to present the story in the movie as if he had been adopted as a member of the family.

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No, the Hollywood scriptwriter and director went out of their way to do that. Maybe the Tuohys had a role in that. Maybe they didn't.

Hollywood is in the business of making entertaining movies, not movies about boring realities. In 2013, Argo won the Oscar for best picture. Some have said it should have won the Oscar for best fabrication of the truth. In the climactic scene, where the Iranian soldiers with guns in trucks are chasing the plane with the Americans on board down the runway, that never happened at all. On the day the six Americans left Iran, they went to the airport that morning with their fake Canadian passports, got on the plane, and left, without any incident. But that would have made for a pretty boring ending, and the movie never would have won an Oscar. That's not to say the Americans' lives weren't in danger the whole time they were in Iran. But the real ending of the story was a helluva lot more boring than the movie ending.