re: #232 De Kolta Chair

Hollywood will give biographies the Hollywood treatment, regardless of who it’s about and what they’ve done. They’ve got a knack for doing whatever they want with the story to get the ending they’re looking for.

Kyle’s story is no different. Eastwood took parts of his story and turned them into a movie; he’s done that before (Flags of Our Fathers, for instance) and he’s hardly alone in writing out parts of the story that were inconvenient, didn’t contribute to the narrative he wanted to tell, etc.

So, it’s hardly that Hollywood doesn’t tell these stories (the also did Lone Survivor too, so it’s not like Hollywood doesn’t tell these stories - and involving some of the biggest names in Hollywood to boot). It’s that some people don’t like how those stories are told.

And frankly that’s life. Not everyone gets the story they want or need. Or even the truth. It’s all through the filter of whoever is doing the story.