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davidpdx

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15. I'm sure there are plenty of discrepancies between what would actually happen
Fri Nov 15, 2013, 02:19 AM
Nov 2013

and how the story was told. Hollywood tends to glamorize most anything. Look at the movie Pearl Harbor or Titanic. Both were disasters turned into love stories with the actual events minimized. Unstoppable was based on a true story, but even on Wikipedia it says that the details of the story were changed. I still happen to think it was a decent movie. Then again, I didn't pay to see it in the theater or rent it.

Most people wouldn't be able to pick out those small details as we've never learned about locomotives. I admit I have no knowledge about that. Then again if I started talking about how to do case study research on a the interaction between two cultures most people would be lost or not care after the first five minutes.

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