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Question: What are the advantages and disadvantages of making film of real life events? 使用真实事件拍电影好处和坏处是什么? Answer: Advantages: 1. Making a movie from real life events gives the movie a feeling of being real. So that, people can relate to that movie, especially if the audience has had the experience of that event. And the movie can achieve an emotional effect in the people that watch it. 2. Making a movie about a real person or a real event in history can arouse peoples interests and curiosity. For example, if Im making a movie about the life and story of JFK, then many people would want to watch it simply because they like the person yet they know very little about him. In this sense, such movies have history textbook values. 3. Because the movie that you make is about things that actually happened, so your story-telling enjoys a high credibility among the audience. Disadvantages: 1. Since youre making a movie about real event, you want to be true to the original story. And this limits the directors imagination, so the movie may appear like a history textbook, very dry and unbelievably boring. 2. Some events are simply too sensitive and emotional to be made into movies, such as the 911 or the genocide of Jewish people by Hitler. If you do make a movie like this, then many people will be offended and their feelings will be hurt. Nicolas cage starred in a movie called World Trade Center about the 911 Incident. Many movie theaters in New York refused to play it because people didnt like to be reminded of the painful past. So you see, some movies made of real life events will never be well-received / popular. And this is another disadvantage of making a movie based on real life events. | 
