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I read an interesting interview from around the time The Buddy Holly Story was released where the directors/producers of the movie flat out said “Whatever we put up there on the screen will be the truth”, and then go on to explain that people will believe whatever they put in the movie is fact. They said they didn't care about historical accuracy, their goal was just to make a movie that made lots of money, so they created the story they thought would sell the best and said people would buy it as truth because people will believe whatever they show them.
I'm playing a stage show about Buddy Holly that was written in the mid-1990's and I was fascinated to see that most of the content in the show is based on "facts" that came from the movie, not reality. 80% of the show is made up fiction that has no basis in history.
It made me realize the producers of The Buddy Holly Story were right. People believed what they put up on the screen. And at the time that movie came out there were no other good written sources of information about Buddy Holly, and his recordings were not widely available. So the only source of information the public had about him was what they saw in the movie.
And they believed it.
To the point that a show written 20 years later is based off "facts" that came from the movie and not reality. Even though the real people involved had worked so hard over those years to get the true story out, and there were so many more written sources of information, the story that the public knows is still the fiction from the movie.
Now I'm playing in a production of this show almost 30 years later, and I'm the only one involved in the production who knows this is not the true story.
Almost 70 years after these events, the fictional characters and events have replaced the real ones in the public's concept of history and are now what are commonly accepted as the truth. While the real people and real events have all but been lost to history.
The person the public today knows as "Buddy Holly" is a fictional character created by Hollywood to make money
I'm playing a stage show about Buddy Holly that was written in the mid-1990's and I was fascinated to see that most of the content in the show is based on "facts" that came from the movie, not reality. 80% of the show is made up fiction that has no basis in history.
It made me realize the producers of The Buddy Holly Story were right. People believed what they put up on the screen. And at the time that movie came out there were no other good written sources of information about Buddy Holly, and his recordings were not widely available. So the only source of information the public had about him was what they saw in the movie.
And they believed it.
To the point that a show written 20 years later is based off "facts" that came from the movie and not reality. Even though the real people involved had worked so hard over those years to get the true story out, and there were so many more written sources of information, the story that the public knows is still the fiction from the movie.
Now I'm playing in a production of this show almost 30 years later, and I'm the only one involved in the production who knows this is not the true story.
Almost 70 years after these events, the fictional characters and events have replaced the real ones in the public's concept of history and are now what are commonly accepted as the truth. While the real people and real events have all but been lost to history.
The person the public today knows as "Buddy Holly" is a fictional character created by Hollywood to make money
