7 Uncomfortable Facts That Ruin Beloved Movies
Animal deaths, sex offenders and actors who despise their characters.
It should be possible to separate a motion picture - a work of fiction - from reality. Things that we know about the private lives of movie stars, directors and writers shouldn't technically affect the experience of watching a picture, after all; knowing what happened behind the scenes of a film shouldn't bleed into our enjoyment a film, because they're two different worlds. What exists in one does not exist in the other. That said, sometimes it's possible to stumble upon a piece of information that stops you in your tracks. A fact that is so unbelievable, offensive or downright insulting that it warps your opinion of a movie to the point that you're unable to watch it in the same way again. What you've learned ends up changing your opinion of the movie itself. This doesn't matter when it comes to terrible movies, of course - all the more reason to hate on them, right? But what happens when an indisputable fact changes your opinion of a beloved movie and the people who made it? Prepare to be disillusioned; you certainly won't sit down to any of the following movies again without recalling these ghastly facts...