Bridge of Spies: Spielberg and the Coen Brothers Punch Up History

[Mark A. O'Blazney]

Phil:

That's an interesting question.

Because I looked at the credits in several places, like IMDB. Which is usually quite complete.

I could not find the source material, Strangers on a Bridge there.

If that is true, then what these guys did is really something.

They clearly used that book as a source. But they then disguised their use of it an dibbled the film as Inspired by True Events.

See, they want to have it both ways.

Sorry Stevie and Tommy. I'm not buying it.

Yes…… 'Inspired' by true events. That sounds like it was inspired by their legal department. Didn't Stone have to call his film "a modern myth" before its release? Faction by any other name. When are these filmmakers going to start producing documentaries ?