Talk:The Pursuit of Truthyness

I rented the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness" recently. The movie was OK, but after it was over I visited this site to read the "true" biography of Chris Gardner. The movie certainly is truthy in comparison to Mr. Gardner's real life experiences.

The one difference that kind of bugs me (and would probably bug Our Glorious Stephen as well) is in the movie, Mr. Gardner is portrayed as an unpaid intern (as all interns should be!) His bio states that during this period, he actually was paid $1000.00 per month. There are other discrepancies in the movie that I won't expand on here.

Another point that I feel happened (but I'm not going to bother re-watching the movie to confirm) is there was no disclaimer at the start of the movie stating "The following is based on true events...". When the opening credits of the movie Fargo stated this, it was a truthy fract, but at least the Cohen Brothers had the balls to put the disclaimer out there. Did I miss this statement in TPOH?

My gut is stirring again! It's telling me:


 * As Truthiness Defenders, we should expose "false Truthiness" (i.e. "TruthYness") at all opportunites;
 * Is "Truthyness" a new Wikiality Dictionary term?
 * We could create a new article called "The Pursuit of Truthyness" in the style of those tabloid exposes -- I'm feeling using a table to compare the "true" Chris Gardner biography points vs. the "movie".

Thoughts? --OHeL 16:58, 15 April 2007 (UTC)