Not sure what you point is. Fargo says "This is a true story".
It adds that apart from the name changes "the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
A blatant lie, not at all in the manner of "based on a true story".
It adds that apart from the name changes "the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
A blatant lie, not at all in the manner of "based on a true story".
"The persons and events portrayed in this production are fictitious."
Nobody reads the tiny print in end credits. Viewers were told in opening credits that every detail except the names was true.
Someone went looking for the buried money and got themselves killed as a direct result of the statement in the opening credits.
Movies that are actually intended as works of fiction (even if inspired by real events, and even if—well, given the purpose, especially if—including some characters retaining the names of those in the real events doing some of the things they actually did) have it.