Say this was especially egregious in the Steve Jobs biopic, which had almost nothing to do with reality, except being a "best hits" of various memes spread about the man throughout the years, combined with copious amount of Sorkinisms.
It's full of wrong facts and misplaced events (most famous is the HIV positivity disclosed before Live Aid (1985), Freddie discovered his positivity in 1987) and John Deacon role was taken to the minimum level.
They won 5 oscars.
Examples:
the Holman-moody team came up with the “hot swap” suspension thing, not the Shelby team.
Leo Beebe didn’t try to fuck Ken miles.
Ken miles wasn’t killed by brake failure, he was killed with the Jcar test mule lost the rear body work at high speed.
Lots more, but I don’t want to type it all out.
Other stuff I’ve just accumulated over the years ,don’t think anyone has written a complete history of the program.
What PISSES me off, is that in HS I lived within bike distance of gurney’s AAR and had no idea. My dad should have known, but didn’t bother to tell me. Also, within driving distance of Carroll smith’s residence.
I wanted nothing more than to be a race car engineer at the time.
Recently I watched the Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line (2005). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0358273
It was entirely by chance that almost immediately after that I saw the story of his first wife, Vivian Dorraine Liberto, in My Darling Vivian (2020), https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7432980
Watching these two films back to back is informative. The end bits of the last film featuring the celebratory gathering of Hollywood personas was specially galling, in context of the counter-narrative.
There is this 'machine' that has perfected the art of deception and perception management and preys upon our inherent human psychological susceptibilities. Even cynics like me are susceptible. The only effective antidote seems to be to turn the tools and means of the machine against its products, or to avoid its products entirely.