Richard Jewell | Based on a True Story

I don’t know how I feel about the newest Clint Eastwood directed based-on-a-true-story film. The last one he did, I had nothing but praise, but this one I’m far more ambivalent about. It’s salvageable, but has one fatal flaw that I just can’t bring myself to forgive. It’s based on the story of Richard Jewell. ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos 1517 to paris:    • The 15:17 to Paris | Based on a True Story   Sully:    • Sully | Based on a True Story   ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for notes, responses, and errata references: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/re... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lis... https://slate.com/culture/2019/12/ric... https://time.com/5748926/richard-jewe... ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Support the channel through PATREON:   / cynicalhistorian   or by purchasing MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/the-cyni... LET'S CONNECT: Twitch:   / cynicalhistorian   Facebook:   / cynicalcypher88   Subreddit:   / cynicalhistory   Discord:   / discord   Twitter:   / cynical_history   ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Richard Jewell is a 2019 American biographical drama film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood and written by Billy Ray. It is based on the 1997 Vanity Fair article "American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell" by Marie Brenner and the 2019 book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle by Kent Alexander and Kevin Salwen.[5][6][7][8][9] The film depicts the July 27 Centennial Olympic Park bombing and its aftermath, as security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, and alerts authorities to evacuate, only to later be wrongly accused of having placed the device himself. The film stars Paul Walter Hauser as Jewell, alongside Sam Rockwell, Kathy Bates, Jon Hamm, and Olivia Wilde. ------------------------------------------------------------ Hashtags: #history #RichardJewell #OlympicBombing #review #BasedOnATrueStory