(Over email, Wiseau had no interest in engaging with the fact that his supposedly true origins are revealed in Harper's movie).
At the time, he was newly arrived in South America to start production on Fitzcarraldo – the giddy and occasionally brilliant saga that actually managed to make more demented the supposedly true story of a 19th-century Irish rubber baron who set out to build an opera house in the Amazon and ended up hauling a steamship over a mountain.
In fact, when this supposedly true love is being displayed, the lovers have very little individuality.
And Lysander, the supposedly true lover of Hermia, won her affections with the familiar earthly magic of "rings, gauds, conceits".
Though rooted in fact, I changed most of the personal details in the supposedly true stories, fabricated others entirely and randomly altered, for example, the location of my home and the age, number and gender of my children from week to week.
It tells the supposedly true story of Italy's first crime family, the titular Borgias, in the 15th century, and centers around Rodrigo Borgia bribing and cheating his way into being the pope.
Then, the re-sampling procedure as described above was applied to this supposedly true constellation.
Two weeks after France began bombing Libya, in March, 2011, Hillary Clinton's old friend and advisor Sidney Blumenthal passed her an intelligence memo that supposedly revealed France's true — and quite unflattering— motivations for toppling Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
The author of the harrowing story "Premature Burial" may well have read the supposedly true-life tale of the Pennsylvania farmer's wife whose tomb was opened to reveal her fingers missing.
Nevertheless we all must know by now, that controversy is not new in Hollywood's depiction of supposedly true story films.
