Richard Jewell Ending Explained: What Happened And What Happened After

Did The Film Do Richard Jewell’s Story Justice?

Clint Eastwood’s film is based on the Vanity Fair profile piece (linked earlier) American Nightmare: The Ballad of Richard Jewell and the book The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media, and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle. Based on the Vanity Fair article, the film follows the facts told in it pretty closely. However, there are some things that don’t quite come across in the film that are stated in the article. In the movie, Richard is kind of portrayed like a bit of an outcast, mama’s boy simpleton, but in real life, the article said he had an active social life, a complicated but loving relationship with his mother, and he was quite observant and smart.

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