Radio Movie Review - 578 Words

The Movie â€Å"Radio† is said to be based on a true story, and although most of the story was true, there were quite a lot of differences between the movie and real life events. There were changes that had to be made simply because of the time period that the movie was set in. There were things that had to be left out or condensed in order to keep the story short enough to make it into a film. There were also events added that did not actually happen but were used to create a more exciting movie. Many things needed to be changed slightly to make filming easier. One change was the location. Although Anderson, South Carolina was the real town, It looked too modern so it was decided to use another South Carolina town called Walterboro. Walterboro still had an older feel to it and required less work to make it look like 1976, when the film was set. The film makers had the same sort of problem when choosing a school. 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