Talk:The World's Fastest Indian

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Having watched the film and read the wikipedia article on Munro, I find that the picture is only loosely based on "the true story" and it is rather a highly dramatized version for commercial audiences.

In particular, he did not achieve the 324Km/h in his first visit to the salt plains, but 5 years later (source: wikipedia). Nor it seems, did he get to this speed the time he slowed the cycle down by sticking his head up, loosing his goggles and crashing down. In the film they have made a collage of these three events: his first visit, beating the speed record, and loosing his goggles.

In my opinion, it would be more accurate to say "based on a true story" or "a highly dramatized account of his achievements". Cgonzalezdelhoyo 19:06, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't really think that's necessary. Generally, I would expect that a film adaptation would play very loosely with the facts (e.g., A Beautiful Mind, Finding Neverland, Apollo 13). It's not like anyone's calling this a documentary... (in fact, the director of The World's Fastest Indian made a documentary on Munro in 1973).--Limegreen 00:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

He did set a land-speed on his first visit to Utah in 1962 (when the film is set). Then he broke his own records in subsequent years. --Mathew5000 08:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

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What is an "underground powerpole"? GrahamBould 11:31, 26 June 2006 (UTC)