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Jan 5, 2018 · The true story of Molly Bloom, a beautiful, young, Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the...
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Molly's Game is slightly different. According to the author and the subject of the film, Molly Bloom, the facts as presented on screen, as wild as they are, really did happen. Starting in 2004 ...
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The Real Poker Games Happened In The Viper Lounge
Everything portrayed up until Molly moves to LA in Molly’s Game is extremely accurate of the true story. Her father’s overbearing insistence on excellence, her skiing career and accident, and her start as a waitress make appearances both in Bloom’s memoir and in interviews with the ex “Poker Princess”. Like in real life, barring some name changes, Dean Keith (Jeremy Strong) met Molly while she was waitressing and offered her a gig as his assistant at his nightclub. The movie changes the name...
Darin Feinstein Is The Real Owner Of The Viper Room
As Aaron Sorkin's first movie as a director, he carefully chose the changes he made to the Molly's Game true story, such as how the only thing the movie changed about the club owner who first launched Molly into the world of underground poker is his name. The movie calls him Dean Keith; Bloom’s memoir calls him Reardon Green. In real life, his name was Darin Feinstein, a co-owner of The Viper Room who brought Molly on as an executive assistant. The more insane details in the movie about Molly...
Player X Is Widely Believed To Be Tobey Maguire
In the book Molly's Game: The True Story of the 26-Year-Old Woman Behind the Most Exclusive, High-Stakes Underground Poker Game in the World, Bloom is careful about who she names, and who remains anonymous. Actors like Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, and Macaulay Culkin became known participants in the underground poker scene after a court case turned public; the bank sued Molly for the money one of her players, Ponzi scheme runner Bradley Ruderman, had lost in the game. In her book, Bloom on...
Idris Elba's Molly's Game Character Isn't Based On A Real Person
Molly's Game's Charlie Jaffey, played by Idris Elba, is an entirely fictional person. While Molly did hire lawyers, Jaffey is an agglomeration, Sorkin’s way of integrating his point of view into the movie. In fact, Sorkin didn’t even interview Bloom’s real-life lawyer, Jim Walden, to allow himself one wholly fictional element. Interestingly, the fictional law firm Jaffey works for, Gage Whitney, has made several appearances in Sorkin’s work, including in The West Wing and Studio 60. But overa...
There Are Only A Few Chronological Differences Between The Movie And The Book
The Molly’s Game ending brings her and her father together, where he finally acts the part of supportive parent before her trial. This scene doesn’t make it into Bloom’s memoir, although that is because she wrote it before her actual sentencing. Molly’s Game takes its inspiration from both the memoir and close work between Sorkin and Bloom herself, so Bloom was there to fill in the details between 2014, when the book was published, and 2017, when the movie hit theaters. Another minor timeline...
Most Of Aaron Sorkin's Work Is Based On Real Life
Apart from the way almost all of Aaron Sorkin's movies and TV shows are either directly based on true stories or loosely adapted from the experiences of real people, Sorkin is also known for his trademark use of perfectly-written quickfire dialogue, as popularized by The West Wing's "walk-and-talk" scenes. Sorkin's style of giving characters extended monologs and extremely cutting lines has been criticized as over-the-top and unrealistic, which are sometimes fair descriptions of Sorkin's work...
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Jan 5, 2018 · Molly's Game: Directed by Aaron Sorkin. With Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera. The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target.
Dec 25, 2017 · Molly Bloom's memoir recounts the actors who played in her poker games, like Ben Affleck and Tobey Maguire, and her encounter with the mob.
