What their biopic does not say is that these guys often had hardcore endings

And after the movie, what happens?
Even for a guy or a bitch like you, it would not be easy to sum up all your life in a 2-hour movie. So, imagine the task of directors who often have to condense extraordinary fates over a similar duration. Choosing is eliminating. To the detriment sometimes of interesting facts like the end of life of the protagonists. Focus on some broken destinies.
John Nash (An Exceptional Man)
Reached paranoid schizophrenia, John Nash underwent heavy treatments in the 1960s, where shock waves in the brain were the norm. His battle against the disease was going to be very long, the mathematician only regaining a taste for his discipline in the 1990s when he was awarded the Bank of Sweden’s Economics Prize (the equivalent of a Nobel Prize). All this to die in May 2015 in a car accident, in the company of his wife …
Hugh Glass (The Revenant)
If “The Revenant” is not strictly speaking a biopic, the story is inspired by the totally crazy destiny of Hugh Glass, impossible to summarize in a single film. In turns a ship captain, a pirate and then a member of the Pawnees Indian tribe (who caused his friend to live flaming), the survivor Hugh Glass then embarked on an expedition of beaver hunters. The one that gets attacked at the beginning of “The Revenant” . After his rather violent encounter with a grizzly bear, the guy is taken care of by Bridger and John Fitzgerald (played by Tom Hardy), while the rest of the team carved the road.
But unlike the film, John Fitzgerald does not kill Hugh’s Indian son (which he never had), but robs him of his most precious possession: a Hawken caliber 54 gun. Left for dead, wounds Eaten with anything and everything (snakes, dogs, leftover bison …) . Collected by the Sioux, he was to recover and recover John Fitzgerald, who had meanwhile become a soldier. It is therefore impossible to take revenge, at the risk of being condemned. Exit the mythical fight of the film. Finally, Hugh Glass will die a few years later, in a new attack of Indians where he will be scalped.
Jack Swigert (Appolo 13)
John “Jack” Swigert was one of the three Astronauts of the Appolo 13 mission (in the film, his role is played by Kevin Bacon). He is famous for having dropped “Houston, we had a problem”, just after the explosion of an oxygen tank that caused the mission to mess up. Returned by miracle to Earth, Jack was decorated with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1970, a sublime career offering himself to him. But patatras! The astronaut was splashed by the “Postage Stamp” scandal that originally concerned the Appolo 15 mission. Astronauts had taken envelopes into space and then sold them to collectors for gold prices. After denying at first, Jack eventually confessed to having already used this kind of arrangement, de facto excluding it from NASA’s public campaigns. He later embarked on a political career but died of bone cancer in 1982, just before he could take up his post as a member of Parliament for Colorado.
Seabiscuit (Pur Sang, the legend of Seabiscuit)
Promised for a very modest career, Seabiscuit became a huge star in the United States during the 1930s, during the Great Depression. The racehorse has shifted from light shadow to the point of winning all the prestigious races in the country, making him the horse with the most gains in the history of this discipline. Very present in the popular culture US, Seabiscuit was entitled to its biopic in 2003, with in particular Tobey Maguire in the role of the jockey Red Pollard. A film that obscures the non-glorious end of pure blood, which mysteriously died of a heart attack at the age of 14 , while a horse’s lifespan ranges from 25 to 30 years.
Alan Turing (Imitation Game)
The illustrious mathematician entered into posterity for having “broken” the reputedly inviolable code of Enigma, the communication tool of the Nazis during the Second World War. According to experts, it was able to save 14 million people. Only minor concern for him: at the time, the UK was not really gay-friendly. Catching the patrol in 1952 for a dark history of morals, the genius of math will prefer chemical castration to prison . 2 years later, he will end his days by swallowing cyanide. And it is only in 2013 that the Queen will grace him posthumously …