title: Any Resemblance to Actual Persons: The Real People Behind 400+ Fictional Movie Characters
author:  Hal Erickson 
description: "Learn about the origins of characters from <i>Jaws, Cool Hand Luke, Zero Dark Thirty, Double Indemnity</i>, and many other iconic movies." --<i>Library Journal</i>
zlib_text: 
  
  
  BY MARISHA PESSL
  
  
  
  
  
  _Special Topics in Calamity Physics_
  
  
  _Night Film_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  _Night Film_ is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all
  characters with the exception of some well-known historical and public
  figures, are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed
  as real.  
  Where real-life historical or public figures appear, the situations,
  incidents, and dialogues concerning those persons are entirely fictional and
  are not intended to depict actual events or to change the entirely fictional
  nature of the work. In all other respects, any resemblance to persons living
  or dead is entirely coincidental.
  
  
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