Zal rule
The Zal rule is an informal term for psyops that share the following: "when a movie of an event is made, the event can safely be considered fake".
Examples
For more examples, see the category at the bottom of the page
- Guy Fawkes Night (1605) - V for Vendetta (2006)
- Death Simón Bolívar (1830) - El Libertador (2014)
- Titanic (1912) - Titanic (1997)
- Bonnie & Clyde (1934) - Bonnie & Clyde (1967)
- Nikola Tesla (1943) - The Prestige (2006)
- Assassination of JFK (1963) - JFK (1991)
- Apollo 13 (1970) - Apollo 13 (1995)
- Space-time singularity (1970)/Stephen Hawking - The Theory of Everything (2014)
- The Miracle of the Andes (1972) - Alive! (1993)
- US Embassy Iran hostage crisis (1979) - Argo (2012)
- 9/11 (2001) - Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), World Trade Center, United 93 (2006)
- Hudson Hoax (2009) - Sully (2016)
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2010) - Deepwater Horizon (2016)
- Mining accident in Chile (2010) - 33 (2015)
- Boston Marathon bombings (2013) - Patriots Day (2017)
See also
- Prescriptive programming - when an event is prescribed in an earlier movie, series or other form of art
- Glossary of Fakeologist terms - for other terms used by Fakeologists