Distinguish Between Facts And Fictions That Are Portrayed In The Movie @ Which Aspect Of The Plot That Is Accurate To The Historical Fact In The JTR Murders And Which Aspect Of The Plot That Is Based On The Filmakers' Own Imagination.

 

Based from the movie From Hell, there are distinguishable between facts and fictions within the movie itself. 

Facts

 - All the victims in the movie were killed by the use of knifes. (Historical evidence show Jack The Ripper killed his victims with knifes.)

- Most of the names of the prostitutes are used based from historical facts and records such as Marry Kelly, Catherine Eddowes and Annie Chapman.

- The fourth victim Elizabeth Stride was killed by one clear cut from a knife and the killing was disturbed (Based from historical records it shows the same result that was viewed from the movie.)

Fictions

-Fredrick Abberline did not die due to over usage of the opium drug he consumed. (In fact he died due to old age in the age of 86 in the year1929.)

-The murder of Jack The Ripper was linked with Freemasonry rituals, other secretive society or cult. (The real investigation by Fredrick Abberline shows no relation between Freemason and Jack The Ripper. He did not even investigate the situation unlike that happened in the movie.)

-The affair between Marry Kelly and Inspector Fredrick Abberline. (Based from historical evidence Mary Kelly and Fredrick Abberline don't even know each other. Fredrick Abberline only knew her when she was already dead and a victim to the Ripper.)

-Marry Kelly escaped from Jack The Ripper and migrated somewhere else where she can find peace. (However she was the fifth victim to be murdered by Jack The Ripper in true historical records, she did not migrate somewhere as viewed in the movie.)

Part Of The Plot That Is Based From Historical Facts.

• The location where all the victims were killed in the movie were described based from historical evidence. For example, Martha Tabram was murdered in George Yard, Whitechapel is in the centre left on the map. Just as viewed and described in the movie.

 

• The From Hell Letter received received by George Lusk, leader of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee , on 16 October 1888 and a preserved kidney in a small box viewed from the movie is based from true historical evidence derived through many sources.

 

Part Of The Plot That Is Based From The Film Makers Own Imagination.

• The love affair between Marry Kelly and Inspector Fredrick Abberline is a part of the Film Makers imagination in the movie. Western movies like to portray relationships between the opposite gender in order to get attraction from viewers.

• The part where the existence of Freemason cult or secret society within the life of Jack The Ripper is also a part of Film Makers imagination because there is no records indicate that the life of Jack The Ripper is associated with Freemasonry or other secret society.

• The poisoned grape that Jack The Ripper gave the victim to eat so that they are drunk by the reaction of the poison and his professionalism in dismantling his victim into parts is a part of imagination in order to show the professionalism of Jack The Ripper himself in killing his victim unlike in historical records where he destroyed his victim body literally.

 

Sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_the_Ripper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Kelly
http://www.casebook.org/victims/