It was baffling to me why they changed the story in all these ways that didn’t even make for a better story. The scene where Harry just happens to be standing

It was baffling to me why they changed the story in all these ways that didn’t even make for a better story. The scene where Harry just happens to be standing there when Ray is trying to get a loan, for example, felt sort of odd. Screwing the brothers out of the handshake deal for royalties is another odd thing to make up. The movie was all plot, anyway, just sort of a timeline of facts in movie form, so it’s not like altering the facts at random, in large and small ways, made it more cohesive or something.