Sentences with phrase «as fictionalized»

Pindell wrote, in her artist statement for the 1980 show at A.I.R. Gallery: «As a Black American woman, I draw on my experience as I have lived it and not as others wish to perceive my living it as fictionalized in the media and so - called «history» books.»

Hershman Leeson created a fictional character named Roberta Breitmore between 1973 and 1978, who even had her own therapist; Mendieta photographed herself with male facial hair to challenge gender signifiers; Sherman's conceptual portraits have seen her disguise herself as fictionalized characters; and Wearing has manipulated her self image with masks.

I've read other critics refer to this story as a fictionalized biography, and in at least one instance there was disappointment because the critic felt it failed at that.

Always a bit partial to films based on a true story, I would have to label this as a fictionalized historical period piece, and a step above most costume dramas (though the costumes here are quite stunning).

A new trailer has been released for Michael Winterbottom «s The Trip, starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon as fictionalized versions of themselves — similar to what they did in 2006's Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.

I can imagine a lot of good movies developing from this premise, but as fictionalized by screenwriter Dan Fogelman, it becomes yet another soggy tale of father - son healing.

Wiley describes it as a «total joy» to play Detective Mathers, a no - nonsense LAPD homicide detective who is partnered with an actor (Veronica Mars» Ryan Hansen as a fictionalized version of himself) to solve crimes.

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We were slaves to the facts as a structure, but you do fictionalize conversation within that.

In January 2012, bitcoin was featured as the main subject within a fictionalized trial on the CBS legal drama The Good Wife in the third - season episode «Bitcoin for Dummies».

Further, some comments have been created by fictionalized characters as a way for the company to provide examples of possible < but not guaranteed < results.

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

Presented as a novel, the book is really a collection of short stories revolving around Margaret Sargent, a lightly fictionalized version of McCarthy.

When we consider the racial or ethnic dynamics of the play, two points stand out: First, racial difference is a source of animosity, suspicion, and disdain; second, despite the animosity, suspicion, and disdain, not even Shakespeare's fictionalized Venice can be described as a racist society in the modern sense of the term.

They have the courage to accept their reality, their truth, and they truly accept God as God is, rather than fictionalizing Him.

Called Mary: The Queen of the House of David and Mother of Jesus, it reads like a Harlequin romance of Mary's life: a paeon of praise to motherhood, with a highly fictionalized account of Mary as the chief exemplar.

Religious discourse is, of course, replete with such stories — from the biblical stories of Jacob, Joseph, Jesus, and Paul, to modern equivalents about religious converts, to such fictionalized variants as Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones.

If Einstein's version of the universe is correct — and experiments done over the last century suggest that essentially it is — then the fictionalized feats based on his theories might be possible as well.

He'd been given the script because 20th Century Fox had written eHarmony into the story, and wanted the company's cooperation in making its fictionalized service as accurate as possible.

As Argo rushes toward its obstacle - course climax, the story becomes increasingly fictionalized, with last - minute phone calls, cross-cut action, dread - filled delays and angry guards shouting in unsubtitled Farsi.

In this fictionalized biography, Cicely Tyson stars as the 110 - year - old Jane Pittman, who recounts the events of her life as they relate to a century of racism in America.

Rogen also stars alongside James Franco, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, and Craig Robinson, and they all play fictionalized versions of themselves as an apocalypse brings an end to the world as we know it.

And yet, despite those observable similarities, it was announced early last year that Margot Robbie would star as Tonya Harding in director Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya, a fictionalized depiction of the fallen former American Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was connected to an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, leading to the totally frenzied and unjust trial - by - media of Harding.

Doll & Em is an intimate and innovative half - hour HBO comedy series created, written and starring real - life best friends Emily Mortimer [The Newsroom] and Dolly Wells [Some Girls] as (slightly) fictionalized versions of themselves.

As those scenes progressed, the dialogue and situations between them felt far more fictionalized than his work with the CIA, NSA, or the scenes taking place in Hong Kong.

It stars Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as travel writer Bill Bryson and his buddy, fictionalized by Bryson as «Stephen Katz,» having a go at the Appalachian Trail for a little light banter and a casual insight or two regarding life's highways.

As you can see, the play Mortimer and Wells are working on follows a fictionalized version of the show's fictionalized version of the actresses, so things are getting very meta in the show.

As implausible as such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knowAs implausible as such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knowas such naiveté would have been in the late 1980s, when these fictionalized lovebirds are said to have met, Nick barely blinks when he discovers what the rest of the country - if not the world - already knows.

Dern stars as a loosely fictionalized version of documentary filmmaker Jennifer Fox, who must come to terms with the fact that she was abused at age 13 by her beloved track coach and horse - riding instructor — a relationship she had convinced herself for decades was consensual and romantic.

Like Ofelia's journey in Pan's Labyrinth, it sees childhood as the blueprint for how adults might aspire to be the heroes of their own lives, and so it finds young Robert Ford (Casey Affleck) jealously hoarding his stash of highly - fictionalized penny novels (of the sort W.W. Beauchamp was writing on English Bob in another western touchstone, Unforgiven) about his hero James under his bed with other sundry relics of his youth.

Director George Hickenlooper (Factory Girl, Hearts of Darkness) films this mostly fictionalized interpretation of the rise and fall of uber - lobbyist Jack Abramoff (Spacey, Moon), fancying his antics as some sort of comedy we should all be entertained by.

It's a fictionalized account (taken from the book «The Sewers of Lvov») of Polish Jews who lived through the Nazi occupation by hiding in the sewers beneath a ransacked Jewish ghetto, making for a drama that is every bit as grim as it sounds.

At first, the other guys who work with Andy (at some fictionalized Circuit City clone at an L.A. strip mall) have little use for him except as an object of mild derision and disbelief.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

The much - trumpeted, fictionalized account of the rise (and fall, and rise again) of Microsoft and Apple Computer, airing Sunday on TNT, presents both the turtlenecked CEO and Mr. Bill as thieves and jerks with few redeeming features, so if by chance you're a devoted fan of either one, be prepared.

After three fictionalized accounts and at least twice as many documentaries, Operation Entebbe (also known as Operation Thunderbolt) has long been included in the annals of pop culture.

With better production value and more talented actors, Alex & Emma would have had a chance to be much better, as the high - concept story lends well to intriguing developments in both stories (reportedly based on the creation of Dostoyevsky's «The Gambler»), the fictionalized and the «real - life.»

Even fictionalized stories of this ilk haven't caught fire, as «The Ides of March» only received a single Oscar nomination.

Despite its stately direction and superb imperial score by Alexandre Desplat, The Queen is itself something of a tabloid - y endeavor, as one of its primary pleasures comes from its (fictionalized) glimpse behind Buckingham Palace's guarded walls.

Director Daniels and screenwriter Danny Strong, who based the movie on a Washington Post article by Wil Haygood, use this as a basis for the completely fictionalized persona of Cecil Gaines, played by Forest Whitaker.

The most recent fictionalized version of the Kennedys was a well - made, decently - acted, but sudsy TV melodrama starring Katie Holmes as Jacqueline Bouvier.

This is a smart move, as little is known of the early life of the Dalai Lama and instead of over fictionalizing, we are shown how the peaceful philosophies of the Tibetans help Harrer to become less self centered as he grows to love and respect these people..

Fictionalizing a 24 hour period in Cave's life which unfolds as a first - person documentary peppered with woozy, dreamlike encounters that may simply be ghosts of a dimly remembered past, «20,000 Days» is saved from unbearable self - indulgence by the deadpan but unmistakably self - aware direction.

The breezy middle portion focusing on Ali's struggles with the Draft as he tries to protect his title is undercut by the ending, which fictionalizes the events surrounding the Ali / Foreman «Rumble in the Jungle,» already beautifully dissected in Leon Gast's When We Were Kings.

Charlie Kaufman has written some of the most original movies of the last decade, but «Adaptation» is probably his best thanks to an incredible (and surprisingly reserved) performance from Nicolas Cage, who plays a fictionalized version of the screenwriter as he struggles to finish the script for the very film that the audience is watching.

In this fictionalized version the part of Sánchez is taken by Joaquim de Almeida as Castillo, a man who had been president fifteen years back but is now trailing well behind Victor Rivera (Louis Arcella).

Fictionalizing a true - life story has many pitfalls, but The Good Lie dodges most of them as it creates a...

Chronicling this fictionalized fight for the soul of Chile, the film reveals itself as an underdog story about the «generation gap,» pitting youthful optimism against aging tyrrany, hope against repression.

Since leaving the studio fold a decade ago, Miller and his screenwriter / producer wife, Jody Savin, have turned out a string of modestly budgeted indies with name casts and solid production values but no real personality, the best of which, 2008's «Bottle Shock,» was another (heavily fictionalized) slice of «70s nostalgia about Napa Valley's emergence as a world - class wine producer.

In this case, the equation is perhaps reversed, as the documentary fictionalizes — even mythologizes — the histories of its subjects cum filmmakers.