There are some liberties taken with the stories, partly because it's distilling four Gospels into one narrative but also partly
because dramatic license needs to be taken to make a miniseries work.
Not exact matches
Of course, this is the type of fact - based film that probably would have benefited from taking more
dramatic license with the material,
because some of the sensational events that occur (including one character's supposed death) are presented so matter - of - factly that it sucks the fun out of the movie.
Written originally for the stage, Frost / Nixon is the true story - albeit with
dramatic license - of Richard Nixon's first interview after resigning from the Oval Office in disgrace
because of Watergate.
That is what you expect
because you've seen too many of those historical films with frank and cloying melodrama, artificial conflict, and steep
dramatic license.
Ben Affleck has stated that, «
Because we say that it's based on a true story, rather than this is a true story -LSB-...] we're allowed to take some
dramatic license.»