Sentences with phrase «fictional stories based»

Kerry's review of THE BEAUTIFUL CIGAR GIRL convinced me I must read this «mysterious and odd» murder mystery that inspired Edgar Allan Poe to create one of the first fictional stories based on a true crime.

Which is ironic, because UnReal is a fictional story based on the behind - the - scenes of a fake reality show that's similar to the Bachelor.

Written by Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare At Goats) and Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare At Goats), Frank is a fictional story based on the memoir by Jon Ronson and loosely inspired by Frank Sidebottom (the persona of cult musician and comedy legend Chris Sievey), as well as outsider musicians like Daniel Johnston, Captain Beefheart and Harry Partch.

Set from 1958 to 1964, this fictional story based around true characters and events revolves around the relationship that develops between an aspiring actress, Marla (Lily Collins) and her driver / future finance expert, Frank (Alden Ehrenreich)-- both in the employ of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes (writer, director Warren Beatty).

Kate Gets Marks, is a fictional story based on a significant relationship of mine.

Recently, he performed Every Time I See Your Picture I Crya story set in Las Vegas of a fictional story based on the life experiences of Scott Thorson, Liberace's young boyfriend at Images Film and Video Festival.

Mediating in the Shadow of Faith: Personal Beliefs, The BATNA Analysis, and Dealmaking (04/21/17) This is a fictional story based on fact, teaching an example about mediation.

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It is an interesting notion that one can have a commission based off a belief in fictional stories.

You have verifiable fact type books, then moral carrying fictional stories of an oral tradition which as most oral traditions go, the base stories were built up on every time they were retold and so again every time they were rewritten and translated!!!

Your imaginary sky fairy came to from a fictional book based on fictional stories adapted from previous fictional myths derived from bedtime stories to explain things cavemen didn't understand.

Her ground - breaking, award - winning «Kids Making Healthy Choices» Smartphone APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (iTunes) is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids» (Amazon).

Guest Writer - Merilee Kern Children's health advocate, health industry veteran and two - time fitness champion, Merilee Kern, is the creator of the ground - breaking «Kids Making Healthy Choices» APP for children, parents / caregivers and educators (available on iTunes), which is based on her award - winning, illustrated fictional children's book, «Making Healthy Choices — A Story to Inspire Fit, Weight-Wise Kids.»

While this school is fictional, it's based on real - life statistics and stories we hear from school food service staff, principals, teachers, parents and students.

While this school is fictional, it's based on real - life statistics and stories we... Continue reading →

It's based on true events but it's a fictional story.

In the forthcoming Part II, I will relate a different fictional story that also is strongly based upon real university scientists I have known.

I read a fictional story plus two faith based nonfictional books, and they all moved... Continue reading Paperback Picks: February

«Patriots Day» is based on the true story but features a combination of real - life and fictional characters.

Although based on a true story, this movie uses various fictional characters to depict the horrors of the Holocaust.

(1) The Intouchables, an $ 11.5 million dramedy, based on a true story, that was co-written and co-directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano and has become the second highest - grossing French film of all - time in France and grossed more than $ 355 million internationally (more than any other French film and, for that matter, any non-English-language film, save for The Passion of the Christ); and (2) Rust and Bone, a fictional drama that was co-written and directed by Jacques Audiard, a best foreign language film Oscar nominee three years ago for France's Un Prophet, and features tour - de-force performances from Marion Cotillard, the best actress Oscar winner five years ago, and Matthias Schonaerts, the star of last year's Belgian nominee Bullhead.

And then there is a fictional story about U.S. use of chemical weapons code - named «Genoa,» based on a real 1998 story that got CNN in trouble.

Based on the 2002 novel by Alice Sebold, it's the fictional story of a 14 - year - old girl who is raped and murdered in 1973, and watches from heaven as her parents and family deal with their grief and search for justice.

It's kinda funny — for a film based on actual events, plot twists and turns unfold as if part of a complex fictional story of political intrigue.

We compiled many of the flicks that are headed to theaters this year that are based off of a novel, be it a true story or a fantastical (and obviously fictional) tale.

Iranian filmmaker Ghobadi examines the underground music scene in his country by telling a fictional story that's based on «real events, locations and people».

BH Tilt has just unveiled a brand new trailer for Birth of the Dragon, a fictional feature based on the true story of the legendary Bruce Lee.

Inherent Vice — based on the 2009 novel by Thomas Pynchon — is the latest from American writer - director Paul Thomas Anderson, this time brining his masterful skills to a 1970s - based fictional crime story filled with twisty turns, oddball characters, and lots of drug use.

This movie is based on a true story, but features a mix of historical and fictional characters (research indicates there was no woman on the initial 1935 team).

Since this is based on a true story, resorting to fictional characters serves to lessen the intensity of a tale that could've been quite compelling.

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

While I'm not sure how much of this film is fictional and how much is «based on a true story,» I do know that this event took place and watching this movie constantly makes you wonder what would have happened if it were successful.

The activity is based on a fictional story about the day of The Queen's coronation.

Jim's story is fictional, but heavily based on fact.

My upcoming book is set at a fictional college that is based on the college I attended, so I want to blog about specific places on campus, professors or classmates who inspired certain characters, and campus ghost stories that appear in one form or another in my novel.

The equivalent in theatre is perhaps audience participation, in film the «werewolf break» in The Beast Must Die (1974) or the message «Based on a true story» occupy a similar meta - fictional space, as does a good ol' fashioned cliffhanger of the kind associated with classic serial films such as Flash Gordon (1936) and almost exhausted of its possibilities in classic Doctor Who (1963 - 1989).

hack proved you can construct an interesting story based on this — but the main storyline in SAO: LS is to clear the fictional game's DLC.

Taking its title from the name of a fictional, post-iPhone device at the centre of Gary Shteyngart's 2010 near - future novel Super Sad True Love Story, Äppärät is concerned with labor, play and the uncertain zone between the two; with the extension of the body, and the self, through technologies ancient and contemporary; with things (to borrow Martin Heidegger's formulation) «present - at» and «ready - to» hand; with compulsion and with death Äppärät begins with Jessie Flood - Paddock's Just Loom (2015), a wall painting - cum - sculpture based on an illustration of a worker operating a loom from Denis Diderot's Encyclopédie (1751 - 72), one of the first attempts to record and systematize all human knowledge in published form.

A lone aeroplane, crashed in a desert, or a spooky house stood on a mountaintop — he crafts these based on his own fictional stories: «I thought of all of the everyday items that could be used for creating figures and found the boxes we used when we moved house,» says Juhamatti.

He attempts to create fictional & non fictional visual stories based on present reality.

It is a fictional story about a man who lives in a wood and uses photographs taken over a six month period, mostly around the area in rural Ireland where the artist was based.

The film is a fictional story of a jury of 12 men as they deliberate the guilt or acquittal of a defendant on the basis of reasonable doubt.

However, while the actual story was fictional, it was based on very solid facts, as you well know.

First there was lawyer - turned - sex - novelist Deidre Dare, whose erotic stories about a fictional BigLaw lawyer's party life in Moscow were said to be based on her real - life experiences there as a lawyer with Allen & Overy.

While these stories are fictional, they are based on very common situations.