Sentences with phrase «fictionalized by»

In his collection of stories, Borges gives the «histories» of such infamous people as Billy the Kid and John Andrews Murrell — fictionalized by Borges as Lazarus Morell; while much of what he writes is relatively factual, an ongoing intrusion of invented and modified details causes a reader to question the overall veracity of his accounts.

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.

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.

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You might not have a compelling history, but don't try to compensate by fictionalizing your past.

«Other People's Money» by Justin Cartwright (Bloomsbury, 2011) is to the novel what the wonderful «Margin Call» is to film — a fictionalized but convincing account of high finance and the crisis of 2008.

Currently, novels written by evangelicals tend toward the propagandistic (even to the extent of fictionalizing Bible stories and foretelling the Second Coming) and away from the artful.

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GLOW, an acronym for «Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling» tells a heavily fictionalized version based on true events of what happens when down - on - his - luck Hollywood director Sam Sylvia (celebrity podcaster and comedian Mark Maron) attempts to cash in on the 1980s professional wrestling craze by creating a Saturday morning wrestling show with an all - female cast.

It's a completely fictionalized story written by the Editor of that DumbA * ss Christian C * RAP magazine... WHAT A JOKE!!!

Though Coover painstakingly researched his subjects, he has compounded the impact of his borrowings from history with fantastic excursions: the executions at Sing Sing Prison, for example, are transposed to Times Square; Richard Nixon is fancifully shown trying to win favor with Uncle Sam by extracting a last - minute confession from Ethel Rosenberg, only to make love to her instead; Nixon's fictionalized reward is his sodomization by Uncle Sam.

Snaith the boy read pulp thrillers, real history and fictionalized history by men like G. A. Henty.

Whit loved the I Survived series by Lauren Tarshis, which addresses enormous moments in American history through a fictionalized I - was - there lens.

by Stuart Clark Historical drama: A fictionalized account of the science and lives of Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei.

Though largely fictionalized, this is a moving report of the defense of the Pacific Island base, with strong emphasis on the heroic gallantry of three Manrines, played by Robert Preston, Brian Donlevy, and William Bendix.

Ultimately, The Miracle Season mistakes an inspiring true story for one that needs or deserves to be told cinematically; it isn't awful, but it's not a film, it's a tribute, and unfortunately, one to the memory of a young woman who would be better honored by people actually «living like Line» than watching a formulaic, fictionalized retelling of her community learning what that means.

The first chapter in the Shin Megami Tensei: Persona RPG series released for the PlayStation 4 features an episodic story about a group of high school students in a fictionalized version of Tokyo's Shibuya district who explore the Palace, an alternate world created by the hearts of other people.

1080p, AVC - encoded transfer for The Disaster Artist shows off all the polish you'd expect from a modern studio picture, even one with roots in low - budget indie filmmaking (represented by the windowboxed «footage» from the fictionalized filming of The Room.)

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.

In the fictionalized version of his life (written by the non-Yiddish-speaking Weinstein with help from Alex Lipschultz and Musa Syeed), he finds himself fighting for custody of his son Rieven (Ruben Niborski), who lives part time with Menashe's brother - in - law Eizik (Yoel Weisshaus).

These elements, unfortunately, can't elevate the weirdly uninvolving story, a fictionalized biopic about the obstacles overcome by Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano.

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.

Early on, though, I was reminded of patriarch Homer's warning to grandson Lonnie in Hud: that «little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire» — that our perceived, fictionalized, mythologized history becomes the template into which we slot our behaviour into an increasingly Pirandellian future.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Features Fictionalized Accounts of Dumb Ways to Die Anyone familiar with the endlessly amusing Darwin Awards knows that they have been presented posthumously since 1991 to individuals who have found the dumbest ways to kill themselves.

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.

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.

Now mix that trait with the overly ambitious persona of Bradley Cooper's FBI Agent and the US Attorney played by Alessandro Nivola, and you have a collision of worlds that results in a fictionalized account of the ABSCAM events of the late 70's and early 80's.

It's definitely a more sci - fi tinged account than the fictionalized version, with clandestine visits from the «Men in Black» and mysterious, conveniently - timed deaths, though the piece is undone by two - cent re-enactments that are impossible to take seriously.

by Walter Chaw Completed about a year after John Boorman's infinitely superior The General, Thaddeus O'Sullivan's Ordinary Decent Criminal is a sporadic «fictionalizing» of the life of Irish crime boss Martin Cahill that dresses up Cahill's exploits with slick visuals while attempting the unsavory task of doing exactly what The General was accused of doing: making urban terrorism and torture whimsical caper fare.

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.

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.

Inspired by Jandreau's perseverance, Zhao decided to build her next film around him, lightly fictionalizing certain aspects of his story but staying true to its spirit.

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.

Naylor's real antagonist is the progressive Vermont senator Ortolan Finistirre — a thinly fictionalized Bernie Sanders — whose persnickety liberalism is nicely exemplified by the thermal socks he wears under his sandals.

Alongside Robert Greene «s «Kate Plays Christine» (which you can find below in «Best Docs»), «Christine» is the fictionalized retelling, starring a career - best Rebecca Hall and directed by Antonio Campos.

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).

It should be noted, of course, that Mark Schultz's version of the events is readily available in the form of his memoir, Foxcatcher: The True Story of My Brother's Murder, John du Pont's Madness, and the Quest for Olympic Gold, which he is also promoting online while disparaging the fictionalized film directed by Bennett Miller.

My Dinner With Andre, directed by Louis Malle from a script by Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, who play fictionalized versions of themselves, became the surprise indie hit of 1981 and a cult film on the art house circuit.

Those people are pretty much absent from this admittedly fictionalized account of Seal's life, which treats him like a charming rogue — he's played by Tom Cruise, definitely not a lookalike — with motives more honorable than outright greed and corruption.

So does the more freely fictionalized «Professor Marston and the Wonder Women,» written and directed by Angela Robinson.

A fictionalized account of the last day of Oscar Grant III's life, the film opens with one of the real life cell - phone clips that captured the 22 - year - old Black man — lying on his stomach, about to be handcuffed — being shot in the back by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) policeman Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale stop in Oakland.

Todd Haynes» 1999 film «Velvet Goldmine» (Miramax) reimagines the Glam rock era and the iconic influence of David Bowie through the kaleidoscopic lens of «Citizen Kane» and the fictionalized persona of rock legend and bi-sexual pop icon Brian Slade (played by Jonathan Rhys - Myers).

It chips away at the cowboy - hero mythos in somber fashion by giving us a fictionalized - yet - neo-realistic account of a downhome dude who's trapped in his rustic surroundings, feeling like a person without a purpose.

In addition to original insights gleaned from Snowden and other real - life sources, Stone and Fitzgerald turned to two books about Snowden: The Snowden Files by British journalist Luke Harding (who co-authored another book that led to the WikiLeaks film, The Fifth Estate); and the fictionalized novel Time of the Octopus by Russian lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, who represents Snowden in Russia.

Inspired by Krystyna Chiger's memoir «The Girl in the Green Sweater» with references to Martin Gilbert's «The Righteous» and Robert Marshall's «In the Sewers of Lvov,» Canadian screenwriter David F. Shamoon takes dramatic license to fictionalize Socha's inner turmoil.

Hangmen Also Die (Cohen, Blu - ray, DVD) is Fritz Lang's fictionalized take on a real - life historical event: the only successful assassination of a major Nazi commander by the underground resistance in occupied Europe.

Judged side by side, Zero is a tad stronger, as it remains engaging while resisting the urge to fictionalize with a conventionally suspenseful finale.