In Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne, explorers follow lava tubes from an extinct volcano to a vast cavern 87 miles underneath Europe, exiting through a volcano in Sicily, in a highly
fictionalized depiction of the real phenonoma of lava tubes.
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.
Not exact matches
Films like The Blair Witch Project and Cannibal Holocaust falsely claim to be based on truth but are entirely
fictionalized, and sit better with most audiences: they toy with the
depiction of real - life crimes without the problem of exploiting people's deaths for ticket sales.
I was also tickled to read that «while the
depiction of barn raising in movies always seems to feature cheerful people singing and staying around for a dance that night, this
fictionalized version of barn - raising is not too far from the truth.