Sentences with phrase «fictionalized for»

That all said, the actual flip shows are just as fictional, though flip men seem to have a bit more accuracy on some numbers, but lots of the «issues» are dramatized and fictionalized for TV.

I think investigative work like this is a good antidote for scientific data being modulated or fictionalized for political or ideological purposes.

Although the specifics about the Minneapolis Police Department's operation were conveniently fictionalized for the sake of the story, the bravery and decency of the officers depicted in the book certainly mirrors reality The novel features a very inventive and shocking computer game.

It is odd that Phillips chose to significantly dramatize David and Efraim's story, because if you read up on what actually happened (I highly recommend Guy Larson's 2011 Rolling Stone article — or his eventual book — on the subject), it's actually crazier than almost anything he fictionalized for War Dogs.

Not exact matches

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.

A fictionalized note from a Christian baker: To our dear and beloved customers, Creator Cakes has served this community for over two decades.

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.

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.

In 2:2 - 7, for example, it is improbable, to say the least, that we are reading a theoretical, fictionalized allegory.

However, when one think of year online adult dating club one Internet you think of has club where members meet online for coils, fictionalizes and sex search.

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.)

«Bound for Glory,» a lavishly fictionalized 1976 recounting of the life of troubadour Woody Guthrie was nominated for six Oscars and won two — and it moved David Carradine, briefly, from a TV lead who made B movies to an unconventional movie star.

Warwick Davis, best known for his role in Willow, plays a fictionalized version of himself.

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).

Sidney Lumet's crime drama fictionalized a basically true story about a man who attempts to rob a bank in order to pay for a sex change operation for his male lover.

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.

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.

Jesse, now a successful novelist who's bankrolled on fictionalizing his relationship with Celine, fights to keep the fantasy alive, while Celine is in danger of indulging her diminishing love for him.

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.

Fitting for a game set in a fictionalized Los Angeles, Dead Rising 3 is primarily about commuting.

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.

For her fun fictionalized memoir of sorts, Greta Gerwig has painted a coming - of - age tale almost entirely in shades of grey.

It's a bold move for Cheadle to make, brazenly fictionalizing part of this telling of the life of a real person in a genre that is often criticized for not telling the whole truth, but ironically it's the made up stuff that works the best here.

Warner Bros has debuted the first official trailer for Clint Eastwood's The 15:17 to Paris, telling a fictionalized version of the story of three men who thwarted a potential terrorist attack on a train in France in 2015.

A fictionalized creation that's not in the book, if you're looking for the barest of superficial character texture, you're thanking the gods Peter Jackson and his co-writers invented her.

Keep in mind that the following nominations don't include artists nominated for nominally playing fictionalized versions of themselves, including Aziz Ansari in «Master of None,» Issa Rae in «Insecure» or Pamela Adlon in «Better Things.»

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.

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.

It would be a remarkable film even without its backstory: Director Valérie Donzelli and her co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm also star, playing fictionalized versions of themselves from the moment they fall in love to the exhaustion of their years caring for their child.

A lot of it is fictionalized, but a lot of it, too, is stuff we wanted to see them doing and wrote for them.

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.

Ewan McGregor plays Mills's fictionalized stand - in, Christopher Plummer his father, and for good measure, Mélanie Laurent plays a French actress / love interest.

For years, Hollywood's attempted to adapt Salinger's unfilmable classic, Catcher in the Rye, so instead of bringing that piece of assigned high school reading to the screen, Strong endeavors to fictionalize its conception.

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.

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.

Morgan specializes in such fictionalized character studies of historical figures, with both The Queen (Helen Mirren) and The Last King of Scotland (Forest Whitaker) leading to Oscar win for the actors in the title roles.

If he only worked with these four actors for the rest of his career, he'd probably never make another bad movie again, because this fictionalized account of the ABSCAM scandal looks guaranteed to land Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Amy Adams and Jennifer Lawrence on Oscar ballots again.

The idea is for the filmmaker to make a fictionalized version of his or her own teenage years set in the appropriate period (different in each film) and to include at least one party scene in which pop songs of that era are used.

Haynes revisited the film in November when he recorded a brand new commentary track with producer Christine Vachon for the film's Blu - ray debut and talked with Videodrone about the revisiting the film, its reverberations with his other fictionalized biography «I'm Not There» and, as always, what he's been watching.

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.

This is a playful, somewhat fictionalized account of the life and times of Irish gang - boss Martin Cahill, and a fine return to form for writer - director John Boorman.

«The Rider» is a lightly fictionalized account of a Sioux rodeo rider (Brady Jandreau) for whom cowboy and Indian traditions are merged.

Almost Famous is a fictionalized account of Crowe's experiences writing for Rolling Stone in the mid 1970s, when he was only fifteen.

Meanwhile, director Roland Emmerich («Independence Day») takes a break from blockbusters for «Stonewall,» a passion project that is a fictionalized account of the riots between LBGT bar - patron protestors and police that gave birth to the gay - rights movement in 1969.

The former Olympic athlete hit the red carpet for the Los Angeles premiere of I, Tonya, a movie that fictionalizes her life as a professional figure skater and her ultimate fall from grace.

I really enjoyed the piece, even though it was sort of surreal to watch a fictionalized version of the dynamic shared by stars Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (the director and writer team responsible for You're Next, parts of V / H / S and V / H / S2 and the upcoming The Guest).