Sentences with phrase «highly fictionalized»

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.

My book involves a lot of highly fictionalized accounts of events from Central America.

Band of Misfits is set in a (to say the least) highly fictionalized edition of the year 1837.

Called Mary: The Queen of the House of David and Mother of Jesus, it reads like a Harlequin romance of Mary's life: a paeon of praise to motherhood, with a highly fictionalized account of Mary as the chief exemplar.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Both shows were critical hits, and Shandling's meta approach — he frequently broke the fourth wall on It's Garry Shandling's Show, and his talk - show host character «Larry Sanders» was a fictionalized version of Shandling himself — has proven highly influential in the decades since.

Neither fish nor fowl, the highly - fictionalized Our Brand Is Crisis acknowledges that it was «suggested» by Rachel Boynton's same - titled 2005 documentary.

I highly recommend this fictionalized story of the Lindberghs (based on the author's deep research).