Sentences with phrase «on fictionalized»

TG: Where did you get the inspiration to begin work on this fictionalized, mystical and parallel world?

While Ackroyd & Harvey document a mock British trial based on a fictionalized account of a major environmental disaster, Erika Blumenfeld works directly with carbon, collecting contraband to create an index of the fires that ravaged the Southwest over the past two years.

As with its predecessor, it was also later ported to the PlayStation under the name of Ace Combat 22 - and although the arcade version (as with its predecessor) takes place on Earth, the PlayStation version of the title apparently takes place on a fictionalized version of Earth.

The Wedding Cake Girl, which is set on a fictionalized version of Catalina Island, is about a girl, a scuba diver and aspiring marine biologist.

My most popular historical fiction novel, Target Churchill, centers on a fictionalized Soviet conspiracy to assassinate Churchill in order to prevent him from delivering his «Iron Curtain» speech in Fulton, Mo., in 1946.

I can't get enthused for a budget that relies on fictionalized revenue projections to reach balance, even as it calls for massive tax cuts.

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.

Not exact matches

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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».

And it was there in the warm South Seas — the other side of the world from the city where men like Fly were «pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks» — that at age twenty - three he found Nature's own paradise on an island in the Marquesas and in the arms of a woman he fictionalized as «Fayaway» in Typee (1846), the scandalous first novel he wrote upon his return.

«It was LaHaye's idea to fictionalize an account of the Rapture and the Tribulation,» according to his bio on the official Left Behind website.

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.

Those days come to life in Lords of Dogtown, a fictionalized take on the acclaimed 2001 documentary Dogtown and Z - Boys.

Based on autobiography of the same name, the heavily fictionalized flick centered on perhaps the most prominent case of the detective's decorated career: the 1981 mystery over the rape, murder and mutilation of an East Harlem nun.

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If Einstein's version of the universe is correct — and experiments done over the last century suggest that essentially it is — then the fictionalized feats based on his theories might be possible as well.

In her new play, Boy, now on stage at the Clurman Theatre in New York City, playwright Anna Ziegler presents an engrossing, fictionalized account of the Reimer case.

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.

Though it fictionalizes and chronicles a depressing (and violent) American crisis, it belongs on everyone's must - watch list this summer.

We've had more than enough superhero movies set in New York or fictionalized versions of other American cities, more than enough action movies set in London or Los Angeles, more than enough fantasies that draw on European mythologies.

Opening with a postmodern preamble explaining that this version of events is based on «irony - free, wildly contradictory, totally true interviews» with Harding and her ex-husband Jeff Gillooly (now Jeff Stone), the chatty, fourth wall — breaking black comedy — think The Big Short on ice — conveys much of its humor and humanity through fictionalized talking - head interviews with Tonya, Jeff (Sebastian Stan), and her mother LaVona (Allison Janney).

Paul Bettany plays Charles Darwin in «Creation,» a fictionalized account of the writing of «On the Origin of Species.»

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.

As you can see, the play Mortimer and Wells are working on follows a fictionalized version of the show's fictionalized version of the actresses, so things are getting very meta in the show.

The tale of French acrobat Philippe Petit's 1974 attempt to walk a tightrope between the Twin Towers already formed the basis of an Oscar - winning documentary, Man on Wire, so we assume Zemeckis has a strong shot with this fictionalized retelling featuring a heavily accented Gordon - Levitt.

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.

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.

(The film is fictionalized, but Mike is based on Mike Naumenko of the band Zoopark, and Viktor on Viktor Tsoi of Kino.)

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.

With better production value and more talented actors, Alex & Emma would have had a chance to be much better, as the high - concept story lends well to intriguing developments in both stories (reportedly based on the creation of Dostoyevsky's «The Gambler»), the fictionalized and the «real - life.»

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.

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 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.

So, where does that leave «The Walk,» director Robert Zemeckis» fancy, fictionalized docudrama version of the grandest act of poetic terrorism ever committed on American soil?

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.

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.

GM: I play a fictionalized version of myself, but everything I say on stage is something that has actually happened, even if the timeline of my life doesn't exactly match up with my stage persona.

An extraordinary translation of life into art, Chloé Zhao's drama fictionalizes the experiences of Brady Jandreau, a Lakota cowboy on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation...

Now, A&E has announced that it's starting development on a Lampoon show of its own, a «fictionalized» series based on a recent documentary centering on those same events.

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.

A fictionalized telling of a real historical event, Howard Hawks» Air Force (1943) follows an unarmed Boeing B - 17 Flying Fortress named the Mary - Ann that unknowingly enters the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Her character, modeled after James Carville, is a fictionalized take on a 2005 documentary that deta...

I suspect novelist Peter Ackroyd, whose 1994 novel Dan Leno & the Limehouse Golem (aka The Trial of Elizabeth Cree) this is based on, wanted to fictionalize the Jack the Ripper killings (which occurred just a few years later) to comment on the numerous injustices of Victorian culture, which unfortunately still resonate today.

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.

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.

This offers a somewhat fictionalized account of Florenz Ziegfeld, a producer who dreamed big and spent freely on his ambitious shows.

The film is a fictionalized retelling of the Philippe Petit story that was previously covered in Man On Wire.

Steve Carell signed on to star in Robert Zemeckis» fictionalized version of the documentary Marwencol way back in 2015, and now Deadline is reporting that he's finally getting some company in the form of Leslie Mann and Janelle Monáe.

Always a bit partial to films based on a true story, I would have to label this as a fictionalized historical period piece, and a step above most costume dramas (though the costumes here are quite stunning).