Sentences with phrase «with fictionalized»

Is it considered unethical to embellish a memoir with fictionalized elements?

In this powerful view of African American history, award - winning author and illustrator Nelson combines 44 arresting, full - page paintings with the fictionalized, informal narrative of an African American elder.

Now, though, memoirs have emerged as a dominant form, often with fictionalized details and dialogue.

And just when you think you've slipped into a horror movie, Wakamatsu reminds us that, while this is a dramatization with fictionalized elements, it is based on history.

As it is told to us, this story is a true one, albeit with fictionalized names.

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.

Their work is not to be confused with the fictionalized conspiracy theories of Dan Brown's best - selling novel The Da Vinci Code, but their popular success is not unrelated to his.

Not exact matches

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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.

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.

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.

Wakefield's best - known novel is Starting Over, a fictionalized autobiography which was made into a successful motion picture with Burt Reynolds playing Wakefield.

Religious discourse is, of course, replete with such stories — from the biblical stories of Jacob, Joseph, Jesus, and Paul, to modern equivalents about religious converts, to such fictionalized variants as Luke Skywalker and Indiana Jones.

Wiley describes it as a «total joy» to play Detective Mathers, a no - nonsense LAPD homicide detective who is partnered with an actor (Veronica Mars» Ryan Hansen as a fictionalized version of himself) to solve crimes.

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Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens is set in Tokyo during a fictionalized version of the Taishō period, with players taking the role of Ichiro Ogami and

Jandreau is a real - life Pine Ridge rodeo rider, playing a barely fictionalized version of himself, and director Chloe Zhao (Songs My Brothers Taught Me) brings a documentarian's eye to his story, augmented with some striking photography making the most of the movie's picturesque Badlands geography.

As Argo rushes toward its obstacle - course climax, the story becomes increasingly fictionalized, with last - minute phone calls, cross-cut action, dread - filled delays and angry guards shouting in unsubtitled Farsi.

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.

(The performers all play fictionalized versions of themselves, but with a different surname.)

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.)

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).

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).

As those scenes progressed, the dialogue and situations between them felt far more fictionalized than his work with the CIA, NSA, or the scenes taking place in Hong Kong.

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.

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.

It's the story of P.T. Barnum (except it's fictionalized), with Hugh Jackman heading a magnificently idiotic musical, featuring bad Pasek & Paul songs.

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.

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.

Bullock and Clooney co-produced the film, which is a fictionalized account of a Bolivian election that was fought and won with American campaigning strategies.

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.»

I say fictionalized because the film starts with a banner that states «Some of this actually happened».

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.

It's said to mirror many of the true life trials of Eminem's life, much in the way the rapper's last film, 8 Mile, was a fictionalized story with real life inspiration.

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.

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.

Here, she's fashioned a fictionalized account of the double - suicide pact between Heinrich von Kleist (Christian Friedel), author of The Marquise Of O and many other notable literary works, and Henriette Vogel (Birte Schnöink), a woman he barely knew but succeeded in persuading to die with him (mostly because she believed herself to be terminally ill).

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.

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 the film is book - ended with scenes of the fictionalized Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) after the war, dealing with his conscience at a beachside resort in Monaco.

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.

Since leaving the studio fold a decade ago, Miller and his screenwriter / producer wife, Jody Savin, have turned out a string of modestly budgeted indies with name casts and solid production values but no real personality, the best of which, 2008's «Bottle Shock,» was another (heavily fictionalized) slice of «70s nostalgia about Napa Valley's emergence as a world - class wine producer.

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.