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Improving on Real Life
How biopics trim, mold and sometimes downright fictionalize their subject's lives to make them more cinematic.
Clearly, you can’t cram an entire lifetime into two hours — for a biopic to be truly complete and accurate, it’d run as long as its subject’s time on earth. So how do you make someone’s life into a movie?
This week on the IFC News podcast, we look at how biographical films trim, mold and sometimes downright fictionalize their subject’s lives to make them more cinematic and audience friendly, from de-gaying to skipping the difficult bits to dealing (or not dealing) with the tragic ending that, as in the case with “Amelia,” everyone knows is coming.
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Tags: A Beautiful Mind, Amadeus, Amelia, biopic, biopics, Che, De-Lovely, Domino, Night and Day, Ray, The Hurricane, Walk Hard, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Walk The Line
