Most and least authentic biopics

[Felicity, I guess so]

Oh and Berba speaks for me on this thread. I don’t think I’ve ever written that phrase before (winky smiley)

[Felicity, I guess so]

Authentic is an interesting idea in relation to biopics. I really liked the Gainsbourg one which had a giant paper maché puppet on screen the whole time alongside the actor and the larger-than-life elements were ‘authentic ‘ because every word of the script was taken from things he had said in interviews. Authentically exaggerated.

[Guy Profumo]

Have we done Being John Malkovich yet?

[Stumpy Pepys]

Authentic is an interesting idea in relation to biopics..

Yeah, I agree. Real life is often not very cinematic.

I read an interview with Eddie Edwards, discussing the Eddie the Eagle movie. He said the writers had taken liberties with several things, but he wasn't that bothered as it made for a better film and they were true in spirit if not in fact.

It's quite common, for example, to have a single character in a biopic who is a composite of several people.

[Foot of Astaire's]

Midnight Express was a prime example of Hollywood taking an interesting story and replacing it with one that is largely bollocks.

[Lang Spoon]

Biopics (especially of musicians or scientists) are terrible in the main. Always a moment of genius epiphany, a childhood trauma that explains character flaws. Walk Hard was great at cutting through all that.

[Hot Pepsi]

Midnight Express was a prime example of Hollywood taking an interesting story and replacing it with one that is largely bollocks.

For a second, I thought you meant Midnight Run, which isn’t based on a true story, as far as I know, and is excellent.

[Hot Pepsi]

I saw The Lost City of Z in a theater, because it got good reviews. It’s ok, but predictable and kinda pointless. It’s also not especially historical, which is especially disappointing, because the true story of a delusional crackpot would have been much more interesting.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poste...z-was-no-hero/

[Gangster Octopus]

If you want to see a particularly bad one, Lady Caroline Lamb is currently on Talking Pictures...

[Benjm]

If you want to see a particularly bad one, Lady Caroline Lamb is currently on Talking Pictures...

Settle down with glass of your own urine and enjoy!

[Hot Pepsi]

Biopics (especially of musicians or scientists) are terrible in the main. Always a moment of genius epiphany, a childhood trauma that explains character flaws. Walk Hard was great at cutting through all that.

Walk Hard is probably the best musical biopic ever made.