Your favorite biopic?
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Black_Stride
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BertramCooper
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I agree that it's fantastic, but Amadeus definitely is not a biopic.
WorriedCitizen
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Why? I would say it definitely is. One could argue that it's not a conventional one tho.
VeryGooster
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La Bamba and Ed Wood.
BertramCooper
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Because it's pure fantasy. Biopics usually have at least some basis in reality. Amadeus is a phenomenal film, but it's almost entirely fiction.
Period drama? Yes. Biopic? No.
WorriedCitizen
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So you're saying Mozart didn't exist, he never lived around the time where the movie plays, all the music is made up, he wasn't a nutter etc? Of course the film is fictionalized and over the top but where do you draw the line? Some soviet era film about the life of Stalin is probably more fantasy then Amadeus.
That a biopic is fictionalized is part of it. They are not the same as docus or docu dramas.
Para bailar La Bomba
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No only is this my fave biopic, it's my fave movie period.
bengraven
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I'm gonna say it now for future posterity:
Colin Hanks for the EviLore biopic:
"Call me..."
Eh?
Messypandas
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passion of the christ. especially the screaming
BertramCooper
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The crux of the entire film - that Salieri despised Mozart, renounced God, and led Mozart to an early grave - is a complete fabrication with little basis in reality.
If you were to ask Milos Forman or Peter Shaffer if the film were a biopic, they would almost certainly say no. Neither the film nor the play it was based on were designed as such.
It's a phenomenal film. But it's not a biopic. You might as well classify Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter as a biopic if you're going to count Amadeus as one.
I love Ed Wood! +1. Albeit there's probably also a lot of fiction involved.
That is ridiculously hyperbolic. A more apt comparison would have been Rudy.
NEOPARADIGM
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same
mattiewheels
And then the LORD David Bowie saith to his Son, Jonny Depp: 'Go, and spread my image amongst the cosmos. For every living thing is in anguish and only the LIGHT shall give them reprieve.'
Jimmy Boyle a sense of freedom.
I got it:
24 Hour Party People.
An unpretentious film about a completely pretentious twat. You'll love it, trust me.
Nice suggestions, thank you.
And as for 24hr Party People, one of my favorite movies. Funny how I forget it's a biopic. I love the jokes about Viny Reilly in too.
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