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Biopic Director
Mel Gibson
Genres:
Biopic s
Biography Movies
History in Film
Epic Films
Drama Movies
Adventure Movies
Cast:
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Brendan Gleeson, Angus
Macfadyen, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack, Brian Cox, David
O'Hara, Ian Bannen, James Cosmo, James Robinson, Sean McGinley
Tommy Flanagan
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Biography Films are also
known as Biopic Films (a combination of biography and pictures) that
are made to dramatize and depict the life of an important person or
persons in history or of our present day. Of course film makers don't
alway stick by the rules and go ahead make films about the lives of
just about anything.
Some people make the argument that biography movies can be made with
emphasis on the times and events surrounding the main character's life
and begin to classify this genre category as having sub-categories of
every other kind such as westerns, dramas, etc. We disagree because,
1. Biographical movies are already a sub-genre! can there be sub-genres
of a sub- genre?
2. Every character or characters already live in a specific time in
history with his own events occurring around him; those specific
circumstances and event were what helped create the main character(s)
and because films put an emphasis on the character himself we apply the
term "biopic"; and besides if this sub-genre has already been
classified as such, then what is it a sub-genre of? is it not of
westerns, dramas, musicals, adventure and the like. So there, we just
wanted to clear out some confusion about this so that no one gets
confused when visiting our page.
Welcome and thanks for visiting, by the way. This section of our
website is one of our favorites because we absolute love History as a
whole.
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A
little window into the past via motion picture or a book and into the
lives of those great men and women who have built shaped and reshaped
and rebuilt our tremendously amazing heritage is a truly, truly rich
gift.
But
in order to understand these "history lessons" produced by Hollywood
one has to be able to differentiate between fiction and fact; so we
must challenge the film makers' ideologies and contrast them against
the truth. Historical accuracy is critical here since biography movies
are not fiction but are about real people with real problems and
successes who really lived! How do we know this?
They
made history
We understands, however, that one of Hollywood's jobs (perhaps their
top one) is to dramatize stories, giving them the Hollywood feel, to
make it more appealing for folks to get into it. Now, I am no expert
(perhaps that' s a good thing), but of all the thousands of characters
that populate the awesome history of our race, I have yet to come
across one whose life isn't exciting enough, colorful enough,
interesting enough, or for that matter good enough for Hollywood.
That's
the little disagreement from us History lovers.
This
is not always true though, the real problem lies in finding
such movies; and again, here is where our job begins and since you
expect the very best in biography movies we do our best in bringing you
the best of in this "sub-genre" in this page! How exciting!
Ready?
Here are the most popular biography movies of yesterday and today.
Enjoy.....
Famous
Biographies
Biographies for Children
Biographies for Kids
Best Biographies
Historical Movies
History Movies
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