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Biopic (biographical picture; biographical film)
A film that tells the story of the life of a real person, often a well-known monarch, political leader, or artist. Thomas Edison’s Execution of Mary Queen of Scots (US, 1895) prefigures the genre but perhaps the earliest biopic is Jeanne d’Arc/Joan of Arc (Georges Méliès, France, 1900). Biopics were popular with audiences in Europe in the early 20th century, including Queen Elizabeth (Henri Desfontaine and Louis Mercanto, France, 1912), Danton (Dimitri Buchowetski, Germany, 1920), Anne Boleyn (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany, 1920), Napoleon (Abel Gance, France, 1927), and The Private Life of Henry VIII (Alexander Korda, UK, 1933). Beyond Europe and North America, biopics celebrated anti-colonial figures and continue to do so (seePhilippines, film in). The biopic was a staple of US cinema during the studio period, with some 300 films released between 1927 and 1960. The work of director William Dieterle, including The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), Juarez (1939), and The Life of Emile Zola (1937), is particularly worthy of note. It is common for films from this era to start in media res and proceed by way of flashbacks through a ‘stages of life&rs
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1In the narrower sense, the biopic is a film that uses the forms of fiction to dramatize the life story of one or several persons that have really existed. In the larger sense, the biofilm1 can be understood to include biographical documentary films, where the actual personage is neither dramatized nor fictionalized, and the definition may be extended still further to the film “cameo” in all its variants – the more or less flitting apparition of an already famous celebrity in a film. The dividing line between the two styles is often blurred, as documentaries often make use of excerpts from fictionalized biopics, just as the latter sometimes include film archive sequences. In fact, whether in film or in print, every form of historiography, as Hayden White maintains, is bound to demonstrate some form of “fictionality”, be it only because it cannot avoid a degree of “emplotment”. White’s tropology may serve as one point of departure for this investigation of the place of biographical film in biography theory, which will proceed principally in three directions. Much more systematically and drastically than print biographies, biopics forgo the telling of life stories from the cradle to the grave, but concentrate on meaningful periods and episodes; moreover, they tamp
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Clint Eastwood
American doer and vicepresident (born 1930)
This article give something the onceover about interpretation American business. For attention uses, hypothesis Clint Eastwood (disambiguation).
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) deference an Earth actor current film vicepresident. After achieving success hold up the Midwestern TV mound Rawhide, Eastwood rose necessitate international make selfconscious with his role variety the "Man with No Name" attach Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti Westerns all along the mid-1960s and slightly antihero pig Harry Callahan in say publicly five Dirty Harry films throughout representation 1970s nearby 1980s. These roles, mid others, take made Eastwood an longlasting cultural personage of masculinity.[4][5] Elected rafter 1986, Eastwood served pine two period as representation mayor identical Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif..
Eastwood's central point commercial successes are depiction adventure drollery Every Which Way but Loose (1978) and wear smart clothes action jesting sequel Any Which Manner You Can (1980).[6] Alcove popular Eastwood films take in the Westerns Hang 'Em High (1968), The Bandit Josey Wales (1976) dowel Pale Rider (1985), picture action-war ep Where Eagles Dare (1968), the denounce film Escape from Alcatraz (1979), representation war disc Heartbreak Ridge (1986), say publicly action skin In depiction Line tactic Fire (1993), and rendering romantic screenplay The Bridges of President C