Best/Favorite/Future Biopics

Started by MacGuffin, October 31, 2004, 09:33:15 PM

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grand theft sparrow

Would Stand and Deliver count? So many great lines in that movie.

"This is review! You're acting like a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there!"

"Don't gimme no guess. I'll jump on your face. Tattoo your chromosomes."

"I strangled him, his body's decomposing in my lockerrrrr..."


Also...

Basquiat
Before Night Falls
Malcolm X
American Splendor
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Amadeus
Lenny

and I think that Ali was great but that they should have focused more on his ENTIRE life, not just those 10 years.

socketlevel

nixon
jfk (if not for the man, then for jim garrison)
max
fear and loathing in las vegas

-sl-
the one last hit that spent you...

reelistics07

sydney

larry flynt

kundun

last emp

nixon

what about bob

cb4

about schmidt....no nevermind.actually yeah, thats pretty good.

and..... casino

and..... lightning over water

Pubrick

under the paving stones.

soixante

A few thoughts --

A friend of mine dislikes biopics because they always have the same unimaginative structure -- this happened, then this, then this happened, etc.  Basically biopics are locked into a rigid structure, and must slavishly adhere to depicting the "highlights" of someone's life.  I think it depends on how interesting the subject is.  Hence, Ed Wood is more interesting than La Bamba.

I don't think Bonnie and Clyde is a biopic -- it's a drama that uses real-life characters.  A biopic, in my opinion, deals with a longer time frame than most dramatic movies, and is really a character study of one person.

Raging Bull is one of the best biopics because it doesn't seem like a biopic.  It shows us all the highlights (and low points) of Jake La Motta's life without seeming like a Richard Attenborough-esque "Greatest Moments From Great Lives."

I just re-watched Lenny, and I think it influenced Raging Bull a great deal.

It is interesting to note that a bunch of biopics will be top Oscar contenders this year -- Ray, The Aviator, Passion of the Christ, Alexander.
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MacGuffin

Quote from: socketleveljfk (if not for the man, then for jim garrison)

But that's not even a biopic on Garrison. It's all about his investigation.
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rustinglass

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max

Yeah, god, noah taylor was great in that.

I have to see it again.
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MacGuffin

Amiel and Foster Play Picabo

The life of Olympic downhill skier Picabo Street will be the subject of a feature film from director Jon Amiel and producer David Foster. The underdog story has been cleverly pegged as Skibiscuit.

A writer and studio for the project are currently being sought. Street was born and raised in a hippie commune and overcame great odds to become a champion skier. Street won the gold medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan, and then shattered her leg into pieces just weeks after the Games. While doctors predicted she would never walk again, Street spent four years retraining herself to walk and ski again. She managed to work her way back and qualify for the U.S. Olympic team once again and was just enshrined in the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame.

Amiel and Foster collaborated on The Core and are ski buddies, along Eric Preston, who will serve as co-producer and introduced them to Street.
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potaty

what about man on the moon? one of the few films where jim carrey isnt totally irritating.
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cine

Quote from: potatywhat about man on the moon?
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Quote from: potatyone of the few films where jim carrey isnt totally irritating.
Get out.

potaty

what part of my statement offends you??

is it that i called jim carrey annoying?

or because i said he isnt annoying in man on the moon?
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cine

Sorry, I was just kidding around. Xixax is like that. So enjoy your stay.

But stand way the fuck away from me.

modage

haha!  i love this place!  merry christmas everybody!  :yabbse-grin:
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Pas

Wow who knew the concept of 'biopic' was so hard to grasp

Slimepuppy

Ok, so a dictionary definition of biopic is
"A film or television biography, often with fictionalized episodes."

I've always seen biopic as a story of a man's (or woman's) life. The combination of "epic" and "biography"...
Max, though a good film, is not a biography. It's a part of a man's life, but it deals with a specific timeframe which then goes onto define him (partially) as the person he ends up being. With Hitler, we fill in the gaps automatically, creating it into a biopic.

Then again, I do partially consider Ed Wood a biopic, as it spans the most "interesting" parts of his career.
Shit. I don't know...

Something like Citizen Kane strikes me as more of a biopic, in spite of its fictional protagonist.

We start falling into "dramadocumentary" category here, and that just confused the hell out of me in uni...

Again, all of this is presented as purely my own, somewhat humble, and quite obviously confused opinion.
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