Fictionalization
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| - | To treat as or make into fiction: “has fictionalized his people and their town, but we know they are real” (Harper's). --AHD | + | '''Fictionalization''' is to treat as or make into '''fiction'''. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''." |
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| * To [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s | * To [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s | ||
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Fictionalization is to treat as or make into fiction. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "based on a true story."
Verb
- To retell something real as if it were fiction, especially by fabricating falsehoods
- To convert (adaptation) something into a novel or other dramatic work
In films and literature
In film and literature fictionalized usually means: based on a true story. Related terms are dramatization.
Examples
- Total Eclipse (1995), about Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), supposedly about Ed Gein, see false document.
- Heavenly Creatures (1994), based on a true story
- Schindler's List (1993), events of the Holocaust
- The Black Dahlia
- The Honeymoon Killers
