Fictionalization
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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'''." In reality all fiction is ultimately based on true stories since as Poe said in 1850: "The mind of man can [[imagine]] nothing which has not really existed." | '''Fictionalization''' is to treat as or make into '''fiction'''. A clue for noticing a fictionalization is the phrase "'''based on a true story'''." In reality all fiction is ultimately based on true stories since as Poe said in 1850: "The mind of man can [[imagine]] nothing which has not really existed." | ||
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| - | * To [[retell]] something [[real]] as if it were [[fiction]], especially by [[fabricate|fabricating]] [[falsehood]]s | + | |
| - | * To convert ([[adaptation]]) something into a [[novel]] or other dramatic work | + | |
| == In films and literature == | == In films and literature == | ||
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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." In reality all fiction is ultimately based on true stories since as Poe said in 1850: "The mind of man can imagine nothing which has not really existed."
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
