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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

See also

• story
• truth
• true crime
• reality
• fiction
• false document