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A biographical film, or biopic ( /ˈbaɪɵpɪk/; abbreviation for biographical motion picture), is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films “based on a true story” or “historical films” in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.
Because the figures portrayed are actual people, whose actions and characteristics are known, biopics are considered some of the most demanding films of actors and actresses. Johnny Depp, Jim Carrey, and Jamie Foxx all gained respect as dramatic actors after starring in biopics: Depp as Edward D. Wood, Jr. in Ed Wood (1994), Carrey as Andy Kaufman in Man on the Moon (1999), and Foxx as Ray Charles in Ray (2004).
In rare cases, sometimes called autobiopics, the subject of the film plays himself or herself: Jackie Robinson in The Jackie Robinson Story; Muhammad Ali in The Greatest; Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back; Patty Duke in Call Me Anna; Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant; and Howard Stern in Private Parts.
Biography
Read between the lines – with trustful open eyes he
said
It’s surprising what you’ll find – he laughed and
burned them ‘to my head
I read the first sites – saw letters changing into
words
Saw sentences flying – pictures that I never could
describe
A closing chapter – sites and stories one and another
Paragraphs, some sorted as in a farewell letter
This book makes me furious!
Some lines cause extreme loss
Most lines are so beautiful
Seems to be written ‘bout one of us
But it caught me – no chance to stop at all
Each word is printed in such a dreadful clarified form
A closing chapter – sites and stories one and another
Paragraphs, some sorted as in a farewell letter
This book makes me furious!
Some lines cause extreme loss
Most lines are so beautiful
Seems to be written ‘bout one of us
The final chapter – ‘tough the story’s just begun
So while I’m reading the writing’s never really done
This book makes me furious!
Some lines cause extreme loss
Most lines are so beautiful
Seems to be written ‘bout one of us
Read between the lines
It’s surprising what you’ll find
So I read the story of my life