And for me, writing fiction has always been a way. Even though I fictionalize the characters and I fictionalize the situations, it's always been a way for me to address complicated emotions that I have myself.
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento’s 1845 novel, “Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie,” “Civilization and Barbarism,” is a prime example. It’s a fictionalized biography of the titular Facundo, who’s pretty much the platonic ideal of the corrupt caudillo. But… he’s not one hundred percent fictional.
You don't have to tell your story. You can tell a fictionalized version of the story. So when we auditioned for people, I saw these tapes of these-- because that's how people cast things now, are tapes.
Bill, what is the biggest difference between your book and the show, "I'm Dying Up Here?" Mine is true. And theirs is fictionalized , based on the real events. But they didn't do the real characters.
So the stories were sort of inspired from real live events by Andrew Stern. And he fictionalized them. And then me, not knowing how to make a fiction movie, really, I just set about it like I would a documentary.
In this way, the Latin American story — or stories really — shed light on all of our stories. Much of “Terra Nostra” focuses on a fictionalized account of the real-life Spanish King Felipe the Second. Who was a true nepo baby — he inherited his entire kingdom from his dad.
And so it's a crazy star. So it's like a fictionalized version of reality.
about Benjamin Franklin's sister than I had on Afong Moy. So I wondered whether it might be just easier to fictionalize this account, taking some liberties, since I had so little information. If that made more sense, it certainly would have taken a whole lot less time.
And that's what it is. People heap suffering on themselves when really it's a fictionalized reality. It's not real suffering.
And I'll squint and I'll look from different angles, and it's inevitably a false alarm. My other books had had a kind of very fictionalized version of me, a very, very hyperbolic, artificial version of the I,
So I didn't. I became a computer science major. Was there a temptation to kind of stick to this fictionalized history of events that happen past 2015?
juries, not to be presented in the courtroom. And the argument that they're giving is that not only was the book co-written and he claims that he had a ghostwriter so he didn't exactly know what was in there. But he also embellished or fictionalized elements of the book to help sell copies. But the judge shot that argument down.
Here are the Curly Notes. Published in 1946, “El Señor Presidente” tells the story of a fictionalized dictator who rules over an unnamed country with an iron fist. Known only as “the president,” he rarely appears in the text.
And so I'm curious. And even the story that I shared during "Modern Love," we've now opened it up and fictionalized it, but I certainly didn't want to pretend that I
And it's been really fun to get back into Smashing Pumpkins. It's kind of like when you watch those movies, those fictionalized movies about people who go back to high school and re-fall in love with their high school sweetheart.
He was the last recruited and the last to be publicly exposed, and he is also the least well known. I'm sure some of you have read accounts of the other four, perhaps also seen fictionalized portraits of the other four. You might have seen "The Imitation Game," which also has a portrait of John Cairncross, which I'll talk about a bit later.
No. Do you know why the playwright, Terrence McNally, chose to axe Bartoks and Rasputin? I assume it's because what Lila was saying at the beginning is that they're going for a fictionalized realism for this tale, loosely based in history.
But as you can see, they are highly stylized and very fictionalized .
So it's the career through my eyes, but it's fictionalized .
rough halfway house. Anyone who has read "Infinite Jest" will recognize immediately the halfway house is fictionalized .
Holly Corbett: It'll be exciting to see, but it'll be very fictionalized so -- Lee: Of course.
different way and explain a really fascinating life and make it that much more fascinating and and fictionalized and it's going to be sort of in the
And in this case, you've taken stories you've heard and changed it into a fictionalized version.
Cindy Wade, when she was making the documentary, did ask Laurel, how would you feel if people would want to fictionalize this?
And Cynthia Wade, when she was making the documentary, did ask Laurel, how would you feel if people would want to fictionalize this?
And so I knew I wanted to write a play, basically, about a fictionalized Congressman living two lives like he did.
But I, we-we did think like, "Wow! This really must mean that the sea change is upon us." And-and travel and hopefully stories led by strong women -- that it will be fictionalized .
And it was a comic strip called Barnabus The Wonder Dog and it was really just about him and my family and our adventures, sort of slightly fictionalized . And I had the most