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* Its basic definition is, essentially, "staging of a story." It isn't just creating a story but expressing it, presenting it to the audience in an art form. Even if the story is true it has to be presented like a fictional account, such as depicting the exact words spoken in a conversation where no one possess a transcript of it.
* When a story is [[Ripped from the Headlines]] or [[Inspired By]] a true story, this word means "we changed a bunch of stuff to make it less boring." Or else it's something whose publication in gory detail can be tolerated only if the creators can say [[
* As a [[Advertising Tropes|commercial disclaimer,]] it means, "We used special effects to make this commercial, so [[Don't Try This At Home|don't expect our product to actually do this stuff]]." Applied to a lot of truck ads. (See [[Do Not Attempt]]). Also applied to "endorsements" by "ordinary people", who are in fact actors reading scripts. (This latter meaning has recently been subverted by: a series of ads for satellite TV in which famous actors do readings of ordinary people's letters to the satellite TV company; a series of car-insurance commercials featuring an actual celebrity seated with an actual customer, attempting to make their stories more gripping, usually by poking fun of their own image.)
* Accompanies less-than-accurate reenactments on "true-crime" shows like ''[[America's Most Wanted]].''
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Gundam|Gundam Sousei]]'' is what happens when you tell the story of how Gundam was conceived and turn it [[Up to Eleven]].
* ''[[Macross|Macross: Do You Remember Love?]]'' movie is the dramatization of the original ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'' TV-series. It was later retconned to be an in-universe movie.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[300]]'' is basically a Dramatization [[Inspired By]] the conflict it represents, and makes no secret of this. As someone aptly summed-up, "This isn't the way it happened. This is much cooler."
* ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' is based on the the defection in 1961 of a Soviet submarine under the command of Jonas Pleksys (1935
* ''[[Twelve O'Clock High]]'' includes what [[The Other Wiki]] calls "a thinly disguised version of the notorious Black Thursday strike against Schweinfurt" during [[World War II]].
== [[Literature]] ==
* See ''The Hunt for Red October'' in ''
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* ''[[Kill Time or Die Trying]]'' by Neil T Stacey and Christopher Dean is a dramatisation of their time at the University of the Witwatersrand.
== [[Live
* The Investigation Discovery channel lives on this trope. Sometimes it gets borderline pornographic, since they often recreate scenes of people having torrid affairs in extreme detail.
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