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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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