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{{quote|''"This simple formula rarely fails. Pick a deceased (or soon to be deceased) musician, artist or mathematician, make sure they're the sort of person the New York media could conceivably refer to as brilliant, insert a big name actor ([[My Friends and Zoidberg|or Gary Busey]]) to play the role; watch movie critics and audiences far and wide go apeshit."''|'''Adam Brown''' of ''[[Cracked.com]]'', on the subject of [[Oscar Bait]].}}
[[Based on a True Story]], but longer. The Biopic is... well a [[Shaped Like Itself|picture (or motion picture, rather) that tells a person's biography.]] It takes a real person's life and tries to create drama from the things that the person experienced, to a varying degree of success.
The difference between a Biopic and Based On a True Story is that the Biopic takes place under a much longer time-span, years as opposed to, say, a summer (''[[Finding Neverland]]''). The famous person must also be the story's protagonist.
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* ''Dragon: The [[Bruce Lee]] Story'' (Again, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|pretty obvious]] /{{spoiler|Death}})
* ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'' (Ed Wood /{{spoiler|"Success"}})
* ''[[Elizabeth (film)|Elizabeth]]'' (Queen Elizabeth / {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}})
** ''Elizabeth: The Golden Age'' (ditto/ {{spoiler|um... awesome moment of crown retention? or maybe death?}})
* ''Frida'': (Frida Kahlo / {{spoiler|Success/Death}})
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** Film-in-a-film/character as himself is also used in ''Beyond The Sea'', to justify Kevin Spacey's tiny bit of [[Dawson Casting]] - the subject, singer Bobby Darin died at a relatively early age.
* [[Tear Jerker]]
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: Viewers more knowledgeable than others about the subject matter are often aggravated by any changes made to the story, particularly reordering events and/or dropping them. Since different people have different ideas about ''what'' is important, this is extremely subjective. Also, it doesn't just apply to viewers—the subject and/or their friends/family might have issues with what is and isn't included.
* [[Time Skip]]: Another common way to handle the passage of time.
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