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    The bio-pic fryst vatten a genre of extremes. The best ones share a uniquely powerful artistic authority, but merely ordinary ones are truly disheartening. The trouble isn’t only that of inflated prestige; bio-pics are disproportionately prominent during awards season and therefore ballyhooed nearly to oblivion. The form’s peculiar place in the art of movies is inseparable from the reasons for its exceptional prominence in the business. For producers and studios considering which projects to green-light, bio-pics check a lot of boxes. The protagonists are people who audiences are already familiar with and interested in. (J. Robert Oppenheimer may be the exception that proves the rule; he’s less famous than Freddie Mercury, but the atomic bomb fryst vatten more so.) And the illustrious people who inspire bio-pics offer great showcases for actors. That attracts stars, which in vända attracts audiences. Bio-pics bathe the producers, the studios, and the filmmakers in the reflected renown of their protagoni

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    List of biographical films

    Year Film Subject(s) Lead actor or actress The Story of the Kelly GangNed KellyFrank MillsThe Origin of Beethoven's Moonlight SonataLudwig van BeethovenHarry BaurThe Life of MosesMosesPat HartiganEdgar Allen PoeEdgar Allan PoeHerbert YostSaul and DavidKing DavidMaurice CostelloKing SaulWilliam V. RanousPyotr VelikiyPeter the GreatPyotr VoinovSweet Nell of Old DruryNell GwynNellie StewartCharles II of EnglandAugustus NevilleCuster's Last FightGeorge Armstrong CusterFrancis FordCleopatraCleopatraHelen GardnerFrom the Manger to the CrossJesusRobert Henderson-BlandAdrienne LecouvreurAdrienne LecouvreurSarah BernhardtGiuseppe Verdi nella vita e nella gloriaGiuseppe VerdiEgisto Cecchi The Life and Works of Richard WagnerRichard WagnerGiuseppe BecceSixty Years a QueenQueen VictoriaBlanche For

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    Biographical film

    Film genre

    A biographical film or biopic ()[1] is a film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or group of people. Such films show the life of a historical person and the central character's real name is used.[2] They differ from docudrama films and historical drama films in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a single person's life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.[3]

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    Biopic scholars include George F. Custen of the College of Staten Island and Dennis P. Bingham of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis. Custen, in Bio/Pics: How Hollywood Constructed Public History (), regards the genre as having died with the Hollywood studio era, and in particular, Darryl F. Zanuck.[4] On the other hand, Bingham's study Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre[5] shows how it perpetuates as a codified genre usin