biopic
biopic
Definition
☆ bio·pic (bī′ō pik′)
noun
Informal a film dramatizing the life of a famous person
Etymology: bio(graphical) + pic(ture)
biopic
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- legend: Taylor Hackford's Ray is a firm biopic of the late music legend Ray Charles.
- singer: MTV Films are to make a biopic of legendary jazz/soul singer Nina Simone, starring Mary J. Blige in the leading role.
- life: This is not a biopic of the life of de Sade.
- year: When Martin Scorsese made Kundun, a biopic of the early years of the Dalai Lama a few years.. .
Converse of object
- make: He could make a biopic of Francis Ford Coppola.
- base: The pair responsible for the porn documentary Inside Deep Throat wrote and directed this biopic based on James St. James's book Disco Bloodbath.
- direct: Tarantino to direct Hendrix biopic Quentin Tarantino is to direct a biopic about guitar legend, Jimi Hendrix.
- see: At last year I saw another music biopic, Ray.
Adjective modifier
- new: This year he's hoping to start work on a new biopic about the Thin Lizzy front man, Phil Lynott.
- forthcoming: The release also dovetails the forthcoming film biopic " See Me Feel Me " starring Mike Myers as Keith Moon.
- musical: The musical biopic is hardening into a formula of lots of suffering and then final salvation.
- upcoming: Morrison, the grandnephew of movie legend John Wayne, will appear in an upcoming biopic called ' The Duke ' .
- recent: Yet despite the recent biopic staring Salma Hayek - a long-standing fan of Kahlo - she remains somehow shadowy.
- ordinary: We really want to capture the adventuresome and pioneering spirit he brought to Napster in a way that is not the ordinary biopic.
Modifies a noun
- genre: But that's just a weakness in the biopic genre rather than a fault of this movie.
- love: Many years later, she played Farrow herself in the biopic Love and Betrayal: The Mia Farrow Story ( 1995 ).
Noun used with modifier
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