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biopic Definition

bio·pic (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

  • cash: Joaquin Phoenix is the talented star of movies such as Signs, The Village and most recently the Johnny Cash biopic Walk The Line.
  • film: The release also dovetails the forthcoming film biopic " See Me Feel Me " starring Mike Myers as Keith Moon.

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