I have never been so engaged with a script as much as I was with The Elephant Man. BBC Radio 4 Extra – Bernard Pomerance – The Elephant Man. Women, little understood either, can sympathize. See 2 questions about The Elephant Man. Treves realizes that he has been too harsh with Merrick and tells him that although he will write to Mrs. A young nurse reacts in horror seeing Joseph Merrick.
It is said that truth is stranger than fiction, which is why cinema owes a lot of its greatest accomplishments to reality. Biographical films are a special breed among movies based in true events, because they try to portray the evolution of real life characters through the most important events of their lives.
It’s a daunting task for the screenwriter, sometimes hard-pressed to fit decades of life into roughly 100-120 pages. That is probably why biopics often become monumental projects that bring the audience to a fast paced journey across a bunch of dissimilar environments.
But they are often the stories of those who shaped the world- for better or worse. And well written biopics seem to generally succeed in fulfilling the demands of reviewers and audiences alike. They are a challenge for the performer as well, compelled to carry most of the narrative weight through the whole shooting process. However, those efforts are often rewarded with wide recognition, and the Academy seems to have a certain weakness for biographical dramas.
A lot of moviegoers feel an inherent curiosity about watching the tale of a notorious figure in the big screen, and the list of famous –or infamous- individuals whose life has been adapted into a film keeps growing.
Here are some of the most acclaimed biopic film scripts of all time:
(1960) Spartacus
(1962) Lawrence of Arabia
(1967) Bonnie and Clyde
(1972) Lady Sings the Blues
(1980) Raging Bull
(1980) The Elephant Man
(1982) Gandhi
(1984) Amadeus
(1987) The Last Emperor
(1990) Goodfellas
(1992) Malcolm X
(1992) Chaplin
(1994) Ed Wood
(1995) Braveheart
(2001) A Beautiful Mind
(2002) Catch me if you Can
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(2005) Walk the Line
(2010) The Social Network
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(2014) The Theory of Everything