Biopics often make popular movies by highlighting extraordinary stories of people who experienced and shaped history.
Biopics offer new perspectives on historical figures and events.
Biopics can help viewers see how many historical figures were complicated people.
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This is an authentic portrait of his complicated legacy.
What makesAmadeussuch an effective biopic is the fact that it makes remote historical figures seem downright modern.
Instead, it highlights how a life involved in organized crime always leads to some kind of destruction.
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The movie showcases what Lynn had to overcome as an artist.
5’Raging Bull' (1980)
Raging BullstarsRobert De Niroas the titular former middleweight boxing championJake LaMotta.
The movie is based on LaMotta’s 1970 memoir, “Raging Bull: My Story”.
The movie humanizes LaMotta, and emphasizes how much he struggled throughout his life.
2’Oppenheimer' (2023)
Directed by Christopher Nolan
Oppenheimerchronicles the life and career ofJ.
Robert Oppenheimer(Cillian Murphy), considered the father of the atomic bomb.
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