Biopic vs. Biography — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Biopic and Biography
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Definitions
Biopic
A film or television biography, often with fictionalized scenes.
Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events.
Biopic
(film genre) A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).
Biography
An account of a person's life written, composed, or produced by another
A film biography of Adlai Stevenson.
An oral biography.
Biography
Biographies considered as a group, especially when regarded as a genre.
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Biography
The writing, composition, or production of biographies
A career entirely devoted to biography.
Biography
A person's life story, especially one published.
There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.
Biography
The art of writing this kind of story.
Biography
(transitive) To write a biography of.
Biography
The written history of a person's life.
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Biography
Biographical writings in general.
Biography
An account of the series of events making up a person's life
