Often physical appearances are overemphasized, and we wind up with an over-emotional theme park sideshow. On the other hand, we make films all the time about personalities like Abraham Lincoln, Eva Peron, and Jesus, but more often than not they wind up lopsided along one axis or another.
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Usually it requires some extreme personality quirk or a political or historical significance in order to support the structure of any kind of serious movie storytelling. In other words, our best biographical films are not about the super-famous, and the super-famous do not, by themselves, make great subjects for great films.
Then maybe The Elephant Manor Malcolm X(depending on your definition of “famous”). The highest ranked biopic about a famous person, famous in the modern sense, where we mostly know what they look and sound like, is, arguably, The Social Network. Currently the highest ranked biopic on Flickchart is Goodfellas, but nobody knows how close Ray Liotta came to actually capturing Henry Hill’s mannerisms, and no one cares he’s not that kind of famous. Tuning those three dials perfectly is essentially impossible, and the task gets harder the more famous your subject is. Finally, you must still make a movie, with a beginning, a middle, and an end, protagonism and antagonism, artful production design, all that stuff. Next, you must understand and find a way to generate artificially whatever inner magic enabled your subject to make an impact on the world. First, you must get surface appearances correct, the look and the sound of the person. If you’re making a biopic about a famous person, you have a threefold problem.
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