Medium problem with biopic

>>81504213
no clue, but i do have a question:
is it bi-op-ic or bio-pic? i don't think i've ever actually heard it said aloud.

>>81504244
Bio pic I suppose but I don't know

>>81504244
bio + pic :)

You can depict the life of an apprentice, or the studio life. You can show two painters working at a canvas over wine for example, which lends itself to dialogue.

>>81504434
But how is it different from two fictional painters talking and working? How is it related to his Vision and Masterpiece?

There is no way to present the beauty of painting in a movie.

There isn't even a way to present beauty of music in a movie, since there is now way to fit a full complete song into a movie

>>81504213
biopics themselves are useless, its basically the wikipedia article put on screen

>>81504244
I've read it as bi-op-ic for years. Then last week I heard someone say bio-pic and I realized the error of my ways. Good thing I don't ever actually talk to anyone or I may have looked foolish heh.

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>>81504650
>There isn't even a way to present beauty of music in a movie, since there is now way to fit a full complete song into a movie
Oh well I beg to differ.

https://youtu.be/OI3Bcgh4Jko

>>81504847
y-yeah, that's g-g-good

Mr. Turner was GOAT

>>81504213
You pick a narrative structure and shape the outcome to fit that.

For example, in van gogh's case you could do a "riches to rags and then back to riches + hubris = rags again"

or you could do a "outstanding genius is constantly at odds with their nemesis" and pick renoir or some artist they had maybe passed on the street one time.

or you could do "tortured X is plagued by Z and Y and eventually succumbs to blah"

literally anything. You can make a story about virtually anyone into virtually anything, as long as you have some pictures to show on the way.

>>81504213
Are you referring to "Lust for Life"? the Vincent van Gogh biopic with kirk Douglas because I was just wondering if that was worth watching.

>>81504726
Some (like above) are taken from a fictionalized novel of the known facts, if that helps us remember the significant lessons then I'm all for it.

>>81504650
Why couldn't you just stick a song in a movie? The song writing process, that's something that'd be difficult to accurately represent in a movie

>>81505001
well I understand that but how do you show van gogh's paintings then? His style wasn't photorealistic.

>>81505007
I don't know that biopic I just pick a not photorealistic artist for example

>>81505012
Well ok maybe you can put a song into a movie, like a musical. But musicals is songs that are tailored for them.
But real performance of real singers are long and distracting for the flow of movies. The Ray Charles biopic and Johnny Cash biopic for examples don't use their full songs. They only use the famous parts of their songs.

>>81505340
>well I understand that but how do you show van gogh's paintings then? His style wasn't photorealistic
Even Doctor Who of all things managed this. It's not hard.

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By the way Tim's Vermeer is a great movie. It educated me on how painters worked. So if biopic depict how a painter back then actually worked I would appreciate that

>But the problem is that the movie as a medium cannot depict the awesomeness of paintings.

Yes it can. Like this:

https://youtu.be/47h6pQ6StCk

>>81505878
Damn that looks interesting.

However it's actually an animated movie not a movie or painting either.