SEVENSES: Biopics
SEVENSES BIOPICS Welcome to a second edition of Sevenses. To get an idea of what that is, please read the first edition on westerns found here . In short, it is taking a similar group of films and choosing seven that might be distinct from most every other one or the best of a subgenre. It is not a tier list , and thus not a ranked list. A rule I made, I must own the film in a home media format to be considered. Biopics. It is a genre nearly as old as the film industry itself. If we, as a people, were not intrigued by others' lives, books about famous, and infamous, figures, would not have proven popular, and many of these include photographs. So, it was only fitting that moving pictures would follow suit. They are typically also drama and can literally be about anyone notable in her or his field, including presidents, inventors, musicians, sports figures, and in the vein of art imitating life, actors. A couple of common specifics often encountered in a biographical ...