We live in a golden age of historical fiction, from Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” adapted for television by Barry Jenkins, to Mark Sullivan’s bestseller “Beneath a Scarlet Sky,” in…
Sometimes filmmakers hew to the facts but, as Booker Prizewinning novelist Mantel stated: “facts are not truth.” So filmmakers compress, fudge and shift the order of events in order to deliver a fresh, compelling narrative — and, perhaps, a closer approximation of the truth.
“Minimizing the amount of time increases the amount of freedom you have. We’re not trying to say who Diana was, but make an exercise of memory and identity and humanity,” he adds. The script is a fable, not a documentary. Writer-director Sorkin also uses a tight time frame for “Being the Ricardos.” Sorkin’s latest unfurls over a week of production of the famed sitcom “I Love Lucy” with Nicole Kidman cast as Lucille Ball opposite Javier Bardem’s Desi Arnaz.
In contrast, Green’s “King Richard” takes the long view. The sports drama about the making of tennis champions Venus and Serena Williams, who executive produced, focuses on their father, Will Smith’s Richard Williams, and the family dynamics that contributed to the women’s success and stress. Green drew from that fatherson connection, saying: “My father demanded excellence. But he did it with a sense of care and protection for his boys, and a deep sense of pride. I could relate to those traits in Richard. I could relate to a man who was using the tools he had to do the best he could. Not always perfect. But always in pursuit of perfection.
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