Like most storylines, they drew inspiration from this real-life event.
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The filmmakers were inspired by a recent real-life event in Santiago.
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What's surprising is the way the final Splatfest, a real-life event, is woven into the fictional story.
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Known for her mysteries, Cha uses this incendiary real-life event as the basis for her latest novel.
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Add some humor — sparinglyA fun real-life event is a good opportunity to lighten the mood without looking fake.
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It's already hosted another real-life event focused on privacy and surveillance, a pop-up last year called The Glass Room.
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It glosses over this terrible real-life event with not even the barest mention of the victims or what they went through.
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It helps ensure that they sound like the audio is coming from a real-life event and not from a pair of speakers.
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Where to watch: The real life event takes place on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018, at the Marcy Armory in Brooklyn, New York.
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Turns out, the truth is stranger than fiction and writers have discarded real-life event as plot points to make the show seem more plausible.
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The school shooting in my novel was based on a real-life event — the shooting at Heath High School in Paducah, Ky., which happened in 1997.
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Any real-life event can become an event inside Explore as long as it's popular enough amongst users and there is enough content to create a channel.
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"The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!" is a memorable line from the classic episode, one that was loosely based on a less-entertaining real-life event.
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Students can work alone, in pairs or in small groups to fill in each blank with at least one real-life event or person to which each of the quotations or standards might apply.
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In "Jonestown" (1996) he addressed that horrific incident through a narrator named Francisco Bone, who slides out of reality and wanders across history and cultures as he explores the implications of the real-life event.
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Recent research says one of the elements that affects how and why humans laugh is a "play frame," something that puts a "real-life event into a nonserious context" and allows us to laugh at it.
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With "Sister Aimee," the writers and directors Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann turn a bizarre, real-life event from the 1920s — the sudden disappearance of the celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson — into a mischievous feminist fable.
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Relevance is one of the great shibboleths of criticism, and after a real-life event as dramatic and complex as this year's election, the temptation to seek clues and answers in works of popular art is almost overwhelming.
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Sonoma County Supervisor Shirlee Zane called the power outages "man-made disasters" and said that while they've compounded issues — her residents can't pump water from wells without electricity — they also helped them practice for a real life event.
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For the showgirls, based on a group called the Golddiggers who performed at the real-life event with Jerry Vale, the designers fashioned white daisy-lace bell bottoms and bralettes with long, beaded fringe, care of a doorway curtain.
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The search engine, dubbed Hoaxy, is the latest effort to combat the proliferation of fake news, which proliferated during the U.S. presidential campaign, with one bogus post-Election Day story sparking a real-life event when a gunman fired shots into a Washington, D.C., restaurant.
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The movie's attempt to make a real-life event into an action movie, and raise the stakes by telling an audience what they're seeing is a "true story," requires it to distort the events of September 11, 2012 — in some cases twisting it beyond recognition.
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Hawaii Emergency Management Agency Administrator Vern Miyagi The unnamed employee, who is said to have worked with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency for over 10 years, had on at least two prior occasions confused a drill with a real-life event, Hawaii Emergency Management officials said.
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Daniels, 63, leads To Kill a Mockingbird as lawyer Atticus Finch, who defends a black man accused of raping a white girl (the story is loosely based on a real-life event Lee witnessed near her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, in 1936, when she was 10 years old).
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This episodic Hitman treats plots as layers to a real-life event, not as general arcs you're force-fed when you pull the right levers on your way from A to B. In Paris, you have to seek out all the different happenings that occur simultaneously over roughly 30 minutes.
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Joy does all that, but also incorporates an assistant to help you navigate, provides customizable designs, an app for updating info and tools for handling the real life event such as the ability for guests to upload their photos as they take them and share on a big screen during the reception.
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R. Known primarily for her mystery novels, Cha uses a real-life event — the murder of 238-year-old Latasha Harlins at the hands of a Korean store clerk, and a precipitating cause of the 2500 LA Riots — as an impetus for an exploration of the lives of two families, one Korean and one black, who are still reeling from a similar incident that happened decades ago.
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The popular drama series Khaani is said to have been inspired by the real life event of Shahzeb Khan's murder.
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Like director Carlo Lizzani's previous film Wake Up and Die is based on a real life event, specifically a bank robbery that went wrong in Milan on 25 September 1967.
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Wyspiański's play was based on a real-life event: the wedding of his contemporary, Lucjan Rydel at St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, followed by the wedding reception in the village of Bronowice.
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David Balfour is accused of being an accomplice in the Appin murder, a real life event. The characters of Alan Breck Stewart, Colin Roy Campbell, James Stewart, Cluny MacPherson and Rob Roy MacGregor were real people.
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The story of doctors who try to uncover the truth behind industrial accidents. It also factors in real life occupational hazard events that happened to real South Korean citizens by tailoring the drama to the real life event.
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A Young Dramatist rebels against his fascist Tutor to form his troop of misfits – aiming to win a prestigious theatre competition and trying to find the hardest thing of all: his voice. Inspired by real life event 'Purushottam' Theatre Competition in Pune, India.
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Based on a real-life event. Chris takes his Aunty to her local Conservative Club for Christmas party only to find his Aunty has a grudge with another club member Elizabeth. As the night unfolds Chis has trouble controlling his Aunty as the night descends further into embarrassing conflict.
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An alternate ending was shown for the overseas broadcast of the drama. The scene depicts the lawyers in a silent protest in support of Hong Kong's continued judicial independence. Raising the Bar Alternate Ending. Retrieved March 12, 2015 The scene is in reference to the real life event that happened in Hong Kong during the "White Paper" protest in June 2014.
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In fact, above-mentioned Red Porsche Killer was designed especially for a race against Holgi that first occurred in the comic book Werner Eiskalt (1985), and in 1988 even became a real-life event between Brösel and Holgi with thousands of Werner fans gathering for the race at Hartenholm. The race was repeated in 2004 at the Lausitzring and another repeat is planned for end August 2018 at the original location.
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The climactic "Christmas Story" rescue was based on a real life event that occurred during the Korean War. On March 22, 1952, Douglas A-1 Skyraider pilot Lieutenant John Howard Thayer, from VF-194 based on , came to the aid of fellow squadron pilot Ensign Kenneth Schechter, who had been blinded by anti-aircraft fire. Thayer guided his friend to a safe landing at K-18, a U.S. Marine airfield.
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An event reported in the Bulgarian press inspired the film. One of the film's directors (Petar Valchanov) stated in an interview: In another interview, the directors elaborated that in constructing the screenplay of the film, they take the superficial parts of real-life stories reported in the news media. A separate real-life event that the directors incorporated into Glory was an incident where an architect is forced to apologize.
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The short-lived series began where the movie left off with the young widowed father (DeYoung) raising his stepdaughter (Elizabeth Cheshire). In the John Denver Biopic Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000) it is played when Denver (Chad Lowe) takes his new glider out for a Test flight. This final scene is based on the real life event that killed Denver in 1997. The 1996 re-recorded version is the one that is played.
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Later, Bill (thinking Running Moon has also been killed) is given a chance to run (similar to the real life event of John Colter) and is chased by warriors whom he initially eludes by hiding in a beaver den. They pursue him until he and Heavy Eagle fall into a raging river. Heavy Eagle makes it to shore and Bill goes over a waterfall. Heavy Eagle tries to make Running Moon his woman again which he cannot do.
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Lloyd Webber used accounts from within the novel in the musical as well such as the real-life event of the chandelier falling. This was first produced in the mid-80s and has continued to remain popular, still running on Broadway and the West End and spawning multiple touring productions. The musical has received more than fifty awards and is seen by many as being the most popular musical on Broadway. Leroux's novel was made into two silent films.
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The storyline was compared to the real-life 2014 Glasgow bin lorry crash, with four similarities made between the fictional crash and the real-life crash, and described as "deeply unfortunate". A BBC spokesperson said, "We would never knowingly imitate a real life event. Parallels can be drawn with many of our storylines. However, with the amount of stories that we tell of characters in extreme situations, it is hard to avoid dramatising situations that can occasionally be reminiscent of real life events".
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At the Bar () is a 2007 Turkish crime drama film, written and directed by Serdar Akar based on a real-life event that happened in Ankara, Turkey in 1997, featuring Nejat İşler as the head of a gang which brutalises, murders and rapes a group of young friends. The film, which went on general release across the country on , was shown in competition at the 26th Istanbul International Film Festival and marketed as the most violent Turkish film ever made.
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Neerja is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language biographical thriller film directed by Ram Madhvani and written by Saiwyn Quadras and Sanyuktha Chawla Shaikh. It was produced by Atul Kasbekar's company, Bling Unplugged, alongside Fox Star Studios. The film features Sonam Kapoor as the title character, with Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tiku and Shekhar Ravjiani in supporting roles. The plot is based on a real-life event: Libyan-backed Abu Nidal Organization's hijacking of Pan Am Flight 73 in Karachi, Pakistan, on 5 September 1986.
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Most British comedy films of the early 1970s were spin- offs of television series. Recent successful films include the working-class comedies Brassed Off (1996) and The Full Monty (1997), the more middle class Richard Curtis-scripted films Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Notting Hill (1999) the pop-culture referencing Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End), and a movie based on a real-life event The Boat That Rocked (2009).
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Musician Shawn Colvin reappeared as Rachel Jordan in the episode. "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" was written by Julie Thacker and directed by Chuck Sheetz as part of the twelfth season of The Simpsons (2000–2001). The idea for Praiseland came from the Christian theme park Heritage USA that was built in Fort Mill, South Carolina in the 1970s. The gas leak that occurs in Praiseland in the episode is based on a real life event that has happened at Disney World.
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The six-episode series answers the main question concerning the extent of her complicity: As the only student left alive after the shooting, did she conspire with her boyfriend who planned the attack or is she an innocent bystander? Fagerman, himself, dies in the shooting leaving Maja as the sole focus of international media attention. Quicksand is not based on a real-life event but the story was written to reflect real-life class inequalities that its creators saw in Sweden.
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However, the symptoms of the breakdown were not based on any real-life event but were intended to portray the effects of intense stress experienced by many airmen. Major General Pritchard was modeled on that of the VIII Bomber Command's first commander, Major General Ira C. Eaker. Colonel Keith Davenport was based on the first commander of the 306th Bomb Group, Colonel Charles B. Overacker, nicknamed 'Chip'. Of all the personalities portrayed in Twelve O'Clock High, that of Colonel Davenport most closely parallels his true-life counterpart.
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Horn's first film acting credit was in 2006 for the CBC television mini-series Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis (for which she had been present at the real-life event sixteen years earlier). Horn landed a role in the 2007 drama film The Colony, directed by Jeff Barnaby. In 2008, she appeared in the TV film Moccasin Flats: Redemption and was nominated for a Gemini Award for her role. She also appeared in Journey to the Center of the Earth that year, starring Brendan Fraser.
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Outside of the events mentioned above, Niantic has held multiple one- off events, official or in cooperation with other organizations. On 7 May 2017, the first real-life event was held in Charlotte, North Carolina. The first such official Go event in Europe was held in Chester, United Kingdom, on 22–23 July 2017 during the annual Chester Heritage Festival in partnership with local non-profit Big Heritage. It was estimated that during the two days, between 16 and 18 thousand players visited the city.
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I'm not really sure that they're individuals: they're part of a much larger thing." Danny Goffey added, "They're the sort of people who don't fit in anywhere, who don't link up with everyday life at all." "Caught by the Fuzz" was based on a real-life event: Gaz Coombes' arrest and caution for possession of cannabis aged fifteen. In a 2004 interview, Coombes said "It wasn't trying to be a real statement, but at the time we knew that it was a big deal.
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On release, the novel attracted some controversy because of its similarities to a real-life event. A close friend of the families involved was reported as saying that the novel was ‘insensitive’ and that ‘They're horrified and appalled to think that someone would drag up the case again just as the media interest was beginning to die down.’ Author Kevin Power stated that he did not research the Murphy case while writing the book. He was quoted as saying ‘I would hope they won't react badly.
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It also refers to the Galician slaughter of 1846. The plot is set at the wedding of a member of Kraków intelligentsia (the Bridegroom, played by Daniel Olbrychski), and his peasant Bride (played by Ewa Ziętek). Their class-blurring union follows a fashionable trend among friends of the playwright from the modernist Young Poland movement. The play by Wyspiański was based on a real-life event: the wedding of Lucjan Rydel at the St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków and his wedding reception in the village of Bronowice.
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Kick-starting through a critically acclaimed film, Subhash went on to act in Hindi films. Her next film Chausar, in Hindi language, was based on the real life event in Uttar Pradesh, where a woman revolts against the society when she was sold by her husband. Directed by Sagar Sarhadi whose 1982 film Bazaar is critically acclaimed, Amruta called this author-backed role as a "dream come true". The same year, she played the title role in the television film Nirmala, directed by Gulzar, based on Premchand's novel of the same name.
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A fictitious new made-for-TV movie is announced, based on a real-life event Conan has mentioned. Conan then says he has the inside scoop on the movie's casting. Viewers are shown two photos side-by-side of a person or thing who will be portrayed in the movie and the person that will be playing the role. The casting first starts off with people who strikingly resemble the person they are playing but then goes off to extremes with, usually, objects or fictitious characters bearing some resemblance to the person they are playing.
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A fictitious new made-for-TV movie is announced, based on a real- life event Conan has mentioned. Conan then says he has the inside scoop on the movie's casting. Viewers are shown two photos side-by-side of a person or thing who will be portrayed in the movie and the person that will be playing the role. The casting first starts off with people who strikingly resemble the person they are playing but then goes off to extremes with, usually, objects or fictitious characters bearing some resemblance to the person they are playing.
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Hollywood Story is a 1951 American film noir crime film directed by William Castle starring Richard Conte and Julie Adams.. The film was an attempt by Universal Pictures to take advantage of the success of Paramount's Sunset Boulevard which was released the previous year. The plot is based on the notorious murder of silent movie director William Desmond Taylor. While Hollywood Story reaches a fictional conclusion, it follows the circumstances of the real-life event closely. Upon the release of the film, Universal promoted the appearance of several once famous silent screen celebrities.
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The film stars Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh and Sunny Deol as another revolutionary Chandra Shekhar Azad. The film received a mixed reception from critics, with some good reviews. Rediff.com believed the movie had plenty of good moments, and plenty of bad ones and believed the film was superior to that of the original on Bhagat Singh, although they believed the agony of Bhagat Singh's fight was underplayed, diminishing the brutality and anguish suffered in the real life event. While Bobby was praised for some scenes, he was criticised for shouting and Rediff.
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8:'...Robson, from the Olympic, has unknowingly enriched the stock of political song by giving vogue to 'Vilikins' and 'The Ratcatcher's Daughter', two tunes now doing good service to three rival parties.' one being Foster's "The Great Baby Show".Lyrics "Ballad of John Dean":a comic balladSong sheet based on a real-life event in New York. The youngest daughter of wealthy liquor merchant John G. Boker eloped with her father's Irish coachman, John Dean, and was disinherited.New York Times, 5 March 1860 : 'OBITUARY - MR. JOHN G. BOKER.
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A Steady Rain is a play by Keith Huff. With a plot similar to a real-life event involving Jeffrey Dahmer, it focuses on two Chicago policemen who inadvertently return a Vietnamese boy to a cannibalistic serial killer who claims to be the child's uncle. When he later becomes the man's latest victim, the lifelong friendship of the two men is threatened when it becomes clear someone must bear responsibility for their egregious failure to assess the situation accurately. The play alternates between two separate monologues and present-moment dialogue scenes.
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For Vidathu Karuppu, Naga adapted Indira's other book Vittu Vidu Karuppa which according to writer Indira was germinated from a real-life event where the dreaded gangster who was feared by everyone had the fear and respect for deity Karuppana Samy. Naga cast different actors for Vidathu Karuppu since "the audience has to decipher everyone's character based on their background story." Chetan was cast as Rajendran based on his "features and soft-spoken nature". Devadarshini was chosen to play important character after Naga saw her anchoring in a television show.
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Grand Master Philippe Villiers de l'Isle Adam Taking Possession of Mdina is a painting by the French artist Antoine de Favray from 1750. It depicts Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, a Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, entering the city of Mdina and taking possession of it in a ceremony known as the possesso. The real-life event which is the subject of the painting took place on 13 November 1530, shortly after the establishment of Hospitaller rule in Malta. The painting is an iconic representation of Hospitaller Malta, and it is located within the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta, Malta.
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After all the workshops, Decker sat down and wrote a script that incorporated the best scenes they had created. In one draft of the script, she included a real-life event that had happened between her and Howard, and when she realized that it had crossed a line between the character Madeline and the actual Helena Howard, she decided to take the script in a more fictional direction. Decker realized from that experience that the character Evangeline would have enjoyed crossing boundaries like that, so she started incorporating that desire into her character. Decker continued this collaborative style during production.
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On the day of the hijacking, the airport was being used to film scenes for the movie Entebbe, which is about the 1976 hijacking of Air France Flight 139 and Operation Entebbe, which resulted in the release of most of the passengers and the deaths of the hostage takers. Scenes from the hostages exiting the Afriqiyah plane were filmed, edited and inserted in the movie. Producer Melvin Rotherberg has qualified this "real-life event" as a "blessing from the sky on a day of bad acting." Some passengers were subsequently cast as supporting actors in the movie.
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Race Wars is a drag racing event in the movie The Fast and the Furious, which describes the underground illegal racing scene in Los Angeles, California, that character Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his team invent. Race Wars is not mentioned again until they reference it in the seventh installment of the Fast and Furious franchise, Furious 7. The event consists of drag races where racers compete for large amounts of cash or pink slips, while beautiful women dance around the cars and throughout the event. There is a real life event based on the movie that occurs in multiple places throughout the world, including Australia and Royal City, Washington.
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Players in Grant Park during Pokémon Go Fest 2017 In June 2017, Niantic announced a new "Pokémon Go Fest" event, which was held in Chicago's Grant Park on 22 July 2017 as the game's first official real-life event. Tickets to the event, priced at US$20, were sold out within fifteen minutes of its release for sale, despite the details of the event not having been revealed then. Scalpers were reported to have attempted to resell the tickets through resellers for inflated prices. Later, it was revealed that players worldwide and players at Grant Park would contribute towards a catching target, which would unlock rewards.
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Australian Rolling Stones reviewer, Darren Levin, rated it at four out-of five stars and explained, "'Do you want it back?' she asks the man she was supposed to marry, before devoting an entire verse to the awkward practicalities of an engagement gone sour. This man is not metaphorical, and neither is the marriage. Each song, says Washington, is connected to a real-life event – from the frank confession of infidelity on the raw ballad 'Begin Again' to 'Get Happy', where she falls in love over Eighties New Wave textures... On [this album], she's both fearless and direct." It provided singles, "Who Are You" (February 2014), "Limitless" (May) and "My Heart Is a Wheel" (September); a music video was created for the latter.
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The gambler Poker Alice lived for a time in Creede as well as several other locations in Colorado. In the 1976 film The Shootist, terminally ill gun fighter J.B. Books (portrayed by John Wayne) relates that he had just seen a "sawbones" (slang for a doctor or surgeon) in Creede when questioned about his symptoms. The final scene in the 2007 drama The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (as well as the real-life event it depicts) takes place in a saloon in Creede, where Robert Ford is gunned down by Edward O'Kelley 10 years after Ford killed Jesse James. The scene itself was shot on a $1 million set in Alberta that recreated much of 19th century Creede.
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On 14 February 2005, Rula Sa'd, the Director of Marketing and Promotions at the LBC acted in her role as "Director of the Academy" to announce to the contestants that Rafiq al-Hariri had been assassinated and that Lebanon was in mourning. This was one of the only instances in the show's history that a real-life event had intruded upon The Academy. Like other Lebanese channels, LBC suspended its regular programing to focus all attention on the aftermath of the assassination, including a ten-day hiatus of Star Academy. The show resumed on Friday, 25 February with an episode that critics deemed "The Patriotic Night" during which the contestants, along with Arab celebrities and contestants from past seasons came together and sung a number of patriotic songs in solidarity with the mourning nation.
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Among the other scripts he wrote was the sixth season episode "Subway", which featured a man becoming pinned between a subway car and train platform, leaving him only about an hour to live. Yoshimura was inspired to write it based on an episode of the HBO hidden-camera documentary show Taxicab Confessions, where a New York City detective discussed a similar real-life event. The episode won a 1993 Peabody Award for excellence in television broadcasting, and received two Emmy Award nominations during the 50th Primetime Emmy Awards season, including one for Yoshimura for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series. David Simon, a writer and producer who worked on Homicide: Life on the Street, suggested Yoshimura as a possible writing partner when he was pitching the mini-series The Corner to HBO executives, but writer David Mills was chosen instead.
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Cover of the first edition of La Secchia rapita by Tassoni, printed in the maps Ronciglione in 1624 La secchia rapita (The stolen bucket) is a mock- heroic epic poem by Alessandro Tassoni based on the real life event, the War of the Bucket which was first published in 1622 (see 1622 in poetry); it tells of a war between the Italian cities of Modena and Bologna over the possession of a wooden bucket that later influenced Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock. John Ozell translated the poem as The Trophy Bucket in 1710: seeing his opportunity, Edmund Curll reprinted this item in June 1713 after the success of Alexander Pope's work. "La secchia rapita" is also the name of a comic opera by Salieri, first performed in Vienna in 1772; two of the arias from the work was recorded by Cecilia Bartoli on her Salieri album.
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