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Roman à Clef
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A fictional account of Real Life events, loaded with Captain Ersatzes of real people. These are often autobiographical or Ripped from the Headlines. These differ from Inspired by… and Very Loosely Based on a True Story in that the story is not dramatized, merely retold with different proper nouns. (Which isn't to say that no Artistic License whatsoever is taken.) Historically, many of these have been a great success merely from people in high society buying them to figure out if they are one of the characters. The name is pronounced "Ro-mahn ah cley."note /�ɔmɑ̃ a kle/ in French It's French for, roughly, "novel with a key" (read: decoder ring). As seen here on The Other Wiki, sometimes the key to who the names were supposed to be would be published and in circulation. It has nothing at all to do with unusual Italian musical notation or Dr. Alto Clef. This literary technique also runs the risk of provoking the Streisand Effect. Compare Very Loosely Based on a True Story, Biopic, Docudrama, Anonymous Ringer, Historical Domain Character, No Historical Figures Were Harmed. For an inversion, see Biography à Clef, where Captain Ersatz of fictional characters and events are retrofitted to tell the life of the artist and creator. See also Spell My Name with a Blank. Examples |
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Many Hunter S. Thompson books - for example, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - are novelizations for events in his life, with the names of he and his lawyer friend changed to aliases. This almost certainly helped avoid implicating himself in several felonies he somehow got away with. | |
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The Hamiltons in East of Eden are based on John Steinbeck's own relatives, without even changing their names. Events drawn from Steinbeck's own boyhood are interspersed among main plot points concerning between the Trasks and Hamiltons. | |
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The oldest anime film to survive, 1943's Momotaro's Sea Eagles, is a Wartime Cartoon showing the attack on Pearl Harbor as carried out by an Imperial Japanese Navy manned by cute, cuddly animals. They're attacking "Demon Island"—but Demon Island is drawn to look just like Oahu and Pearl Harbor, the battleships are tied up in two rows just like Pearl Harbor, the ships fly American flags except the flags have one big star, and "Aloha Oe" plays on the soundtrack as the Japanese planes swoop in. | |
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It's widely implied that Temperance Brennan in Bones does this, too. | |
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Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks which is, for all intents and purposes, the history of his family (with the author himself being Thomas Buddenbrook's son Hanno). | |
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The characters of Ron and Mark on Parks and Recreation are loosely based on real people whom the creators met while researching the show. Notably, the person who inspired Ron was a woman, if you can imagine (like Ron, she was a Libertarian who didn't believe in the mission of her own job). | |
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Many police procedurals, starting with the archetypal Dragnet. Other examples include some of Jack Webb's other series, such as Adam-12, although that often drifts into Very Loosely Based territory. Modern-day procedurals often keep the criminal's real name (if convicted). Which makes for a crappy protection as simply googling the murderer's name will reveal the real name of his victims. Hilariously enough, TV Guide once quoted (during the run of the short-lived reboot series) a producer from Dragnet as saying that he told the writers to just make a story up, and chances were that something like it happened somewhere. Something similar happened on one of Webb's own productions, Project UFO (with cases drawn from the U.S. Air Force's "Project Blue Book" reports), according to series star Edward Winter: |
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The very premise of Castle is that the eponymous author is trailing Detective Beckett around for inspiration. While the plots of his novels don't draw directly from the cases he "consults" on, the characters do. This is no secret in-universe. A method actress cast as Castle's protagonist Nikki Heat even got in-character by joining him in following Beckett around to learn her mannerisms. And Beckett's not even his first muse. The protagonist of one of his earlier series, Clara Striker, is based on a CIA agent he shadowed. No word on who "inspired" his one male protagonist, Derek Storm, but based on his track record, the in-universe real life version is probably walking around somewhere. | |
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The original Scarface is largely inspired by the life of Al Capone, but with plenty of fictional elements put in as well. | |
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The Red Shoes (1948) overlays the Faust legend on the life of the infamous ballet impresario Serge Diaghilev, despite claiming that "any similarity to real-life persons or events is completely accidental." The movie turns one of Diaghilev's real-life lovers into a woman but removes the sexual tension, so Boris Lermontov (the film's version of the impresario) still comes across as a diabolical homosexual. | |
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The Sun Also Rises is a classic example, with Ernest Hemingway basing all the characters on people in his literary circle. | |
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The 50's sci-fi show One Step Beyond was allegedly this. In many cases the veracity of the strange plots of the episodes can actually be confirmed. | |
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Prince of the City takes place in the early to late 1970's as opposed to the late 60's to early 70's, and it changes the characters' names. Other than that, it hews very closely to actual events. The book it is based upon is non-fiction, using the real names, and the contains many, many quotes and references taken directly from the book. | |
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Also, in the Nero Wolfe short story See No Evil/The Squirt and the Monkey Wolfe 'decodes' a comic strip for a clue to a murder. | |
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My Favorite Year: Alan Swann is loosely based on Errol Flynn. | |
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Invoked in-universe in Saving Grace, when at the end after Grace publishes a novel based on the events in the movie, her new boyfriend dismisses the allegations that he is a criminal as described in the book, by saying he and the character in the book are different nationalities. | |
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Elie Weisel's Night is generally labeled a novel, although it is an account of his experiences | |
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Grave of the Fireflies, which was based on the author's childhood during and after World War II, except in this case, his Author Avatar, Seita, dies with his sister, Setsuko. The author had blamed himself for the death of his sister from malnutrition and had written the novel as a way to make amends to her. | |
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The artist behind the autobiographical Joe vs. Elan School changed all the names in the story, including his own. He mentions that he's done this not to protect the names of the people involved, but out of extreme fear of retaliation. | |
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Velvet Goldmine. Interesting in that it is two Roman a clef put together: that of David Bowie/the emergent glam rock scene as well as Citizen Kane (a Roman a clef itself), with bits of Oscar Wilde thrown in. | |
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Entourage is based on Mark Wahlberg's meteoric rise to fame and notoriety. | |
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Dana's Story is based on an interview given to the humanitarian charity and aid agency CARE International by an actual woman who fled persecution and war in Syria with her two young sons and her attempt to reach Vienna, where her daughter and sister are. Dana is not the interviewee's real name, it was changed to protect her identity. | |
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Parodied in the faux disclaimer at the start of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy | |
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Bombshell (1933) features Jean Harlow as Lola Burns, in a satirical take on the life of Clara Bow. Lola wants to get married and retire to the desert, which Bow did in Real Life. | |
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Biz Markie has stated that "Just a Friend" is based on a true story, although the girl's name has been censored as "Blah, Blah, Blah" to protect her identity. | |
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Discussed in The Moon is Blue: Patty once had an affair with a writer, and months after breaking up with him was shocked to read a short story in The New Yorker written by him telling what was identical to the story of their break-up except for the names. | |
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The plane crash at the start of Final Destination is obviously based on TWA 800. It's same plane, same route, same cause, same group of students going to Paris; Roger Ebert criticized this as being a bit tasteless. | |
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Brown's Pine Ridge Stories: The names of individuals who were still alive at the time of its publishing in May 2014 were changed or omitted altogether. | |
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Long Day's Journey Into Night is based more or less on episodes from Eugene O'Neill's own youth. O'Neill deliberately refused to allow the play to be published or produced until after his death, probably out of worry that he would be too closely identified with the play's protagonist, Edmund Tyrone. (O'Neill had a brother named Edmund who died in infancy, like Edmund Tyrone's brother Eugene.) | |
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Casino extensively utilizes this trope for almost all of the real-life figures in the story. | |
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The Making Of The Goodies Disaster Movie inverted this, revolving around a totally fake story but starring real people without names changed. The back of the book did a Dragnet-parodying disclaimer: "The story you're about to hear is true. Only the facts have been changed, to make it more interesting." | |
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A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov features numerous characters from the literary world of the 20's Russia as well as the actors and employees of the historical MAT (Moscow Art Theatre), disguised as the Independent Theatre, starting with Konstantin Stanislavski, famous due to his method. | |
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The Dear America series, which is in diary format. Usually it will recreate things that happened in history, only on a smaller scale and before the actual event happens. | |
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an account of James Joyce's life up to the point where he left Ireland in self-imposed exile. Joyce changed the names, using some of those of real people for characters that don't stand in for them, and shuffled around some of the scenes, but reading My Brother's Keeper, a memoir by Stanislaus Joyce about how it had been like to grow up with James Joyce is like reading A Portrait all over again. | |
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McGee in NCIS writes books falling into this trope. | |
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Spoofed in "Mathnet", a Dragnet parody about detectives that used math skills to solve crimes that ran as part of Square One TV. Every episode began with the narrator stating "the story you're about to hear is a fib, but it's short. The names are made up but the (math) problems are real." | |
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This trope is also played in a very meta way in Eva Luna: the soap opera Eva ends writing turns out to be the very book we're reading (which, by the way, is mostly her autobiography and the biography of her love interests), and her transgender actress friend ends interpreting herself and her transition to great success and acclaim. | |
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The Empress of China covers Tang Taizong's expedition to Goguryeo using this method, by changing the names of the Korean places and persons involved. | |
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is based off of her childhood as well as the Scottsboro Trials. | |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is often called a roman à clef. However, in this case the "key" is not that it's based on specific people, but that it's about homosexuality. | |
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Leif G.W. Persson's Backstrom novel The Story of a Crime (Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld), and its TV adaptation En Pilgrims Död, concern the assassination of a Swedish Prime Minister only known as "Pilgrim". But when clues in the narrative are decoded, it can only be referring to the still-unsolved murder of Olaf Palme in 1986. Persson uses the novel to advance his theory that the murder was an inside job by far-right groupings in the Swedish police and security services. | |
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Almost Famous is a fictionalized autobiography of writer-director Cameron Crowe's teenage years as a writer for Rolling Stone in The '70s, with the Fake Band Stillwater as expy of Led Zeppelin and other bands he encountered. (There was a band Stillwater that existed IRL, just not with the songs played during the movie.) | |
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Generation Kill uses this on occasion; while most of the protagonist Marines are known by their actual names, a couple of the less-competent officers are referred to only by their nicknames. Captain America, Casey Kasem, and Encino Man are probably the best examples (they were never named in the original book either, in a specific attempt by the author to avoid having them be targets later). | |
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Parodied in one of Frank Muir's monologues on My Word!, where he explains he's going to call a character Lafcadio Quilp to protect his anonymity, before adding "His mother is the dreadful Mrs Snaith who runs the school dinners at a Staines educational establishment, I have met her son Ron a few times." | |
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Les Liaisons dangereuses was popularly thought to be one of these. Several keys circulated around ancien regime France. Since several of the characters aren't very nice people, part of that was simple slander (though for what it's worth, the novelist Stendhal claimed that he had met the woman who inspired Mme de Merteuil when he was a child and she was an old, old lady.) | |
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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is widely believed to be essentially autobiographical, with Tom as the Author Avatar for Williams (who was born Thomas Lanier Williams). | |
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The Bible: Some scholars have speculated that the apocryphal Book of Judith is one that was about a socio-political situation happening at the time it was written, and that it was using names of characters and locations from the Jews' past to tell that story. Hence, the Anachronism Stew of King Nebuchadnezzar being the king of Assyria when in actual history and canonical Scripture he was the king of Babylon. Also, the story is said to take place after the Jews have returned to their homeland from their exile, which was after both the Assyrian and Babylonian empires have been conquered by the Medes and Persians. | |
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The Fixer by Bernard Malamud is based on the blood-libel trial of Mendel Beilis, going so far as to lift a good number of passages from Beilis's memoir The Story of My Sufferings. | |
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The Girls is a story about a 14-year-old girl in 1969 who falls into a hippie cult led by an ex-con named Russell. It is an obvious story about Charles Manson and the Manson Family. The names are changed and a few details of the murders are tweaked (in the book they take place in Marin County rather than Los Angeles) but the parallels are clear. Evie mentions that she was briefly mentioned in a book about the murders written by a poet—in Real Life poet Ed Sanders wrote The Family in 1971. Evie's grandmother was a famous actress—in Real Life Angela Lansbury's daughter was a member of the Manson Family for a little while. | |
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Island of the Blue Dolphins, which tells the story of the "Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island." | |
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Anathem by Neal Stephenson this for the whole history of Western philosophy. Readers can identify individuals such as Plato , Diogenes or Bertrand Russell, or movements such as Kantian thought. | |
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Hilariously enough, TV Guide once quoted (during the run of the short-lived reboot series) a producer from Dragnet as saying that he told the writers to just make a story up, and chances were that something like it happened somewhere. | |
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Something similar happened on one of Webb's own productions, Project UFO (with cases drawn from the U.S. Air Force's "Project Blue Book" reports), according to series star Edward Winter: | |
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Dog Day Afternoon was based off of a real 1972 Brooklyn bank robbery and keeps many details true to Real Life, with the notable exception of the ending, where Al Pacino's character reluctantly sells his partner out in exchange of a plea bargain. Reportedly, this put his real life counterpart on bad sheets with his fellow inmates at the correctional facility he was in when they played the movie there, giving him the reputation of a rat. | |
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Fargo pretends to be this, with text at the beginning of the film announcing that everything portrayed in the film really happened, with only the names of characters changed, out of respect for the dead. This is, of course, completely false; the film is entirely fictional. Apparently, the Coen Brothers added this to the film to make audiences suspend disbelief. | |
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There is evidence that Chronicle of a Death Foretold was very inspired in a real case from the fifties, with enough similarities left under the name and circumstances changes that one of the surviving characters sued the writer for benefits. GarcÃa Marquez used to be a journalist for trade, so several of his novels have some degree of this in the guise of Historical In Jokes. | |
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Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film All That Jazz; which also functions as an exercise in Self-Deprecation. | |
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We Eat Our Own is about the infamous Troubled Production of Cannibal Holocaust. The protagonist, Richard, is based on Carl Gabriel Yorke, lead actor of the real film; director Ugo Velluto is a stand-in for Ruggero Deodato; and many of the incidents that the crew faces during filming, such as having to kill real animals for the production, actually happened on set. The only wholly fictional part is the side plot involving guerrillas who interfere with the shoot. | |
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Japanese film Vengeance is Mine is about Real Life Serial Killer Akira Nishiguchi and his 78-day, five-murder crime spree, but with the character's name changed to Iwao Enoziku and other details fictionalized. | |
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The Wire zig-zags with some characters in the police department being both named after their real life counterparts, but also featuring some Real-Person Cameo performances such as by Ed Norris who appears as himself, meanwhile, other characters, especially in the criminal world and politics are based on people David Simon and Ed Burns knew from their respective careers in journalism and police work in Baltimore. Avon Barksdale and Omar Little for example are based on two underworld figures who also have cameo roles in the show, and Thomas Carcetti is heavily based on Martin O'Malley. | |
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Again, Dragnet. | |
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The Musical Louisiana Purchase opens with a lawyer writing to the producer and writers of the show, telling them their story is too close to Real Life, and people will know whom they're alluding to even though they've changed the names. But there is an easy way out: change the setting to a mythical state which can even "still be Louisiana," and it will then be OK as fiction. | |
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Valley of the Dolls was based on Jacqueline Susann's experiences as an actress from the 1940s to 1950s, and each notable character is an Expy of a real life person. Anne Welles is Jacqueline herself - a small town girl who moves to New York and falls into the entertainment business. Anne's turbulent relationship with Lyon and Henry is based on persistent rumors that Jacqueline was unfaithful to her own husband (though their marriage was much happier than Anne's). Neely O'Hara is based off Judy Garland - a talented actress, singer and dancer who makes it big but turns to drugs and alcohol to cope with the pressures of being famous. Her stay in the mental hospital is also inspired by Frances Farmer. Jennifer North is based off Carole Landis - a beautiful blonde who became Best Known for the Fanservice and struggled to be taken seriously as an actress ultimately committing suicide rather than deal with her fading looks. Getting addicted to pills because of nerves was based off Marilyn Monroe. Helen Lawson - the foul mouthed veteran Broadway star - was based off the outspoken Ethel Merman. Tony Polar - the Manchild of a club singer - is based off Dean Martin. |
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Shoestring contains an in-universe example. Eddie changes everyone's names in his weekly broadcasts, although the details he provides are sometimes still enough to get him in trouble with lawyers. | |
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Inherit the Wind, a dramatization of the Scopes Monkey Trial with names changed and some dramatic liberties taken (in particular, Matthew Brady dying at the end of the trial, whereas William Jennings Bryan didn't die until five days after). | |
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Primary Colors, which used Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign as inspiration. | |
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The Harder They Fall (1956): This film, in which sleazy boxing promoters build up a boxer named Toro into a heavyweight championship contender via a series of fixed fights, is a take on the controversial career of Primo Carnera, 1930s boxer. Like Toro, Carnera was a foreign import (Argentina for Toro, Italy for Carnera). Like Toro, Carnera was a giant of a man who hulked over the smaller heavyweights of that era. Like Toro, Carnera was in the clutches of shady corrupt promoters. Like Toro, Carnera won a series of boxing matches that were later said to be rigged in his favor. Like Toro, Carnera takes a brutal beating when he faces a real boxer, getting knocked down 11 times before he finally loses by TKO. And just to make it more obvious, the boxer who knocks out Toro is played by Max Baer, who knocked out Carnera in Real Life, and thus is playing a fictionalized version of himself. | |
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On Barney Miller, Harris's book Blood on the Badge was based on his experiences as a NY cop. He got all his colleagues to sign waivers (or whatever it's called, to allow their likenesses in the book), but he didn't bother with an Ambulance Chaser that he had occasional dealings with and who was in the book. When the lawyer found out about the book he sued Harris for defamation (or something) and bankrupted him. | |
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Max Havelaar, Eduard Douwes Dekker's famous account of his (failed) struggle to improve the lot of the Javanese under Dutch colonial rule. | |
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Badlands is a fictionalized version of the Charles Starkweather murders. Most of the changes serve to make Kit and Holly less monstrous than their Real Life counterparts. The real Starkweather didn't just kill Fugate's father, he killed her mother, stepfather, and two-year-old baby sister. The real Starkweather didn't let that rich guy in the fancy house live, but instead killed him, his wife, and the maid. Fugate mutilated the corpse of the young woman who died with her boyfriend in the storm cellar. At his trial, Starkweather claimed that Fugate killed two of the victims attributed to him (the young woman in the storm cellar, and the rich man's wife). | |
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The Three Stooges shorts that knock at Nazi Germany use "Any resemblance to real persons or events is a crying shame." | |
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Heart of Darkness is a stab at Henry Morton Stanley. | |
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The Voyager episode "Author Author" deconstructs this by having the Doctor create a Roman à Clef holo-novel with himself as the hero and thinly-disguised versions of his shipmates as the villains. | |
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Was uses a fictional version. According to the book, L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz after being inspired by a child he knew called Dorothy Gael. With his fictionalized Dorothy, her name became "Dorothy Gale". | |
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Cyrano de Bergerac: A strange case of a subverted Roman à Clef where the names did not change combined with a Very Loosely Based on a True Story: According to this wiki about the play: | |
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The Goon Show had an episode, "The Whistling Spy Enigma" with Peter Sellers, that did a Dragnet-parodying intro: The popular character of Bluebottle note originated by nearly forgotten founder-Goon Creator/MichaelBentine and not by Peter Sellers began with a really eccentric and physically odd-looking Scoutmaster who Michael Bentine encountered in London. Discovering the scoutmaster had a truly unique voice, Bentine grabbed his friend Peter Sellers by the arm and said "You have got to meet this man!" After the encounter, Bentine said to Sellers "Look. I can't do that voice. You can. There's your Bluebottle!" The rest became radio history. Even when invited to a Goon Show recording, the life-model for the character still did not twig who Bluebottle was based on, and complimented Sellers on creating such a funny character who could not possibly exist in real life. |
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Citizen Kane blends the line between mockumentary and this trope, as the character of Charles Foster Kane is loosely based on newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst did not take to the similarities kindly. Probably to keep Hearst from suing him, there is a line in the beginning of the film where one of the men who is making the documentary about the late Mr. Kane asks what makes him different from other famous newspaper magnates like Pulitzer, or Hearst. Mentioning Hearst as someone other than Kane meant lawyers could plausibly argue the character wasn't the real person. Legalities might also be part of the reason Kane buys his ingenue an opera house, as opposed to the movie studio Hearst purchased for Marion Davies. In Real Life, millionaire Samuel Insull built the Chicago Civic Opera House in order to feature his less-than-talented wife; if Hearst had sued Welles, RKO or Herman Mankiewicz, they could have claimed that the film was based on Insull as much as anyone else. | |
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