* A hugely popular yet heavily fictionalized perpetuation of the story came in Peter Shaffer's play Amadeus ( 1979 ) and the Oscar-winning 1984 film directed by Miloš Forman based upon it.

Potemkin was a heavily fictionalized film telling the story of a mutiny on a battleship which came about as a result of the sailors ' mistreatment ; the film was an obvious but skillful propaganda piece glorifying the proletariat.

Yet the story is also heavily fictionalized.

* The 2007 film The Last Legion, and the novel on which it is based, includes a heavily fictionalized account of the reign and subsequent life of Romulus Augustus ; escaping captivity with the aid of a small band of loyal Romans, he escapes to Britain, where he takes a place in what will become Arthurian legend as Uther Pendragon, the father of King Arthur, and a previous wielder of Excalibur ( Here the sword of Julius Caesar ).

* A heavily fictionalized version of Saladin is played by Ghassan Massoud in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven.

Other zombie-themed films include Val Lewton's I Walked With a Zombie ( 1943 ) and Wes Craven's The Serpent and the Rainbow, ( 1988 ) a heavily fictionalized account of Wade Davis ' book.

A heavily fictionalized version of Calvi appears in the film The Godfather Part III in the character of Frederick Keinszig.

The first Alger biography was a heavily fictionalized account published in 1928 by Herbert R. Mayes, who later admitted the work was a fraud.

* The film is heavily fictionalized for dramatic purposes and completely omits any mention of Marie's family in Paris, including her sister Bronislawa, an obstetrician, with whom she was very close.

The event was heavily fictionalized in the 1948 movie Tap Roots.

A heavily fictionalized version of Elisabeth's younger years is portrayed in a 1997 children's series, Princess Sissi.

A heavily fictionalized account of the invasion from a U. S. military perspective is shown in the 1986 Clint Eastwood motion picture Heartbreak Ridge, in which marines replaced the actual roles of army units due to the movie's portrayal of several incompetent officers and NCOs for which the army opted out its military support of the movie.

Lotus Long played a heavily fictionalized " Tokyo Rose ", described on the film's posters as a " seductive jap traitress "; Byron Barr played the G. I.

is a 1958 film noir written by Nelson Gidding and Don Mankiewicz, produced by Walter Wanger, and directed by Robert Wise, which tells the heavily fictionalized story of a woman, Barbara Graham, convicted of murder and facing execution.

A heavily fictionalized account of Collins ' life while writing The Moonstone forms much of the plot of Dan Simmons ' 2009 novel, Drood.

Frank Miller's 1998 comic book 300, and the 2007 feature film adapted from it, present a heavily fictionalized version of the Immortals at the Battle of Thermopylae.

The heavily fictionalized version of d ' Artagnan featured in Dumas ' works and their subsequent screen adaptations is now far more widely known than the real historical figure.

A heavily fictionalized version of Sibylla is played by Eva Green in the 2005 movie Kingdom of Heaven.

* The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean ( 1972 ), a heavily fictionalized biopic film of the judge starring Paul Newman in the title role.

A heavily fictionalized version of Al-Wathiq appears in William Thomas Beckford's classic 18th-century gothic fantasy novel Vathek.

featured a " Charlie Kaufman " character who is a heavily fictionalized version of the screenwriter and who has an " identical twin brother ", Donald, a sell-out screenwriter reflecting Kaufman's anxieties about Hollywood.

She is a heavily fictionalized version of the First Empress of Rome – Livia Drusilla Julia Augusta.

The picture portrays a heavily fictionalized account of the dilemma that led to the creation of the U. S. Navy's " Seabees " in World War II.

The story details the heavily fictionalized murderous witch-hunting exploits of Matthew Hopkins, a 17th century English lawyer who claimed to have been appointed as a " Witch-finder Generall " by Parliament during the English Civil War to root out sorcery and witchcraft.

In 1960, Nicholas Poppe presented what was in effect a heavily revised version of Ramstedt ’ s volume on phonology that has since set the standard in Altaic studies.

The Hebrew text of Samuel is widely recognised to be heavily corrupted with errors ( meaning that scribes, over the centuries, have introduced many mistakes while copying the original version ), while in addition the Greek and Hebrew versions differ considerably ; modern scholars are still working at finding the best solutions to the many problems this presents.

His lyrics with diverse themes, mostly following a somewhat modernized version of the " aşık " ( wandering folk poets ) tradition were heavily marginal in the popular music scene of 1980s which was mostly dominated by love-themed lyrics.

Resolution of these scholarly questions remained very difficult so long as no complete version of the Diatessaron in Syriac or Greek had been recovered ; while the medieval translations that had survived — in Arabic and Latin — both relied on texts that had been heavily corrected to conform better with later canonical versions of the separate Gospel texts.

A heavily edited version was made available legally during 1992.

David Garrick at Drury Lane produced a version that adapted Shakespeare heavily ; he declared: " I had sworn I would not leave the stage till I had rescued that noble play from all the rubbish of the fifth act.

In contrast to Zeffirelli, whose Hamlet was heavily cut, Kenneth Branagh adapted, directed, and starred in a 1996 version containing every word of Shakespeare's play, combining the material from the F1 and Q2 texts.

This brevity has suggested to many critics that the received version is based on a heavily cut source, perhaps a prompt-book for a particular performance.

Hoping to capitalize on the success of airing Gundam Wing the previous year, Bandai Entertainment released a heavily edited and English-dubbed version of the series premiering on Toonami across the United States on Monday, July 23, 2001.

Creoles, meanwhile, developed in settlement colonies in which speakers of a European language, often indentured servants whose language would be far from the standard in the first place, interacted extensively with non-European slaves, absorbing certain words and features from the slaves ' non-European native languages, resulting in a heavily basilectalized version of the original language.

The game is powered by a heavily modified version of the Quake III: Team Arena engine.

It is also known to English-speaking audiences as Space Cruiser Yamato ; an English-dubbed and heavily edited version of the series was broadcast on North American and Australian television as Star Blazers.

Star Blazers is a heavily edited dubbed version for the US market produced by Westchester Film Corporation.

It returned to a heavily modified version of the original rules and was set in the early days of the Third Imperium ( Milieu 0 ).

He also released a newly remixed version of the already heavily overdubbed The Last Waltz.

Worms: A Space Oddity was developed by Team17 exclusively for Nintendo's Wii system, using a heavily modified version of the Worms: Open Warfare 2 engine.

In 1964, a heavily abridged version was published as a mass market paperback, which was then translated into English for publication the following year as Madness and Civilization.

PySolFC has integrated Freecell Solver, while KDE's KPatience solitaire suite had initially integrated Freecell Solver as well, but later switched to a heavily modified version of Patsolve.

Creoles, meanwhile, developed in settlement colonies in which speakers of a European language, often indentured servants whose language would be far from the standard in the first place, interacted extensively with non-European slaves, absorbing certain words and features from the slaves ' non-European native languages, resulting in a heavily basilectalized version of the original language.

Designed for Windows, the game uses a heavily modified version of id Software's " Quake " game engine called GoldSrc.

" But even this version was not close to Shakespeare's: the nineteenth-century actor-managers heavily cut Shakespeare's scripts: ending scenes on big " curtain effects " and reducing or eliminating supporting roles to give greater prominence to the star.

In 1957 the Old Vic staged a heavily edited ninety minute performance as part of a double bill with an edited version of The Comedy of Errors.

In 1981, John Barton followed the 1957 Old Vic model and directed a heavily edited version of the play as a double bill with The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the RSC, starring Patrick Stewart as Titus, Sheila Hancock as Tamora, Hugh Quarshie as Aaron and Leonie Mellinger as Lavinia.