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Biopic vs Biography - What's the difference?

biopic | biography |

As nouns the difference between biopic and biography

is that biopic is a motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people) while biography is a person's life story, especially one published.

As a verb biography is

to write a biography of.

biopic

English

Noun

(wikipedia biopic) (en noun)
  • A motion picture based on the life (or lives) of a real, rather than fictional, person (or people).

    • Synonyms

    * biographical film ----

    biography

    English

    Noun

    (biographies)
  • A person's life story, especially one published.
    • There are many biographies of Benjamin Franklin.

    Derived terms

    * autobiography * heterobiography * psychobiography

    Related terms

    * biographer * biographical * biographism * hagiography * pathography

    Verb

  • To write a biography of.

    • Anagrams

    * English words suffixed with -graphy