This is, in other words, less a biopic than a political thriller, a civics lesson that is energetically staged and alive with moral energy.
The beginning of the film is somewhat unusual for a biopic.
I was not interested in making a conventional biopic, as you can see from the results.
Most biopics, like most grandmothers, see the good in a man and demonize his enemies.
The film is thought to be the first feature length biopic of a contemporary living politician.
The tongue-in-cheek references in this fake biopic were drawn from various sources.
This term was adopted and used later as the title of a biopic and of a biography about her.
In many documentaries and biopics, the epilogue is text-based, explaining what happened to the subjects after the events covered in the film.