Post by MagdaFR on Sept 4, 2021 9:52:20 GMT
Did I read that correctly - Spencer is calling itself a “fable based on true events”? Do they know that fables are stories told with animals, like The Three Little Pigs?
Fables aren't necessarily told with animals and the term has many meanings.
From wordreference:www.wordreference.com/definition/fable
As the director and writer is from Chile and speaks Spanish, we have a verb "fabular" associated with the noun, "fábula".
From the Spanish official dictionnary (from the Real Academia):
2. tr. Inventar, imaginar tramas o argumentos.
From the LA Times:
“A fable from a true tragedy.” That’s how the new Princess Diana film “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart, bills itself.
From the outset, director Pablo Larraín wants audiences to know that Stewart’s portrayal of the late royal in the Steven Knight-scripted film is not intended to be fact-checked.
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Throughout the film, Diana speaks of feeling lost — her first line of dialogue is “Where the f— am I?” as she drives alone in a convertible Porsche on a country lane — and in a sense the story of the film is of her on the road to finding the strength to break free of the royal family and live her own life again, in part by reclaiming her own last name, Spencer.
All of which is to say this is very much a work of fiction, however much it may intersect with reality. In his director’s statement as part of the press notes for the film, Larraín said, “We didn’t aim to make a docudrama, we wanted to create something by taking elements of the real, and then using imagination, to tell the life of a woman with the tools of cinema. That is why cinema is so fantastic: there is always space for imagination.”
www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-09-03/kristen-stewart-princess-diana-spencer-explained