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How accurate (or fictionalized) is this film?

posted 8 years ago by Brennan-8
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I've read that Dennis Stock was actually an established photographer when he met Dean, so that (and several other things in the movie) made me wonder if this film is even meant to be a faithful depiction of real events, or is it taking a lot of dramatic license?

I still enjoyed the film, despite some reservations. One scene made my jaw drop: when Stock and Dean walk out into a 1955-era Times Square. Absolutely stunning. I have no idea how they did that. It must have cost a fortune, unless it's all done with computers or something!

[–] !!!deleted!!! (67791493) 8 years ago

He doesn't exactly act like a struggling photographer as he is working for Life after all. He's stretched in that he has a child and its mother to provide for giving us a darker shade of him when not chasing his pictorial stories.

I'm going to say, and I haven't gotten there yet, it's superimposed CGI green screen stuff. I watch these reproduction films a lot for the love of detail they need to bring sets to authenticity. Aquarius is a current series doing the same thing in the '60s. It's about Charles Manson with other stories worked in to stretch out the tale. Crazy cat him.

GFW