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A look at how movie fiction holds up to reality
"Ray," the new biopic about Ray Charles directed by Taylor Hackford, tells several large truths and many little lies.
That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Filmmakers routinely take liberties with the truth to streamline the story, emphasize character traits, mythologize their subjects or get at larger truths.
"Lust For Life," one of the most popular biopics of all time, tells the story of an artist with a vision the world cannot yet comprehend, but it's not exactly an accurate biography of Vincent Van Gogh.
Real life doesn't fit into Aristotle's classic prescription for a story — a beginning, middle and end — not to mention tragedy's reversal, discovery and calamity.
Which is not to say that there aren't many hip, accurate details in "Ray." When Quincy Jones, Ray's Seattle pal, comes to Ray's apartment, for example, Ray is cooking chicken in the dark.
Ray loved to cook and, being blind, naturally never turned on the li