Its hopefully not too controversial to suggest that sometimes,biopicsplay things a little too safe.

This does makeBetter Manstand out, sure, but it alsoprobably sounds like a joke to most people.

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A scene from Persepolis

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Tom Hardy stands in a spotlight in an otherwise blackened room looking down the barrel of the camera in Bronson

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Robbie Williams smiling at the crowd as a chimpanzee in Better Man.

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly book

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Marie Falconetti clutching a cross in The Passion of Joan of Arc

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John Hurt with his face covered in The Elephant Man

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Andrei Rublev in a medieval church, in Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Andrei Rublev’ (1966)

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Napoleon holding a sword in the 1927 Abel Gance film, Napoleon.

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people standing in formation in front of a hut in Mishima

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