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suspense or drama than would be experienced in reality. The same is also true for many military-oriented adventure stories which often show high-ranking characters being allowed to continuously enter dangerous situations when in reality, they would usually be restricted to command-oriented and administrative duties.
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Certain stylizations have become fixed conventions in art; an agreement between artist and viewer that is understood and undebatable. A striking example is how in simple cartoon drawings' monochromatic white parts on a dark colored surface are immediately recognized by most viewers to represent the
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Writers adapting a work for another medium (e.g., a film screenplay from a book) often make significant changes, additions to, or omissions from the original plot in the book, on the grounds that these changes were necessary to make a good film. These changes are sometimes to the dismay of fans of
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Critical voices are sometimes raised when artistic license is applied to cinematic and other depictions of real historical events. While slight manipulation for dramatic effect of chronology and character traits are generally accepted, some critics feel that depictions that present a significantly
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programs typically omit completely the more mundane aspects of the occupation such as paperwork, reports, administrative duties and other daily "business-oriented" aspects which in reality often constitute the majority of police work. They will also present other duties with much more action,
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altered reality are irresponsible, particularly because many viewers and readers do not know the actual events and may thus take the dramatized depiction to be true to reality. Examples of films and television series criticized for excessive use of dramatic license include Disney's
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Artistic license is often referred to as dramatic license when it involves the glamorization of real-world occupations for the sake of exciting television or cinematic experience. For example,
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The artistic license may also refer to the ability of an artist to apply smaller distortions, such as a poet ignoring some of the minor requirements of grammar for poetic effect. For example,
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by offending those who resent the reinterpretation of cherished beliefs or previous works. Artists often respond to these criticisms by pointing out that their work was not intended to be a
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would technically require the word "and" before "countrymen", but the conjunction "and" is omitted to preserve the rhythm of
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Goodsell, David S.; Johnson, Graham T. (2007). "Filling in the Gaps: Artistic License in Education and Outreach".
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Another example of artistic license is the way in which stylized images of an object (for instance in a
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Useful for filling in gaps, whether they be factual, compositional, historical or other gaps
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D'sa, Benicia (2005). "Social Studies in the Dark: Using Docudramas to Teach History".
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Davis, Tracy C. (2005). "Do you believe in fairies? The hiss of dramatic license".
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Used consciously or unconsciously, intentionally or unintentionally or in tandem
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Shakespeare Studies: An Annual Gathering of Research, Criticism, Reviews
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This article is about the concept. For the free software license, see
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Deliberate distortion of rules or convention for aesthetic reasons
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portrayal of something previous and should be judged only on
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Intended to be tolerated by the viewer (cf. "willing
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or language, or the rewording of pre-existing text.
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Poetic license
Artistic License
Artistic License (album)
grammar
Mark Antony
Shakespeare
Julius Caesar
iambic pentameter
asyndetic
tricolon
painting
animated movie
pictogram
fantasy art
caricature
suspension of disbelief
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
police procedural
controversy
verbatim
artistic merit
William Shakespeare
Pocahontas
Mel Gibson
Braveheart
Oliver Stone
Alexander
Rome
The Greatest Showman
The Tudors

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