Definition of ANIMATRONIC. : of, relating to, or being a puppet or similar figure that is animated by means of electromechanical devices. â anÂ·iÂ·maÂ·tronÂ·iÂ·calÂ·ly \-ni-k(É-)lÄ\ adverb.
Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the story that inspired the Movie Badlands: Directed by Terrence Malick. Badlands was loosely based on a series of murders by two young Americans. Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate killed Caril's family and a number of other people who had the misfortune to get in their way. While the movie is in no way a documentary, many of the details are taken directly from the true story.
âFargoâ (1996) was directed by Joel Coen, produced by Ethan Coen, co-written by the brothers, and set in the Scandinavian-American upper Midwest where they grew up. It begins with the information that it is âbased on a true story,â and ends with a disclaimer that its âpersons and eventsâ are fictitious. It's fiction; âtrue storyâ is an ironic stylistic device. But âFargoâ is true to the rhythms of small-town life.