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NEW YORK, Oct 2, 2006 (UPI via COMTEX) -- British author Peter Morgan says he employed similar techniques to write the screenplays for the new films, "The Queen" and "The Last King of Scotland."
Both films, which are earning raves from critics, are fictionalized accounts of historical 20th-century events, featuring a mix of real and imagined characters and dialogue.
"The Queen" is about Queen Elizabeth II's reaction to Princess Diana's 1997 death, while "The Last King of Scotland," based on Giles Foder's novel, is about Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's volatile relationship with his doctor and confidante in the 1970s.
"(Writing the two scripts) was exactly the same," Morgan told UPI in New York. "To me, even though these people are real, clearly -- Idi Amin, the queen, Tony Blair -- I try to get into their heads and I hear their voices in my head and I write them and, to me, they don't feel any different than fictional characters. So, when I wrote the script, I wrote 'Elizabeth' and 'Tony,' I didn't write 'the queen' and 'the prime minister.' ... To me, it's about human relationships."
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