Perhaps the most common kind of docudrama warrant arises when re-created material asserts that it has been modeled on its historical referents. Modeling invites the viewer's collaboration by asking acceptance of the very premise that the model, the analogy, is valid. Modeling offers figurative proximities. Modeled material has the potential to be persuasive as it situates its viewer as a collaborator in pretense. If we accept the resemblance to original appearance, then we are that much more likely to accept the film's view of historical and moral truth.
History here entails morality.
The model, as a model, sets up the validity of the larger moral argument of the film. Ralph Fiennes in Quiz Show . Charles Van Doren was brought down by his own social and intellectual elitism. John Turturro as Herbert Stempel in Quiz Show . Consistent with preexisting accounts, the film shows Van Doren replacing Herbert Stempel as a contestant on Twenty-one .