Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread, your place on the Avocado to discuss films with your fellow commenters. Want to make a recommendation? Looking for recommendations? Want to share your opinions of movies, both new and classic?

This week sees the release of the Amy Winehouse film, Back to Black.

It’s a tricky thing to do a biopic when the subject is very fresh in everyone’s minds. Marisa Abela has been subject a lot of scrutiny from Winehouse fans. Does she nail the looks, the mannerisms, the voice of someone who was the part of people’s lives for many years?

And yet… how do we know for sure that Winehouse’s like could be easily distilled to the performances that the public was allowed to see? Even if Abela totally replicates Winehouse’s Grammy performance, is it the truth or the truth that we want to see?

Val Kilmer, for example, made a name for himself by embodying Jim Morrison in The Doors. Certainly he got the mannerisms down. And the look, especially. “He looks so uncannily like Jim Morrison that we feel this is not a case of casting, but of possession,” said Roger Ebert in his review of the movie.

But how much of those mannerisms were Jim Morrison, and how much of it was Val Kilmer? And how much of the affectations do we attribute to Morrison when we’re thinking, in fact, of Kilmer’s portrayal?

Today’s bonus prompt: Which actor do you feel most successfully embodied the real life person they were portraying?