Word: antiheroes
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...slammed Fitzgerald's early novels and B.P.'s movies, charging that both were "stricken with a double vision and a double morality, glorifying the society they were so heatedly exposing, exposing the society they could not resist glorifying." He wrote the character of Sammy Glick, his novel's screenwriter antihero, as such a crass schemer, appropriator of other men's work and trampler of decency that no one could possibly mistake him for a role model. Yet Sammy became just that for many a brash entrepreneur in Hollywood and on Wall Street. Schulberg later said he was pained that Glick...
...number of thrillers, such as “Proof of Life,” “The Insider,” and last year’s “Body of Lies,” and he has become adept at playing the troubled but sympathetic antihero. Although his craggy face and shaggy hair lend his character the right air of schlubbyness, Crowe is charismatic enough to keep our attention. Mirren is feisty as Cal and Della’s boss, but her character lacks substance. As is often the case in an ensemble cast, many...
...district, right along a railway line. In his 1962 novel The Pretenders, foremost contemporary Filipino novelist F. Sionil José describes the street as one of "intractable damnation," and it's not hard to see why. Shanties still line the same steel tracks on which José's tortured antihero Antonio Samson kills himself, after learning that his vapid high-society wife is having an affair. On a recent afternoon, naked boys skipped rope near piles of rotting trash. Meals bubbled over open fires, just feet from railroad ballast...
...needs to be his own man. Fans love Nadal because he seems so real. Even his most deliberate calculations - to pick up the racquet in his left hand and hit the ball in a way nobody has before - seem to stem from a subversive instinct. For tennis's antihero, on the court at least, normal might be a step...
...praise a long-running show—six seasons over eight years—for knowing when to quit, but the fact is that David Chase and the rest of the “Sopranos” team realized the limits of their storyline. Shows driven by complex antihero protagonists thrive on anticipation, with loyal viewers tuning in each week to see when the main character’s internal conflict will finally reach its boiling point and lead to either his downfall or triumph. The problem is that once the peak of the character’s storyline...