Word: antiheroes
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...glum, frozen characters were even father removed from Hollywood cinema. The traditional movie hero was an action figure; the Antonioni antihero is inactive, passive, empty. Rich and pretty, he shows how meaningless it is to be a man of means. He in incapacitated by wealth, status and the availability of sex with good-looking people of the opposite sex. The advantages that the world's poor could only dream of have paralyzed...
With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels like the work space of an investment banker or hedge-fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, the daytime television show flickering on his sleek, flat-screen set betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
With its dark furniture, high-tech gadgets and model jet plane, Philip Green's London office feels a lot like the work area of an investment banker or hedge fund manager. On the wall behind his enormous desk, there's even a photograph of Wall Street antihero Gordon Gekko. But on this May morning, a daytime-TV segment flickering on his sleek, flat-screened television betrays his role as a master of an entirely different universe: women's fashion...
...Hope in an Antihero Mexican President Felipe Calderón projects an antihero image that contrasts sharply with the populist Presidents in Latin America [March 19]. It means that there is hope for Mexico to achieve social and economic growth without ruining its future. Rogelio Pardo-Evans, SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA...
...Cowell the leading man in writer-director Matthew Saville's haunting police drama, Noise, in which he plays a police constable battling the hearing disorder tinnitus while unwittingly caught up in the hunt for a Melbourne serial killer. It's a tough call, but Cowell somehow turns this fuzzy antihero into someone strangely likeable and oddly iconic. An improvised scene where he practices cricket strokes in front of a mirror wearing just underpants, joint in hand, seems as Australian as Jack Thompson wielding sheep-shearing scissors in Sunday Too Far Away...