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Zwick continues to slip into transitional phases in a variety of projects that don’t involve a war backdrop, such as “My So-Called Life.” Angela Chase, the 15-year-old protagonist and narrator of the series, gave audiences a glimpse into the tumultuous halls of her high school and adolescence. The series inspired a cult following that endured long after its early cancellation, prompting MTV to pickup the rerun rights...
...think the observations that the protagonist has are often contradicted by some of the behaviors that we see around him. I think it lends an opportunity for humor and for a multiplicity of shadings that wouldn’t otherwise be there,” Zwick says. He adds that, in the case of The Last Samurai, relying on the white American Cruise as narrator serves to alleviate problems of language...
...probably best known from Zhang Yimou's award-winning 1994 film To Live. (Yu co-wrote the screenplay.) Following a peasant family from the Chinese civil war of the 1940s through the spasms of the Cultural Revolution, To Live is a historical fable with a long-suffering protagonist, Fugui, to rival the Biblical Job. If something bad happened to China over the past 60 years, it happens to Fugui and his family?again and again. The constant calamity may leave readers drained of empathy, but Yu's stringently honest prose succeeds in making an existential hero out of Fugui, whose...
Veronica Guerin succeeds in drawing the audience into the story precisely because it focuses so much on the protagonist. Cate Blanchett’s resplendent performance as Guerin seethes with passion and intensity in every scene, conveying with heart-wrenching emotion both Guerin’s incredible dedication and her fear in the midst of constant death threats by powerful drug-traffickers. It is Blanchett’s skillful portrayal of Guerin which compensates for certain weaknesses in direction, making the movie one worth the price of an admission ticket...
There's no point looking to Coetzee for clarification. He failed to show up for his Booker award ceremonies, and who knows whether he'll show up in Stockholm on Dec. 10 for his Nobel. The protagonist of his latest novel, Elizabeth Costello, herself a postmodern novelist, might offer some clues as to his thoughts. On being picked for a literary prize, she says, "I should have asked them to forget the ceremony and send the check in the mail...