Word: alter-ego
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Perhaps you've heard of this movie's alter-ego, "A Clockwork Orange," which turns 25-years-old this year. The similarities between these films are uncanny: both are British and are filled with incomprehensible English accents; both are about psychopaths who are caught and sent to institutions; both protagonists are selected for an new treatment that will make them change their ways; and both criminals soon revert to their old ways after being released. The movies even have similar first-person narration styles and musical scores...
...Hanks brings life to this original character, and after his Academy Award for "Philadelphia," Hanks has finally come into his own. (Of course, I couldn't help picturing him with his alter-ego Peter Schaffer from Bosom Buddies, but Hanks does a magnificent job in this film...
Minke, Pramoedya Ananta Toer's young narrator and alter-ego in This Earth of Mankind, cannot get his mind off Annelies Mellema. He remembers the first time...
...After I screwed up my leg, Jon screwed up his," Jim adds. "He's like my alter-ego...
...other hand, there are limits. Andreassi goes over the top and out the door playing the caddish pilot Yang Sun. When Brecht spoke of emotionally "distancing" the audience from the actors, he was thinking in terms of yards, not light-years. Though Shipley's male alter-ego Shui Ta is an outstanding piece of physical acting (her face is concealed by a mask), she never quite makes you believe that Shen Te was either a prostitute or someone who Did It All For Love. Joseph Costa is fine as an unemployed hobo, but in the important supporting role...