Word: characterize
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Back in 2000, Steve Martin was talking about the hack writer's trick of getting sympathy for one character by making another one a total rotter. "I think that's the cheap and ugly way out," he said. "What I hate in movies - I mean action movies - is, 'We need...
Martin was thinking too small. The current recipe, cooked up in last year's Death Race and this week's Law Abiding Citizen, is to have some malefactor slaughter the leading character's wife and child - the love of his life and his hope for the future - as he watches...
So many different stories came to a head this week! FlyBy loved all the confrontations. We enjoyed the “empowerment” theme, too, but we’re unsure about the show’s handling of minorities. This has been a problem from the beginning: Kurt?...
Koizumi, 67, served five years as Prime Minister, from 2001 to 2006, earning a reputation as a reformist who reinvigorated the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the 2005 election around the issue of privatization of the national postal system. Now lending his voice to the iconic Ultraman King character, the...
With popularity on par with the Batman character in the U.S., Ultraman is a silver-and-red-clad superhero with buglike eyes and a reputation for countless victories. Actors and comedians - not former Prime Ministers - usually perform the voices for characters in the series' live-action or animation films. And...