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...director took his risk, and it paid off, attracting all sectors of the audience, but especially women. This often-ignored demographic made Titanic the hit of all hits. (Alan Wade, a writer-director, argues that the movie resonated so strongly with women precisely because Jack, the hero, dies; in memory he remains their first, shining, lost love...
...acclaimed BBC miniseries from 1985, with the same director at the helm (Martin Campbell, who with Casino Royale rebooted the James Bond franchise) and with William Monahan, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of The Departed, working on the script, it focuses on a familiar Gibson character: the haunted hero who solves problems by killing people. (See the top 10 James Bond gadgets...
...animated feature The Princess and the Frog. That was another fish-out-of-water (or amphibian-in-the-bayou) love story, about a New Orleans girl who hopes to build her dream restaurant but is turned into a frog when she kisses a cursed prince. In Dear John, the hero meets his sweetheart by diving into a lake to retrieve her purse. The Sparks story has even more in common with Cameron's. In both pictures, a U.S. soldier encounters a beguiling outsider with an affinity for green housing: Dear John's female lead works for Habit for Humanity, while...
...youngish age taught him that life was short. He was frugal because after his father died, he went through a colossal struggle to save the family's land. He became an attention junkie after his come-from-nowhere win made him a media darling and a party hero. And staying true to his ideals was almost impossible in Washington, where he spent three terms in Congress - and where horse-trading is the only way to get things done. (See Mark Sanford's mea culpa, plus nine other high-profile apologies...
...detective-cum-action-hero Holmes, Robert Downey Jr. discovers what many great actors have before him—that one can play essentially the same character in many films, provided that one is entertaining enough to get away with it. In Downey’s case, the intellectually brilliant, heavy-drinking and hard-hitting persona of American arms inventor Tony Stark of “Iron Man” proves surprisingly adaptable to 19th century England. That is to say, all that is needed is a change of accent. This is not a deep role...