Word: heroicize
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...been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them. In 1984 Do They Know It's Christmas? did a lot of good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should be praised. But it also left another, perhaps more powerful legacy: the image of Ethiopia as a land "where nothing ever grows...
...grace. As for Scorsese, he seems to have taken a cue from the DiCaprio façade, fashioning a portrait of smooth surfaces and trusting DiCaprio to show what's inside. Well, an actor can reveal meaning, but he shouldn't be asked to invent it. Despite its star's heroic efforts, The Aviator is a gorgeous jet, flying on automatic pilot. --By Richard Corliss
...Hotel Rwanda, one heroic figure emerges as an exception to the UN’s heartlessness: Colonel Oliver, the hard-drinking, hard-working Canadian commander of the undermanned international peacekeeping force. The only problem is that Oliver’s character—brilliantly portrayed by Nick Nolte—is in fact a figment of director Terry George’s imagination...
...been criticized before for its cheesy tune, and Do They Know It's Christmas? may not be the right question asked of Muslims in Sudan. But my gripe is about the way the song reinforces the popular impression that all Africans are starving as they wait for heroic Westerners to come and save them. In 1984, Do They Know It's Christmas? did a lot of good for the people of Ethiopia, and for that it should be praised. But it also left another, perhaps more powerful legacy: the image of Ethiopia as a land "where nothing ever grows...
...Other movies create lead characters who seem at first unsympathetic but then reveal, fairly obviously, their redeeming or heroic nature. These reductive moral tales sell the big lie that in life there are heroes and villains, that the good we seek is easily distinguishable from the good-bad we do. "Closer" introduces the viewer to four glamorous folks with severe but recognizable fissures in their facades. Not like movie people. Like people...