Word: heroicize
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...muse and fret at length. After the climax there's a plethora of meetings and farewells, most of them extended versions of the goodbyes in The Wizard of Oz. But Jackson is entitled. He surely felt that he and his companions of the Ring had waged their own hard, heroic battle and that sentimental adieus were earned...
...Maybe you could spare a few pages for the heroic soldiers and Marines who make sure their weapons are usable (a task any soldier can do quickly after two weeks of basic training) and fire back at the enemy, not lower their heads and close their eyes while their fellow soldiers get shot and killed. If Lynch were male, she would be called a coward. There have been countless acts of real heroism in Iraq by soldiers who have put their lives on the line to save others. The media should be reporting those stories, not trying to manufacture...
...different kind of barrier had to be surmounted by last week's other premiering pianist, the Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang, 21, who made his recital bow at Carnegie Hall. Helped by his parents' heroic scrimping, Lang Lang overcame poverty in the city of Shenyang, which had only one dusty Steinway. His father gave up his job as a policeman to take the 8-year-old Lang Lang to Beijing for a year and a half of arduous preparations for the Central Conservatory. At 15, after winning two international competitions, the prodigy made the leap to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute...
...original was a genuine Neo classic. It trumped its nifty martial artistry and digital effects with a theme of self-discovery in the great heroic tradition. So, what did the brothers do for an encore? They spread the sequel over two feature-length films and, with all that time to fill, got a little gassy in their storytelling. The rebel fortress of Zion was a drab lair whose denizens engaged in way too much Jedi Council--style nattering. Then--as if producer Joel Silver had pleaded, "Could you please have somebody hit somebody?"--Reloaded 180'd into an action film...
...real Russell Crowe is not quite Aubrey, the unambiguously heroic fellow he plays in Peter Weir's splendidly bracing sea epic Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Sometimes, the actor comes off as a brute, a primitive: Crowe Magnon Man. So we gladly cede to others the honor of carousing or canoodling with him. We might lock up our daughters at his approach. We would not care to be within striking distance of his coiled wrath...