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...course, the conceit of Todd Haynes's movie is that none of them is really playing Dylan. They're playing fictions named Jude and Billy and so forth, each of them a fictionalized aspects of the icon's life and the problems he has encountered living it. The black lad represents the soulful yearnings of his art, Gere plays his outlaw impulses, while others engage with his romantic and marital difficulties. Blanchett does him at the height of drug and celebrity-addled fame, which Haynes largely shoots in a Fellini-like manner (at one point she is obliged to wrestle...
...Donnie Darko.” Kelly, the director of both films, appears to realize that he will not surpass his previous feat; rather, he makes allusions to his cult classic by designating the signature rabbit symbol from “Donnie Darko” as an icon for the underground Marxist movement that begins to unravel the apocalypse plot. In doing this, he acknowledges that the success of the cult is everywhere. Here, however, Kelly has more mainstream aspirations. He aims both for surrealist comedy and action slasher, although time travel does make a cameo appearance near...
...Political figures such as the Perons have been superseded as icons of Argentine identity by more recent figures such as former Boca ace Diego Maradona, widely considered during the 1980s to have been the greatest player in the world. In 1986, he led Argentina to World Cup triumph in a campaign whose victims included England, in a symbolic avenging of the humiliating military defeat the country had suffered at British hands in the Falklands four years earlier. Not unlike the Perons, of course, Maradona the icon had his flaws - he was banned from Italian football (where he had played...
Drew G. Faust might be known more as an academic light than a pop-culture icon. But she took a step toward becoming the latter this week as Glamour magazine named the Harvard president as one of its “Women of the Year.” The women’s magazine, which focuses on fashion and beauty, is releasing its annual list—featuring women from the fields of entertainment, business, and science—in its December issue. “When I said I’m not the ‘woman president...
...love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will be no symbol for the party." At a time when its reins on China's economic, cultural and social values are loosening, the party needs as many symbols of emotional and ideological legitimacy as it can get. By eroding the icon that is Zhou, The Last Perfect Revolutionary makes plain just how scant these symbols have become...