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...replied with the aforementioned catch-all phrase. She said that was everybody's reaction to the film so far, nobody zealously praising its merit or damning it straight to video release. The reason for the lukewarm reaction is that The Virgin Suicides has a character crisis. Lacking a central protagonist, the film keeps the viewer detached . There is no character that the audience can latch on to or place its empathy with. There are the five Lisbon sisters, their two parents, the numerous neighborhood admirers, the unidentified narrator, Trip Fontaine, etc. The audience has trouble keeping count of all these...
...ethnic associations as diverse as the Asian-American Association, the Black Students Association, RAZA, and others against "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu." After all, wouldn't South Asians be offended if the strip's title was "The Misanthropic Mr. Patel", and wouldn't African-Americans be offended if the protagonist was racially stereotyped as a black jock who did nothing but run around playing basketball...
...controversy surrounding "The Misanthropic Mr. Chu" is made more complicated by the fact that one of the authors of the strip is Asian and shares many of the physical and intellectual characteristics of his protagonist. He is short, loves math and takes pride in frequently wearing quadratic reasoning T-shirts. Creating the strip is perhaps his way of poking fun at himself. Indeed, his acquaintances may think the strip is funny, because they know the real person on which it is based. One wonders if a cartoon strip that runs in Harvard's daily is the best medium...
...Soviet authorities will not permit her to return to France. Ultimately, the fault lies with Wargnier. He has created a character of heroic proportions, a woman who endures unimaginable hardships, years of exile in a forced labor camp, to escape Soviet Russia. In the process, he has deprived his protagonist of a more human face...
...audience sits back and relaxes, anticipating a witty comedy and moreof Gambuto's artfully-delivered one-liners. So begins The House of Blue Leaves, the creation of a fast-paced world of kooky reality in which laughter covers the dark edge upon which the characters teeter. The protagonist, an aspiring musician named Artie, seems real enough at the start with his pathetic late-night gigs, nagging girlfriend, and dishevelled apartment, later called "so Norman Rockwell" by a Hollywood starlet (Jordan Berkow '03). But this rough-edged and familiar American scene transitions when Bananas (Catherine Gowl '02), Artie's mentally sick...