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...contract but also the rights to this album. After purchasing back her master tapes and finishing the album on her own terms, Mann has emerged with a stronger, more fiercely independent voice. In one of the album's highlights, co-written by Elvis Costello, Mann casts herself as the protagonist in "The Fall of the World's Own Optimist." She tracks her descent from innocence to her current perception of reality, where there's no point overriding objections, because that's "flogging the horse/When the horseman has up and died...
...equation of sex with power is evil, that the sadistic torture of a male can seem shocking to those who take the similar treatment of females in erotic literature for granted. But such readings seem crimped and reductive in the presence of Thomson's spellbinding narrative. To share his protagonist's search for the meaning of his captivity is to embark on a chillingly haunted quest...
Thomson's unnamed protagonist is a dancer, 29, with a ballet company in Amsterdam. He is, at the outset, a happy man. His well-regarded initial efforts as a choreographer allow him to look forward to a satisfying career when his performing days come to an end. He remains in love with Brigitte, a fellow dancer with whom he has lived and to whom he has stayed faithful for seven years. When she asks him to go out and buy her a pack of cigarettes, he teases her about smoking too much but walks willingly into the spring sunshine...
...plodding screenplay often moves at a maddeningly slow pace, one that even Leo's formidable aesthetic talents can't make bearable. Richard is also not a likable protagonist. His self-centered, immature behavior makes it difficult to sympathize with him, no matter what disaster strikes. Yet the character of Richard is the antithesis of that of Jack Dawson, DiCaprio's role in Titanic, which is testimony to DiCaprio's versatility as an actor, debunking his reputation as just another pretty face. Rumors have circulated that DiCaprio impregnated his leading lady during filming. Despite these rumors, the chemistry between Francoise...
...oldest son of Tamora Queen of the Goths (the passionate and powerful Jessica Lange) sets the plot of the piece in motion, he spends most of the play contemplating and acting on his understanding of the human capacity for evil. Certainly, he is not above revenge, but as the protagonist, he allows the audience to follow the inner workings of his mind, alternately scheming and wanting to trust. Hopkins' almost unimaginable emotional and theatrical range is particularly suited to this role, and through it he provides a something to hold on to throughout the movie to an audience who desperately...