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...somehow one of the most despicable characters in recent cinema became beloved. The secret was combining the classic protagonist and antagonist from teen movies: Stifler is both John Belushi's drunk moron Bluto and the Waspy frat president Greg Marmalard from Animal House. He's a jerk, but he sure...
...device, and the secondary characters are almost indistinguishable, with the standard complication that the good guys are just as bad as the bad guys. Yet on his first time out, Bahal has succeeded admirably at the genre's main requirement by creating a complex and compelling (if frequently repellent) protagonist...
...overly contemplative when they do so, and therein lies a danger. Anyone who has ever read a novel or watched a film—or at least those of us with even a shred of imagination—will spend at least a few moments casting himself as the protagonist at the end of a journey and instinctively wonder what the whole thing meant. From the time we’re young, we’re taught that stories have morals. Storytime’s over, kids. What have we learned...
...travels in time through his movies, and the fossils he excavates are buried in the Czech national psyche; the collision of rock 'n' roll and communism in 1950s Czechoslovakia in Big Beat, his debut feature. Czechs collaborating with Nazis in his Oscar-nominated Divided We Fall. As the protagonist of that movie, a Czech whose family hides a Jew, puts it: "You wouldn't believe what abnormal times do to normal people." "I like to explore national embarrassments," says Hrebejk. "I don't condemn them, but they are hardly virtuous." In the tragicomic Pupendo, which has yet to be released...
...from the stock characters of Bollywood, Nair’s subjects are compelling and unusual. She depicts the life of prostitutes in Salaam Bombay and young American immigrants in Mississippi Masala. The protagonist of Monsoon Wedding is worldly and daring as she attempts to deal with her family’s wish for an arranged marriage and her own desire for the man she actually loves. Nair’s 1996 film Kama Sutra was censored in parts of India for its depiction of homosexuality...