Word: protagonists
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...screaming, pillaging rape of a village takes the protagonist, Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood), from a lush jungle to a stunningly depicted Mayan mecca and back again, as he tries to escape his death-happy captors. A prophecy foretells great and ominous things for him, but his most pressing thought is the rescue of his small son and very pregnant wife from the bottom of a well-cave combo where they were hiding during the sacking of their home. Luckily, nature, the fates, and his supernatural ability to rip arrows out of his torso conspire to help him thwart...
Opening the story proper, our historian sets the scene in Amsterdam, 1972. Sheltered, studious, and alienated from the “tough-talking, chain-smoking sophisticates” in the brat cohort of diplomats’ children, the protagonist spends long hours with the 19th century tomes in her father’s library during his frequent absences. She becomes captivated by a “much older volume” that breaks the collection’s uniformity: an enigmatic medieval text marked by a woodcut of a dragon and concealing a collection of yellowing letters...
Borat, the movie’s protagonist, hails from Kazakhstan, a nation which we are told has some of the cleanest prostitutes in central Asia. Cohen himself looks vaguely Muslim (Cohen is actually half-Israeli and half-Welsh) and his character Borat is incredibly out of sync with Western mores. Borat’s blend of misogyny, anti-Semitism, and general backwardness all carefully correspond with American stereotypes of Islam. Importantly, these are not always traits that Americans impute indiscriminately to all other cultures...
...cold had bought Flav’s new album, “Hollywood,” but that was because Newbury Comics made purchasing the CD a prerequisite for a spot in line. Their $13 wasn’t for the music, but rather for an encounter with the protagonist of “Flavor of Love”—VH1’s hit send-up of “The Bachelor”—in which a contestant who defecated on the floor tellingly survived a round of elimination. So they waited. And waited...
...Augusten is callous bordering on monstrous, but Bening somehow makes you sympathize with this hardhearted woman. As Augusten’s first boyfriend, Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare in Love”) is also heartbreakingly funny as he portrays a diagnosed schizophrenic who becomes enamored with the protagonist. In short, this is a movie filled with talented actors who become all the more impressive in the hands of a director who is able to create such a fantastic and compelling narrative. Murphy should also be commended for the film’s painful and isolating atmosphere that not only...