Word: protagonists
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Experts agree that girls can be a handful, but they can't agree on why. One explanation is the Kill Bill culture--a reference to the famously bloody movie and its famously lethal female protagonist. If generations of boys found their mojo imitating the likes of Bruce Lee and James Bond, why shouldn't girls be equally juiced at the sight of a jumpsuited, sword-wielding Uma Thurman? ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY (a sister publication of TIME), recently ran an online list of Hollywood's 15 best "Butt-Kicking Babes," from the pugilistic Hilary Swank to the gun-toting Charlie's Angels...
Citizen Kane, Brokeback Mountain--those are movies with artistic intentions. Their titles allude to a complicated protagonist or an evocative setting and promise more intricacies when the lights go down. Snakes on a Plane is a different kind of movie. It's about snakes. On a plane. The snakes bite people. The end. "I knew I was going to do the movie when I saw the title," says Samuel L. Jackson, who plays an FBI agent escorting a mob witness on a doomed flight to Los Angeles. "I think I have an audience member's sensibility, and the title just...
...including that an advanced alien civilization is signaling out.” Big assumption, maybe, but Horowitz has always been up for the challenge. At eight, he became the world’s youngest licensed amateur radio operator. More recently, he served as a model for the protagonist in astronomer Carl Sagan’s novel Contact, made into a 1997 movie starring Jodie Foster. Fame can bring glory, but not necessarily little green men—or their flashing lights...
...voice to a great deal of philosophical anxiety. On gloomy “The Sound Of Failure,” Coyne takes on Gwen Stefani and Britney Spears for their don’t-worry-be-happy pop inanity. “Mr. Ambulance Driver” finds its protagonist hoping help arrives before a dying loved one expires. Despite the temporal confusion, the Lips make it work: “Mystics” is a remarkably sure-footed album, one that’s not quite normal but still tremendously infectious. It’s hard to think...
...evil, giant plans to take over the world. I needed someone who was captivating and who could have that power. Julia was it. She blew us away at auditions.”Chan hopes to bring “a sort of androgynous, ambiguous” aspect to the protagonist that will make her a more frightening and universal figure. Though other characters in the play are “flamboyant” and “outrageous,” she describes Knock as “very normal,” and has chosen to play...