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But as I matured, I would have Dominican protagonists, Muslim protagonists, Pakistani protagonists—or all three combined.
They relate to the dynamics among the parents and the teenage protagonists, and among the teen protagonists and their friends.
Worse, across mainstream movies and television, gay protagonists often gain their status as protagonists and palatability by distancing themselves from femininity.
They tell us who the protagonists are, and we're only too happy to accept what they say, even when those protagonists keep wrecking everything.
What might seem surprising in a genre that has become famous for its female protagonists is that the two main protagonists of "Beck", both middle-aged men, now feel exciting again.
A recent study found that women accounted for only 22 percent of protagonists in the top-grossing films of 2015 (and only 13 percent of protagonists in films directed by men).
Most children's television shows feature child protagonists, but very few of them openly admit that their child protagonists are forever doomed to shoulder the seemingly endless burden of their parent's mistakes.
Eve & Villanelle Once home, our two protagonists finally reunite.
It's getting better, it's opening up, but still if you look at the number of female protagonists in movies [compared to the number of] male protagonists in movies, it's still really low.
Novelists might dream of playing their protagonists in the movies.
Both feature protagonists who are preoccupied with that cultural moment.
We've got to bring our players along with our protagonists.
This episode, our protagonists actually nudge the boulder of change.
And like its protagonists, it revels in its double life.
But the film's protagonists aren't trying to escape the past.
The protagonists try to escape, to advance or to return.
Our protagonists, of course, are Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.
But in those movies, the protagonists tend to be sympathetic.
Like every other new sensate, he doesn't trust the protagonists.
Yeah, because to me, both of the protagonists are extremes.
"Age of Resistance" features three protagonists: Deet, Rian, and Brea.
Wade story and are still living, including her two protagonists.
"The Hero" represents the protagonists from multiple Dragon Quest games.
Like Kushner's Angel, Merrill's feels at one with the protagonists.
Instead, our protagonists must do like Arkansans do, and work.
But the lack of female directors and protagonists sticks out.
Men are always shifting the ground under both protagonists' feet.
And who are the protagonists — the villains or the victims?
Wanting protagonists to be likable signals a lack of sophistication.
Workers were the protagonists here, not hopeful husbands and wives.
Many of its protagonists, including the Trump administration, U.S. Sen.
Instead, it honors its protagonists by insisting on their frailty.
Although Salgari romanticised his protagonists, he tried not to patronise them.
But when we catch up with our two protagonists, they're stuck.
Many of its images showed his protagonists with tattoo-decorated bodies.
Probably because, if you look around, they are always the protagonists.
Ellis' protagonists aren't all housewives; they run the gamut of occupations.
Men made up 76% of protagonists, and 66% of speaking characters.
The protagonists have dark backstories, and occupy a moral grey area.
From here on out, I'm assuming, it's just our main protagonists.
Like the original, Shadow of War follows a pair of protagonists.
We watch Girls to judge the four protagonists' questionable life decisions.
Native cultures look both ominous and pathetic through our protagonists' eyes.
Normally, she's an accessory to the protagonists, who are usually men.
All four position their protagonists as outsiders, but Drake is different.
Few protagonists were winning—instead they were failing, dying, and learning.
His protagonists (if that's the word for them) are never far
Those viewers may not like these protagonists much, which is fine.
China frequently funds propaganda films featuring Chinese protagonists killing Japanese occupiers.
But with protagonists outside Bear's obvious comfort zone, he's noticeably clumsier.
Another major theme this year was the power of female protagonists.
Granted, thrillers aren't generally considered a genre that prioritizes multidimensional protagonists.
Like many teenage protagonists, Paige discovers disillusioning secrets about her parents.
The protagonists of "Cold War" are named after his late parents.
And like the other play, it sticks to its protagonists' stories.
The protagonists were white bread on which to build a sandwich.
The protagonists are at once fascinated with and confounded by America.
After all, the tragic ones tend to kill off their protagonists.
However specific his protagonists are, the reader can almost inhabit them.
But the beauty of Counterpart is right there in its protagonists.
Wood himself equivocated about the depicted relationship of the two protagonists.
Both Slaughterhouse-Five and Kindred feature protagonists who are "unstuck" in time.
The present, and its protagonists, is notable mostly for not being that.
Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sulley" Sullivan, the protagonists from Monsters Inc.
"Stories with strong male protagonists do not work in India," he says.
Going forward, these people will be the protagonists of 6563 Reasons Why.
I see them as fully joint protagonists, equal in purpose and meaning.
Since Alanna, Pierce has crafted other memorable female protagonists in numerous series.
Befitting its protagonists, "Loving" is a hushed work that shimmers with grace.
Villains and protagonists are thinly disguised versions of queens from RuPaul's enterprise.
Anti-heroic, equivocally likeable protagonists are stock characters in Mr Shinn's plays.
But it's divided into acts featuring three protagonists with different gameplay styles.
In terms of protagonists, 25050% of the films included leads with disabilities.
And, like protagonists these buildings too are malleable, impressionable, subject to change.
The trio of protagonists begin as strangers, and end as supportive friends.
Sure, Arya and Sansa have made it this far, but they're protagonists.
Marie Curie and Hidden Figures both rely on extremely watchable female protagonists.
Like novels, games bring us into close, intimate proximity to their protagonists.
Her protagonists evolve by the end of the story, but just barely.
Rick Grimes' nightmare — like most zombieland protagonists — begins with a wake up.
And just like the wrestling protagonists in Dangal, Kasish Mehta aims high.
Three of the best out there today happen to have female protagonists.
Our literature, film and entertainment is still dominated by white male protagonists.
Tentatively, games are embracing the idea of more and more diverse protagonists.
It luxuriates in the sexuality of its protagonists without ever exploiting it.
But the three protagonists of Good Boys are only 12 years old.
The protagonists that I've played tend to be people who make trouble.
Most superhero series, for instance, begin with young protagonists discovering their powers.
But all the protagonists are dead, and Bayer won't talk about it.
"Protagonists of both films are the youth of Hong Kong," she stated.
Throughout the brisk performance, the focus remains on the protagonists' psychological profiles.
The main protagonists are two nurses (played by actresses), both called Jackie.
Like many post-Philip Marlowe detectives, French's protagonists tend to be loners.
Protagonists are often motivated by their goals as much as by love.
Like so many of Scorsese's protagonists, Rodrigues is ultimately a man alone.
"Infatuation: Slowly" is an airy, ambient introduction to STRAND and its protagonists.
As with police procedurals, there's a central act of wrongdoing motivating the protagonists.
Well there are three protagonists, and they're basically equal players in the book.
A load of people shared it there, tagging the protagonists, asking for answers.
Of its three protagonists, only one, Jane (Katie Stevens) is a magazine writer.
"I think that this only highlights the naivety of the protagonists," Smith wrote.
They narrate the film, they're the protagonists, it's all seen from their perspective.
In this tale of strengthening ties, the border-hoppers are the main protagonists.
"Female protagonists have a really rich history in the horror genre," Antosca said.
The two protagonists first meet on line at the airport in Los Angeles.
The protagonists aren't mentally ill, they're dealing with a different medical condition entirely.
Green's protagonists, throughout all of his books, have always had rich interior lives.
You're The Worst arrived at a time when unlikable protagonists were breaking out.
That said, quite a few of their games do feature protagonists with guns.
But I didn't want to take the focus away from these two protagonists.
Epic in that we see an entire cluster that is not our protagonists.
Sometimes, protagonists fell victim to an evil too big for them to overcome.
A study found in 2009 that 80 percent of games protagonists are white.
He's now stranded there as the two protagonists go back in time again.
Each of these protagonists challenges the idea that Black identity is a monolith.
The Purge: Anarchy saw the franchise's budget increase as its protagonists' dramatically decreased.
And the story went on, with even more protagonists dying along the way.
Both teasers ask their respective protagonists: What do you love about your partner?
SALINAS (through translator): Now, we're going to welcome the protagonists of this debate.
This is what women see: that somehow, we've made men the protagonists again.
We realized these books had strong female protagonists and were psychological in nature.
Three decades later, some protagonists have changed, but the plot remains the same.
His two protagonists are gay teenagers, yes, and one of them is black.
Sketchbook | The legendary graphic designer, Seymour Chwast, draws some of his favorite protagonists.
We are, as Lake writes, meeting the protagonists of a new global narrative.
Typically, protagonists must overcome self-doubt, but Joan is galvanized from the start.
So they were caught between those two very immovable protagonists — or rather, antagonists.
Our protagonists realize the system is broken and set out to fix it.
But this episode isn't a meaningful look at either slavery or our protagonists.
Bend It Like Beckham is strikingly modern in its treatment of its female protagonists.
Although these books focus on teenage protagonists, the genre's appeal has no age restrictions.
Farah Karim, one of the game's principal protagonists is modeled on Kurdish freedom fighters .
Swapping heroes and superheroes — protagonists and antagonists — could be gamble that pays out big.
Her protagonists are not people but two expressions: "the American dream" and "America first".
He believes humans "aren't necessarily protagonists" in their surroundings, though the architecture suggests otherwise.
Instead, they use protagonists' unstable mental states as a landscape for twists and turns.
With that, the film's protagonists—especially her characters of color—took the biggest hit.
"We're so used to seeing men as protagonists in our society," Ursu told me.
The protagonists all struggle on Earth to be better people following near-death experiences.
These kinds of protagonists typically rely on an arsenal of badass skills and knowledge.
In 2016, they made up less than 30% of the main protagonists in films.
There are three protagonists in Yorgos Lanthimos' captivating, and completely unique drama, The Favourite.
In the world of kink, feet may become the protagonists of complex erotic plotlines.
It also, with its arresting female protagonists, makes a good match for the times.
Lonergan's protagonists often don't have the tools to express the depth of their anguish.
Skyler is one of the most impactful, memorable protagonists in 'Queer Eye' to date.
But all these protagonists have desires: for sex, for an acting gig, for escape.
They weren't watching over me, exactly; they were the protagonists of their own stories.
Other times, the exactitude of her characterizations takes a toll, rendering her protagonists archetypical.
There are a lot of male protagonists in pop culture that aren't actually heroes.
And then start applying some basic logic to the behavior of your female protagonists.
Could you talk about the decision to first show the film's protagonists in masks?
The protagonists, and Sharon Tate and her friends, all presumably live happily ever after.
By way of movie magic, we are able to witness the protagonists' telekinetic abilities.
The pair made off with just $11,000, to be shared between the four protagonists.
Two new comedy series — BET's "Twenties" and FXX's "Dave" — follow creative protagonists building careers.
The dramas he selected featured protagonists who scored a win before the credits rolled.
The director Angela Robinson has devoted her career to stories with strong female protagonists.
DAILY CROSSWORD COLUMN Debbie Ellerin's puzzle comes with protagonists, antagonists, and maybe some agony.
Instead, it creates massive, sprawling ensembles that feature lots and lots of potential protagonists.
And "Midnights," by Rainbow Rowell follows the protagonists' relationship across four New Year's Eves.
As the protagonists make their entrances, the women, in particular, object to these introductions.
In another Rohmer movie, the protagonists would meander around while having long philosophical chats.
In Catherine and Charles Scorsese, he found the inverse of his desperate fictional protagonists.
The book's surface holds stillness and movement in tension, reflecting its young protagonists' lives.
One of the protagonists, Kat Edison (Aisha Dee), is Scarlet's head of social media.
In the 2018 horror film A Quiet Place, noise is our protagonists' biggest threat.
They became protagonists for my reportages and exhibitions in different parts of the world.
None of these people were typical or predictable heroes and protagonists in the story.
Following are some of the main protagonists from the Ukrainian side of the story.
The protagonists are the officials engaged in the deception, headed by the president himself.
Drollinger has compared Pence to Mordecai, Esther's uncle and one of the book's protagonists.
More importantly, Chun-Li showed that video games could benefit from having female protagonists.
The player character in Three Houses, Byleth, is similar to other recent Fire Emblem protagonists.
The fiction tends to be written by men, and their protagonists tend to be men.
Its protagonists make a great duo, alternating between sophisticated genre-savvy observations and adolescent vulnerability.
"This is what happens when people are too close," one of the protagonists ruefully states.
This leaves room for Naruse's plain neorealism to focus on unassuming, but stalwart female protagonists.
The two films are just worlds apart in what their protagonists are able to do.
The visceral nature of horror allows audiences to identify and empathize with the genre's protagonists.
We love to imagine the movie's protagonists falling in love while we watch it back.
Both have incredibly powerful protagonists, with the show often more fascinated with the supporting cast.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014) shows that two young protagonists can save each other.
But, women shouldn't be limited to creating shows with protagonists who look just like them.
The protagonists have multiplied as France and Italy now join Greece as likely exit candidates.
It's been well-covered that video game protagonists tend to be a homogeneously white bunch.
There is no central character; the plot follows several protagonists inhabiting distinct, though intermingling, storylines.
Pretty Little Liars catches its protagonists in adolescence, before this watching has become completely normalized.
In the end, an unrigged election requires the protagonists' goodwill and willingness to accept defeat.
Assault, both sexual and domestic, is a shadow that looms large over the two protagonists.
It is no accident that the protagonists of the game are a pack of dogs.
This loyalty to the protagonists is both the strength and the weakness of the series.
These assaults are conducted by heroic protagonists that the audience is supposed to identify with.
The young protagonists are struggling to carve out a personal and political role for themselves.
The two protagonists, like many millenials, hide behind whatever person they tell themselves they are.
Content-wise, women made up 2009% of leading protagonists, and 32% of overall speaking characters.
"Because there are different protagonists, the state will have to bring those together," she added.
It's by far the worst network when it comes to diverse protagonists or diverse showrunners.
Exhibit B: Somehow the astronaut protagonists lose their bearings completely when their space station rotates.
It was becoming increasingly clear that far from being protagonists, England fans were actually victims.
It is within this duality of culture that her protagonists rest both comfortably and uncomfortably.
Nearly all Morrison's protagonists are women whose identities and narrative trajectories fill entire fictional universes.
Givens drops a big dose of hopepunk into each of his protagonists' hearts and minds.
His protagonists are nearly overwhelmed by fear and anguish, even their own lust for power.
Bachelorette, on the other hand, slaps its protagonists across the face with an open palm.
It wants its protagonists to steer the ship, not to be carried by the current.
For whatever reason, it suddenly holds responsibility for all Asian shows or leads or protagonists.
The two figures in the middle of painting represent the book's protagonists, Poliphili and Polia.
The protagonists feel misunderstood by the world that surrounds them, which isn't an uncommon feeling.
The film follows three protagonists whose stories merge through their love of riding the waves.
S. trade spat, and major trading partners of the two protagonists, like Australia, could suffer.
Some locals say they can identify the real-life inspirations for the film's main protagonists.
And Thorne's adaptations revel in getting to first explore and then soothe their protagonists' loneliness.
It's as internal and retrospective as "Handmaid's" is propulsive, though both protagonists are slyly defiant.
But unlike other bad-guy cable protagonists, they do it out of principle, however misguided.
Butler's writing not only featured African-Americans as protagonists; it specifically highlighted African-American women.
Indeed, many of the potential protagonists (or victims) in Catastrophes or A Performance are women.
From "Solitaire" (217) to "Different Drummer" (222), he presented many of his protagonists as outsiders.
It's worth noting that both of Rooney's novels end before their protagonists graduate from college.
Oneal's protagonists wrestle with finding themselves (often in art) and with their disappointment in adults.
He comes back on later seasons when the protagonists encounter the Bad Place demons again.
Is it a coincidence that all three have male protagonists who instinctively resist patriarchal brutishness?
If you've ever wanted a sprawling literary Western with queer protagonists, this is your book.
"We need to have protagonists of so-called real life in the cabinet," he said.
It invited you to feel a complicated identification with protagonists who had done terrible things.
"I didn't want the dancers to be ornamental accessories to the protagonists," said Mr. Cogitore.
Even "Inglourious Basterds" and "Schindler's List" are stories about non-Jewish protagonists saving Jewish characters.
Remarkably, Viktoria Dendrinou and Eleni Varvitsioti convey the excitement and tension felt by the protagonists.
Powerful female protagonists were formulated in Khaleesi's image, or cut from Olivia Pope's coat cloth.
Then it had the protagonists acting as bodhisattvas, forsaking their own redemption to help others.
The close of the trailer finds the series' protagonists highlighting the tension Black creatives face.
Ellie is once again here to shake things up for young female protagonists in games.
It was also not afraid to sacrifice popular characters or protagonists to advance a storyline.
In the tortured protagonists of 2019, I found joy in failure and meaning beyond success.
And, crucially, "Outlander" is committed to having Jamie and Claire be heroes, not just protagonists.
The Creators Project spoke to Ruth about her series of powerful black-and-white protagonists.
I'm fond of Mordecai Richler's protagonists, who tend to be sardonic, somewhat self-destructive boozers.
Like many protagonists of timeless stories, Ajijaak is young, alone and facing an arduous journey.
And just in general, you just don't see three African American main protagonists in a movie.
Music videos and thermal imaging go hand-in-hand like fingerless gloves and video-game protagonists.
In these cases, Black women are just pawns used in the plot advancement of white protagonists.
I assume that if you're listening to this podcast, you'd be into very interior female protagonists.
Unlike most of our other protagonists, he's not consciously befriending people whose values he supposedly loathed.
But their protagonists are troublemakers, bucking against the expectations for docile white middle-class teenage girls.
I've always been drawn to the so-called bad girls of Disney rather than the protagonists.
Besides, even when the protagonists are forewarned, there is still great scope for getting it wrong.
You learn a lot about movie protagonists from the first choice they make in a story.
They float, as Mr Morris tugs the reader into the boozy, bitchy world of his protagonists.
All of them are aware of gender dynamics, particularly as barriers for the protagonists to overcome.
"I'm interested in narratives with black protagonists that don't follow an expected script," Senna told MashReads.
Between these poles lies the long second act that traditionally threatens to keep the protagonists apart.
"I had the idea of making a film with three women as main protagonists," he says.
But they do share an implicit understanding that their protagonists' feelings of alienation are well-founded.
In "Fifty Shades Darker", protagonists Anastasia Steele and Christian Gray reconcile and start their relationship afresh.
What to watch: Farage is just one of the populist protagonists in this week's European elections.
While the number of female protagonists rose, the number of speaking roles actually declined by 1%.
Octopath Traveler has no central conflict to speak of, no driving force pushing its protagonists together.
Saudi Arabia recently held its first Comic-Con, and it featured content with strong female protagonists.
It helps that three of the eight protagonists earn a sort of genuine release this episode.
Stories that end happily ever after are more satisfying if their protagonists have triumphed over misery.
But he tends to work with protagonists with more personality and specificity, and less Everyman approachability.
The show knows this, and deals with this, in explicitly showing how events shaped its protagonists.
It's also hard not to notice the absence of Miyazaki's trademark female protagonists and complicated villains.
Our disparate protagonists resist connection because solitude is comfortable when living with this kind of anguish.
The forbidden nature of how the protagonists' court their prey, makes the hunt alluring to watch.
Neither the protagonists, the Baudelaire orphans, nor the antagonist Count Olaf appear in the brief clip.
But mostly, the film is as visually and narratively off-putting as the increasingly hateful protagonists.
Saulnier stays clear-eyed as the body count rises, never not believing in his young protagonists.
Like the protagonists of most male-led teen soaps, Dawson was unfailingly wholesome and morally upright.
They shut down their protagonists' choices, which helps build the sympathy the film might otherwise lack.
Mugen Noh stories often take place after the protagonists have died: lives lived in the past.
Like the protagonists of Waiting for Godot, her vague desire to move never gets her anywhere.
The protagonists of acclaimed women's fiction these days tend to be glamorous, self-centered, and cynical.
Even when ill eventually befalls the protagonists, Bong and Scafaria never blame them for their undoing.
We need to stop giving children books and taking them to movies with only male protagonists.
While The Righteous Gemstones is funny, the disdain it holds for its own protagonists is jarring.
After Villeneuve's stop the world title protagonists were nose-to-tail and fighting for the lead.
But, in the five vignettes that make up the campaign, all of the protagonists are white.
A scene in which an electrical storm menaces the movie's protagonists also generates some visual interest.
Throughout the game, your protagonists find a number of VHS tapes, each serving a different purpose.
Unlike, say, Shakespearean protagonists, he has no serious character flaws, conflicted feelings, fears, guilt or regrets.
Opposition parties have recently shared new arts policies that NAVA and the Protagonists view as promising.
Of all the protagonists of the 2005 Ashes series, he was one of the most minor.
And yet these protagonists are unable to laugh at themselves, or mine their tragedies for humor.
The bristly protagonists of Fox's "24" and "House, M.D." broke rules to get the job done.
"It is so hard not to see athletes as protagonists in their own story," Cohan said.
Did she think "Marriage Story" would have worked dramatically if its protagonists had not gotten divorced?
Should we root for its protagonists, who use their talents to extract money from unsuspecting men?
Both, whether consciously or subconsciously, question the meaning of life's pursuits via their protagonists' chosen professions.
Other additions include extra time with confidants, battles against past protagonists, and new places to visit.
Mary-Alice Dodge is one of the mutest protagonists I've ever come across in a book.
Many of the conflict's protagonists will mingle at a security conference this weekend in Munich, Germany.
Britain's long, drawn-out split from the EU, whatever the protagonists say publicly, is getting messier.
In particular, the tension between personal intent and moral action pulls at protagonists on both sides.
Protagonists in all three of these films are, without question, doing the best that they can.
The overall trilogy even follows the typical three-act structure: The first part introduces the characters and conflict, the second part contains a huge disaster that sets back the protagonists, and the third part has the protagonists coming out of that disaster and securing their victory.
Be prepared to see Rosie The Riveter boiler suits like protagonists Molly and Amy's everywhere this summer.
Gizmodo: This book and The Accidental Billionaires both had the protagonists receive additional funding from Peter Thiel.
In 2016, 29 percent of the protagonists featured in the top 100 grossing films domestically were women.
I wouldn't count the Lannisters out just yet, especially since they're now the show's de facto protagonists.
" Haris Durrani on diversity: "Initially I was very colonized, probably, so my protagonists were mainly white men.
"You can literally count on one hand the number of male protagonists in her stories," Franklin says.
It's true, though, that Stan has never been as invested in the geopolitical stakes as other protagonists.
Those who spend their time viciously attacking others shouldn't be treated as the protagonists of the story.
I wasn't used to reading stories where the youthful protagonists face such grave mortal and existential peril.
Republicans tend to watch shows driven by white, male protagonists, like The Big Bang Theory and Grimm.
What it lacked in a logical plot, it made up for with likable protagonists and holiday charm.
Yes, all four movies are comedies starring four protagonists, but in reality, they couldn't be more different.
Mr Figes refrains from judgment about his protagonists and lets the densely woven detail speak for itself.
The original Jurassic Park stands out among action films largely because its protagonists weren't regular action heroes.
The main protagonists are African scientists, doctors and nurses, and I detail their lives and their experiences.
But this means his protagonists have a tendency to become strange, alien gods after a few seasons.
Played by Jerry Ferrara, Turtle is one of the four charming protagonists in HBO's hit show Entourage.
The protagonists of Blair Witch, in theaters this weekend, should know what awaits them in the woods.
Another popular occupation was digging up the grave of one of the first season's protagonists, Dolores Abernathy.
They're something akin to antiheroes, functioning as protagonists or the films' main draw without being good guys.
In mainstream superhero stories, the protagonists don't need to fight the law, because they're on its side.
The Defenders unites the protagonists of Netflix's Marvel shows Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil, and Iron Fist.
These are the protagonists of the latest documentary film from Unleashed, featuring female artisans around the world.
"Netroots" bloggers like Markos Moulitsas were natural protagonists, and the magazine's coverage bent to reflect this change.
On one hand, it feels like part of a general lack of confidence in female game protagonists.
The protagonists themselves vary depending on the world, but most of them have grown tired of monotony.
The series is incredibly progressive: In a recent issue, that one of the series' protagonists is gay.
And Reese Witherspoon digs fiction with female protagonists, like, say, a little novel called Big Little Lies.
These are not appealing people The big difference is in how seriously the protagonists' damage is taken.
I started my career in features by shooting a movie in 1998 called "The Protagonists" with Tilda.
For the protagonists, DJing, graffiti, breakdancing and rapping offer an escape from drug-pushing and gang war.
His protagonists become expressive individuals, yet they inhabit a world where hierarchies are fixed and freedoms circumscribed.
The protagonists of this dark French Quarter novel are knee-deep in murder, torture, sex and cannibalism.
Director Kukunoor spends more time trying to make his protagonists look cute and play to the gallery.
And like a classic Miyazaki film, Milford's story features precociously talented young protagonists struggling against dark forces.
Even American westerns posited a surprising number of neatly trimmed frontier protagonists, reserving scruff for their foes.
In their coming-of-age movies, the protagonists are more likely to defeat evil than become it.
Grimmer predictions on Reddit baited the possibility that we would lose one of the series' beloved protagonists.
The reboot will join a growing number of comics that are placing female protagonists at the forefront.
But his death has resonance as the latest tragedy to befall our unfortunate Stark family of protagonists.
Black people are still its main protagonists and yet white palatability seems to now be the goal.
Other artworks put on display robotic-like human protagonists who are being decomposed by the natural world.
Amid the boundary-pushing moments, there was one glaring omission: women, both as directors and as protagonists.
It's also the rare feminist TV comedy whose perspective is split evenly between male and female protagonists.
That's why the space given to these lesbian teen protagonists feels like a breath of fresh air.
Yet few Y.A. protagonists identify with a particular faith tradition, or claim spirituality as something of interest.
It's a long shot, and the protagonists have shown no serious interest, but that's the reality nonetheless.
Something I like about Private Citizens is how much attention you paid to how your protagonists look.
Most of Mr. Roth's protagonists are, like Neil Klugman, adrift in a limbo between past and present.
"The age of stories with protagonists is over," says Sasha Masha (Robert Dowling), the company's resident playwright.
These female protagonists are looking for respect in ways that don't necessarily fit with their lived experience.
At the end of the evening, they turn Bolshevik, storm Tolstoy's novel and take its protagonists hostage.
The reason most games rely on powerful protagonists is because power allows for more variety in gameplay.
The protagonists are car thieves turned action heroes, who are mostly black, Asian, Latina or racially ambiguous.
Has some fantastic action and loved how the film features 3 female protagonists that all kick-ass.
Patrick: So potentially that's eight enemy factions, but it's probably six enemy factions and then four [protagonists].
Which is why we cheer for our doomed protagonists even when we know that tragedy is inevitable.
But the protagonists' falls into criminality raise serious questions, beyond the easy explanations reported in the media.
If the male gaze reduces women to static sex objects, the female gaze turns them into protagonists.
His protagonists tend to be characters who compartmentalize their humanity in order to become merciless death machines.
Flanagan has made a habit of directing female protagonists in small spaces (Oculus and Hush both feature female protagonists confined to a single location, for example), and the parameters of Gerald's Game allow him to do what he does best — explore his female characters while ratcheting up tension.
Personal Best is a good film that could have been great had it been able to address the relationship between its protagonists more openly, and perhaps focused the third act more on the boycott than on the boyfriend that one of the protagonists happens to fall in love with.
In films with men occupying those roles behind the camera, only 13 percent of the protagonists were women.
Yet the message being sent is that no one could buy them as the protagonists of these stories.
Generally, Up Lit books track quirky, offbeat protagonists on their journeys to creating a fulfilling web of relationships.
Is it a wish-fulfillment scenario in which the protagonists avoid the fate we know to be theirs?
I first read it when I, like the protagonists, was 17, and I too was desperate for adventure.
When they begin, their protagonists are trapped in fundamentally broken relationships they feel some need to persist with.
The rest, including the film's protagonists, are left to rot as they wander the bombed out British city.
As one of the book's protagonists, a Daoist undertaker and fortune-teller, says: "You create your own fate."
Only a handful of those protagonists, most notably Mad Men's Don Draper, eventually came close to doing so.
Meanwhile, loathsome antagonists like Vanessa Gekko and Rutabaga Rabitowitz were revealed as the protagonists of their own stories.
The clip ends here, but it's clear that this is where it all begins for our two protagonists.
When The System disappoints "Hang the DJ"'s protagonists, they have nowhere in particular to direct their anger.
The reel of solitary protagonists, installed in a distant corner of the exhibition floor, appropriately discourages group viewing.
Lazarin's trove of protagonists, ranging in age, circumstance, and city, will speak to a different part of you.
The film's protagonists are part of the Paris branch of ACT UP—the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.
Like Bean, Big Mouth's young protagonists are pursued by creatures encouraging them to give in to their impulses.
This is not an unusual combination for Gaiman, who tends to like everyman protagonists with faithless, abrasive girlfriends.
Later works continue thematically into dark recesses of youth and family life; her protagonists are almost always female.
But if you can forgive slightly stereotyped woman protagonists, Eggers's novel repackages frontiersmanship into a diverting new form.
Across the board the only developments in the protagonists' lives are more sacrifices, lost loved ones, and injuries.
In the film, it's all part of the protagonists' trip to Camazotz, an exaggerated Pleasantville-meets-1984 utopia.
Early on, protagonists Claire and Leon hear a radio message instructing all citizens to head for the station.
Disney's classic "princess" films are packed with female protagonists and targeted – for the most part – toward little girls.
Lena and her fellow protagonists are investigating a phenomenon for which they are literally biologically unequipped to process.
Looking over his film career, Rickman played more romantic heroes, or at least compromised protagonists, than outright monsters.
Our singer/songwriter protagonists, sergeants Arlondo Sutton and Jason Brenner Locke, greet each other with a bro hug.
Of the 3,400 children’s books published in 2015, surveys estimate that only 333 featured black protagonists.
In Westworld, the most likeable protagonists are supremely lifelike robots: Known as hosts, they fuck, bleed, and sleep.
Dishonored 2's dual protagonists—Empress Emily Kaldwin, and her father, Royal Protector Corvo Attano—can do both.
Her protagonists are often a lot like Greer: intelligent, ambitious, and all the same a little bit aimless.
The male protagonists of several new sitcoms are not as belligerent as the male protagonist of the election.
At its core was a story born of literature: two protagonists revisiting a fateful moment from decades ago.
After "Herbie," I tried to set up a bunch of projects, and they always had strong female protagonists.
Just as the two main protagonists will be tested, so will the 21 senators on the Judiciary Committee.
One of HBO's biggest problems in recent years is that it seems afraid of having any genuine protagonists.
In movies and literature, for instance, our favorite protagonists tend to be flawed or troubled in some way.
"It is important to recognize that we are the protagonists in Korean Peninsula-related issues," Mr. Moon said.
And you can learn about the other protagonists of the Purim story — including Mordechai and King Ahasuerus — here.
Hinton's male protagonists are born into penniless homes, where violence is a survival tactic and vulnerability is forbidden.
Both books foreground female protagonists who work with, or for, the boy-genius college dropout-turned-philosopher-king.
The Buenos Aires tetazo's protagonists, perhaps inadvertently, showed what the battle for such a shift might look like.
You read A Separate Peace waiting for the teen protagonists to kiss (fraternal love, give me a break).
This shared story has two protagonists whose needs must be fulfilled, two individuals whose fears must be surmounted.
The production's newly enhanced scale matches the aspirations of not only the play's author but also its protagonists.
And in the case of one of the show's teenage protagonists (and internet boyfriend), voluminous 'dos on men.
Indeed, I recently finished my third novel set in and around rural Indiana, featuring strong women as protagonists.
The entire score is based on a single "super formula," which supplies thematic material for the three protagonists.
The protagonists of Perry's ingenious thrillers are usually skilled at devising schemes for getting out of awkward situations.
Her protagonists seethe over their knowledge of violence and are fueled by a howling grief for its victims.
All I did was capture its spirit and energy with an open mind and respect for its protagonists.
As the novel advances, all three protagonists question their beliefs in the face of the brutal realities of combat.
The center found that in films with a female director or writer, 50 percent of the protagonists were women.
" The bottom line, according to Ansari (who has tackled racial subjects before): "There's not enough protagonists that look different.
And a Luigi costume in case you want your bear to represent one of Nintendo's slightly less appreciated protagonists.
The protagonists, much like Groff's representation of Florida itself, seem to straddle a contentious line between wilderness and civilization.
The pairing makes sense: a filmmaker who understands superheroes and female protagonists, matched with a girl in a cape.
Here are the flawed protagonists we need, the restless youth taking matters into their own hands – no superpowers necessary.
We find ourselves in the midst of a civil war ruthlessly prosecuted by protagonists whose bloodlust knows no bounds.
The protagonists' words have direct impact on physical spaces in Ravicka, as well as the events that transpire there.
They sacrificed themselves for white heroes or were killed off to show the high stakes that white protagonists faced.
Taped on their dashboards are photographs of their dogs, who are invariably named after their favorite on-screen protagonists.
She said she saw parallels between her character and Wayne's where the protagonists are never just black or white.
Lish's breathless, unfriendly prose mimics the disjointedness of city life and the precariousness of existence for his two protagonists.
Through her mobile games, she emphasizes female protagonists and heroines instead of vixens or princesses in need of saving.
When we meet our protagonists, Rumi (Taapsee Pannu) and Vicky (Vicky Kaushal) are in a no-holds-barred relationship.
The feud could go on indefinitely, if only because the main protagonists are rich enough to take the hits.
Another tiring pattern is the frequency with which Hernandez's mostly male protagonists express angst about their fathers or sons.
There is no point to a horror movie if we can't believe the protagonists have some chance of survival.
If CSM represents the easy nihilism of the times, the show's protagonists embody a will to fight for truth.
The audience starts out as naïve as the unreliable protagonists, which means that when they're surprised, we're surprised, too.
But as the protagonists of "Small Island" find out, many British people did not quite see it that way.
The protagonists chase success, coming tantalizingly close to a victory before having it snatched away at the last moment.
Single women in their 40s can be protagonists of TV shows (Sarah Jessica Parker is in one such show).
It shows sepia-toned photographs of the two protagonists and a transcript of their conversation while the audio plays.
When Disney re-embraced animated princess films in the 1990s, it set about giving its protagonists more to do.
Several of his protagonists are journalists, who were put in a difficult situation by their sympathies for the Republic.
That said, I think it's really interesting how the show has essentially completed its shift to having three protagonists.
And this knowledge is everywhere: Our society largely depicts women as supporters and assistants rather than leaders and protagonists.
Many assume it has to do with the age of the readers, or even the age of the protagonists.
In the original ending, Elsa enlisted an army of snow monsters of her own creation to attack the protagonists.
There's a curious lack of urgency to the video, perhaps in part because of the nature of its protagonists.
The focus moves from the logistics of defeating the Angels to the toll fighting them has on the protagonists.
In journey narratives, the protagonists' odysseys are often mapped out for the reader, but not for the characters themselves.
But she agreed to appear in his first feature, "The Protagonists," which he now dismisses as a learning experience.
The way "Age of Resistance" uses each of its protagonists to mine a different fantasy hero trope is fantastic.
Her minor characters—villains—might be petty or have bad politics (centrists), but her protagonists lack spite and bile.
All the other kids—the protagonists' crushes, their geeky buds, their rich-girl nemeses—are played by real teens.
Dangling corpses, explosions, and other events generally reserved for the protagonists of action films had the audience literally gasping.
But, although all four protagonists are queer, for none of them does that journey include a coming-out narrative.
"Both of those movies have these protagonists who really push themselves to the edge for their art," Mazzei says.
Games like the Nancy Drew and Drawn series effortlessly tell stories centered around women, and often star women protagonists.
Alisha Rai and Sonali Dev have expanded the genre with love stories that feature Indian and Indian-American protagonists.
We've seen protagonists whose bottled-up anger turns them sullen, violent and heedless of others, but they're usually men.
Freddy gets to mope about her on-and-off relationship with Laura Dean, just as countless heterosexual protagonists do.
Similarly, Jennifer—like countless other female protagonists of the rape-revenge genre—is not punished at the film's end.
Her early books, including 2013's The Crooked Branch and 2010's The Outside Boy, featured Irish-American protagonists.
All three share Evanovich's boisterous humor, but one thing separating the protagonists is their vocabulary, as the website MyCentralJersey.
One by one, RuPaul held up various classic works of children's literature and proceeded to roast their beloved protagonists.
After 80 minutes, our protagonists come at last to the intended destiny of these fluted UFOs: They eat them.
But economics is more useful if we teach students to see themselves as protagonists on the economic playing field.
The story delivers a few moments that should be heart-wrenching for its protagonists, putting beloved characters at risk.
The answers vary widely: film protagonists, TV show villains, an ad on the subway, the resilience of a friend.
Porsche provided a facility in Stuttgart, Germany, and Twitch turned the drivers into protagonists for the audiences to play.
Fictional detectives make handy protagonists because they have license to explore milieus that are off limits to other characters.
When we meet our trio of protagonists — crass-talking, in street clothes — it's hard to tell they are cops.
Good Girls has a wild plot but finds depth in flawed, relatable protagonists and unexpected stories about women empowerment.
Their authors/protagonists overcome a major hurdle in their lives, but that hardly means their issues are neatly archived.
Two Indigenous protagonists discuss their hopes and anxieties about the future, their concerns framed by retelling of Native myths.
The first season is driven by two strong protagonists — a pair of unforgettable detectives obsessed with the same case.
Gleefully deadpan, these chromogenic prints depict narrative tableaus with sausages, cigarette butts, and their non-human ilk as protagonists.
Which brings us to the other big reason Noé's films are so often despised: His protagonists are often despicable.
At one point during the show, the tower turns into a giant sword wielded by one of the protagonists.
Your novels' two protagonists, Mark Watney and Jazz Bashara, face very different challenges and environments in their respective worlds.
We'll watch drama protagonists kill people or destroy lives or cheat on their spouses and barely bat an eye.
I think a lot about video game protagonists and how we as an industry can make them more compelling.
These series are wildly different at their core, centered on strong and infectious protagonists who draw viewers into their lives.
One scene finds the main protagonists descend into an argument that is only resolved after an explanation of oscillating feedback.
The series' protagonists, Simone (Alba August) and her brother Rasmus (Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen), spend five years in an apocalypse bunker.
The struggles and the heartaches and the successes of queer people as protagonists — there still is not enough of that.
As a friend of mine likes to put it, these programs should help create protagonists, writers of their own narrative.
They detect genuine excitement over the prospect of a great-power contest in which China is one of the protagonists.
The landscapes are atmospheric and loaded with meaning, the protagonists troubled, and the crime bears a social or psychological dimension.
Why You Should Watch It: Watch Alien for Ellen Ripley, one of the most badass women protagonists in movie history.
Press turns writing room dynamics into plot points, and the showrunners bringing women's stories to TV into three-dimensional protagonists.
Instead, he's put in the hours when nothing sensational is happening, often enduring the same hardships faced by his protagonists.
The novel's protagonists brought to life, with excitement and warmth, the acts I'd only heard described clinically in health class.
Ostensibly, the protagonists' goal is to best the game's challenges and successfully bring Skaia to bloom, creating their new universe.
A lot of old Vaudeville acts ended with one or more of the protagonists getting a pie in the face.
Though these protagonists definitely endure their share of struggles, you can actually relax and enjoy their journeys that—spoiler alert!
The incredibly popular survival horror genre is defined by protagonists who are, whether male or female, all outmatched and afraid.
"Real Life" vacillates between two protagonists, Sarah (Anna Paquin) and George (Terrence Howard) who can't shake the connection between them.
Like Darger's protagonists, the Vivian Girls were, on the surface, almost angelic, with their three-part harmonies and pop sensibilities.
The only thing seemingly tying our protagonists together is the decrepit motel that makes for the backdrop for the film.
One of the series' primary protagonists is a septuagenarian Indian woman in a crucial executive role in the United Nations.
The women in Soft Fiction assume double roles as both protagonists and storytellers, actively selecting, framing, and articulating their experiences.
Marley launched #1000BlackGirlBooks in November to raise awareness of books featuring black girls and other people of color as protagonists.
Most told me no, just as fans of the film appreciate its arc even through the flaws of its protagonists.
In other words, just two games — ReCore and Horizon Zero Dawn — have female leads, while 24 games had male protagonists.
There are so few protagonists with a real beard—they always just have sorry little three-day stubble going on.
The concept seems to be more important than the protagonists, quite an abstract notion that, surprisingly enough, has become practical.
The protagonists' faces are minimalist and distorted, sometimes with eyes nearly vertical in their heads, and simple slashes for noses.
These quotidian moments are placed into a cohesive whole, giving players access to the inner lives of the games' protagonists.
Finally, in the last chapter, practical examples of life in communication with nature and other non-human protagonists are presented.
The protagonists (refreshingly, both women) form a powerful centre of gravity, each representative of one faction of a divided country.
That said, in my own reading I relate to heroes and protagonists who are a bit more flawed and vulnerable.
As Masha Gessen notes in her review of Chernobyl, the show falls down when it makes heroes of its protagonists.
This illogical stubbornness is all in the spirit of the book's inclination to throw obstacle after obstacle at its protagonists.
In an uncharacteristically warm and generous assessment of his friend's masterwork, he wrote: Less original novelists tenaciously follow their protagonists.
The female protagonists in both novels are extremely thin, neurotic geniuses with at least one terrible or outright abusive parent.
His protagonists are often pitted against overwhelming bureaucracies, inhabiting a nightmarish world that was the model for the term "Kafkaesque".
In 2014, the last time good data was available, only 14 percent of mainstream sci-fi films had women protagonists.
This issue sees the heroes trying to attack an imperial star destroyer, and it feels classically hopeless for the protagonists.
The main protagonists among their staff are played by award-winning Indian actress Huma Qureshi and U.S. actor Manish Dayal.
A running theme in her films is her protagonists' alienation from other women—they rarely seem to have female friends.
There's about six hours of beautifully and meticulously designed solo gameplay after that, and all the protagonists have white skin.
You have this looming evil-doer Darth Vader with two crossed, red lightsabers hovering over the protagonists in the foreground.
This belief informs my biographies, and it's why my favorite fictional characters are not heroes or protagonists but supporting characters.
GDPR is good, but it does not solve the problems of surveillance capitalism, instead strengthening the position of its protagonists.
And Mr. Marek finds in the beleaguered, married Burgess hints of the more fully drawn, dissatisfied Gurney protagonists to come.
"I believe in the importance of recognizing that we are the protagonists in Korean Peninsula-related issues," Mr. Moon said.
I'm more interested in the thriller genre, and putting protagonists in peril—I like kinetic, high-stakes, high-impact filmmaking.
The point of the series of exhibitions is to create a sacred space with all of us as the protagonists.
But even when her protagonists are male, they avoid the macho posturing of so many science fiction and fantasy heroes.
I want to tap into those things but actually use protagonists who look like me — queer, black, working-class Jamaicans.
The constant slippage between the protagonists' perceptions and the reality of the things around them carries through all the stories.
Rather than presenting a black-and-white story with clear villains and protagonists, "Pretty Girls" exists in the gray zones.
The female protagonists tend to be either victims or unhinged (especially when on their periods, as in Thomas Pluck's story).
Like the protagonists in novels by Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy, whose writing Laing's can resemble, Kathy is drawn south.
Their group dynamic is less that of a touring band and more that of the protagonists in The Good Place.
It is an unusually brutal story, containing accounts of child abandonment, cannibalism and the unexplained death of the protagonists' mother.
This eight-part series, adapted from Tana French's Irish crime novels, wraps up after a turbulent ride for our protagonists.
Unlike his shorts, in which protagonists including Hopinka's language teacher and father, appear briefly, małni is a sustained documentary portrait.
CW adds a comic-book crime fighter and an iconic mystery-novel detective to its deep roster of female protagonists.
And to have so many female protagonists [with Angelina Jolie as Thena in "The Eternals"] is also really, really exciting.
What made this conversation particularly interesting was the authenticity displayed by the two protagonists, particularly around the topic of #CancelCutlure.
" Barr adds: "It's also special to me because the protagonists are the two best big wall climbers in the world.
In Your Name the protagonists are separated not only in space but also time, by a period of three years.
Guillory, whose protagonists are all black women, has diversified a genre that featured mostly white characters for far too long.
You see his protagonists in three dimensions — deeply likable, but also flawed, just like most of your friends and family.
Protagonists Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) take turns summing up character traits they hold dear about each other.
So at the age of 11, she launched the campaign #1000BlackGirlBooks to identify books featuring people of color as protagonists.
It could even ask us to evaluate how much sympathy we extend to protagonists — and who gets to be one.
Writing with the assurance and wry omniscience of an easygoing deity, Makumbi watches her protagonists live out invariably provisional answers.
Featuring strong female protagonists is a priority for the festival, in which about half the filmmakers this year are women.
"Paddleton" is so keyed into its protagonists' various idiosyncrasies that it seems hesitant to grapple with its own central tension.
If there is sympathy in Ms. Ward's book for her protagonists, it is found in explaining how they grew up.
The protagonists are a group of young firebrands that were drawn together for their love of art, politics, and revolution.
Children's Books It's almost too easy to write children's books in which cats and dogs are the heroes and protagonists.
And Gen, the brilliant thief who is our hero, is one of the more likable protagonists you'll ever come across.
Species's protagonists are a motley crew recruited by the US government to hunt down its secret alien experiment gone wrong.
When the sorts of prestige TV shows and movies celebrated in our culture are, 99 times out of 100, stories of white male protagonists and accumulation, rather than stories of more varied protagonists and connection, it's no great effort to see how they might set us on a path toward living those same stories ourselves.
The protagonists quickly learn who they are, and find out their past identities have left them in some serious hot water.
And as other studies have noted, when a woman is behind the camera, the number of female protagonists goes up dramatically.
If anyone knows that it's Samuel, one of the protagonists from Hannah Tinti's new novel The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley.
Viewers miss out on competition that is full of stories, talent and, once you familiarise yourself with the protagonists, intriguing rivalries.
The ability to outsmart foes and beat overwhelming odds is something that all my favorite young adult protagonists seem to possess.
Is Call Me By Your Name's queer coming-of-age love story still radical if its protagonists are beautiful white men?
There's a mountain of unchecked privilege that one must ignored in order to focus on the burgeoning love between the protagonists.
A brief flash-foward scene shows older versions of the game's protagonists battling an unidentified enemy in a burning throne room.
Unlike the inevitable (and inevitably adorable) first encounter between protagonists in a romcom, there's no guarantee of a geothermal meet cute.
Additionally, the number of female protagonists with speaking roles in top films actually dropped in 2017 compared to the previous year.
Like normal New Yorkers, once our protagonists are on the subway, they see no reason to continue talking to each other.
The film's two protagonists embody different kinds of Japanese youth street culture: the "Yanki" delinquent Ichigo and the Sweet Lolita Momoko.
They're eternal, as long as their protagonists provide a steady stream of content and mutual affirmation to growing groups of supporters.
The newest entry in the series is XX, a quartet of horror shorts made by female directors, all featuring female protagonists.
"Loads of protagonists in books like that were a bit of a mess when it came to their finances," Gannon says.
To merit the label, the protagonists must be willing to use violence and any other means necessary to achieve their ends.
Were there any people you encountered in the course of reporting and researching, aside from the actual protagonists, that stood out?
Endgame's tone is mostly deeply somber — even when the protagonists formulate a plan and start taking steps, they're grim and angry.
As others have pointed out, Marvel's fictional protagonists, including the nonwhite and LGBTQ characters, are still predominantly written by white men.
The four protagonists are women in their 70s who are stuck in personal and professional ruts, variously bereaved, lonely or regretful.
But killing off apparent protagonists — Ned Stark, Robb Stark, Stannis Baratheon — is a signature of A Song of Ice and Fire.
It helps balance out the story when the protagonists and antagonists (especially Campbell, ugh) bog the show down with their extremes.
Before Jeffrey Dean Morgan was Negan on The Walking Dead, he played John Winchester, the father of the protagonists on Supernatural.
A Simple Favor could be playing with a similar dynamic, seeing as the protagonists reportedly share a kiss in the film.
Its three protagonists were kindergarteners by day, and superheroes charged with protecting their beloved Townsville at night (but not after bedtime).
But we have protagonists who journey and embark on quests, encountering new allies, villains, magical creatures and landscapes along the way.
But among other things, yellow is often associated with being active, warm and energetic, as most cartoon protagonists tend to be.
It's a nice way of showing the tragedy of the situation while also providing a contrast with protagonists' paranoia and hostility.
These stories are problematic for a number of reasons and not just because they are almost entirely devoid of female protagonists.
Even the best of the genre, like "The Last of the Mohicans" (1992) and "The New World" (2005), have white protagonists.
The supernatural investigators are the protagonists of The Conjuring movies which are at the core of the franchise that introduced Annabelle.
In part, this may be because, lamentably, there were no American or English protagonists who were deeply embedded with the anarchists.
They can choose to euthanize one of the main protagonists, putting them out of their misery, or they can move forward.
These people, who in the mass media blur into a "swarm" or a "flood", are here individuals, protagonists of their story.
Two seasons and 17 episodes in, we're still not quite sure what the ubiquitous shadow realm haunting our protagonists even is.
Eighth graders are dutifully portrayed with a kind of intimidation and edge, despite being only a year older than our protagonists.
The protagonists may fuck or booze or laze their way through tightly choreographed plots, but they never quite dance into fulfillment.
And that his own alienation (that state of mind shared by so many DeLillo protagonists) has roots in this Oedipal conflict.
It can't be meaningless that Tuan once again, in "Immersion," begged for time and attention that our protagonists simply don't have.
The reasons are varied, from nominee qualifications to parochial and policy concerns and the protagonists have been as diverse as Sens.
The protagonists not only play by the rules, but think deeply upon them, living on the line between despair and control.
The movie's structure probably does not require that the man experience sexual violence, as if often requires of its women protagonists.
Everyone's a critic now, with social media and blogging dominating the music journalism space, so perhaps our protagonists would be obsolete.
Diversity on TV is generally discussed in terms of racial diversity, LGBTQ representation, and stories with women protagonists rather than men.
But the visual contrast between the flat characters and richly textured backgrounds illustrates how the protagonists live separately from this illusion.
Our protagonists, a punk with an infamous dad, and a veteran with severe PTSD, also have hidden powers unlocked with codewords.
His well-intentioned interventionists in foreign lands often turn out to be ambivalent fumblers in the manner of Graham Greene's protagonists.
BoJack ranks among television's new class of sub-anti-heroes, protagonists so bad that we don't even root for them, exactly.
And each of their female protagonists has her own strength — strength that in some cases changes the men in their lives.
The protagonists' second stop on their journey is a planet in Orion's Belt, home to a seer named the Happy Medium.
Women made up fewer than a third of protagonists and directed fewer than 0003 percent of the top films in 2018.
The possibilities are endless because you can break all the "rules" of the show without obscuring or sacrificing the indelible protagonists.
For the makers of "Babylon Berlin," it was crucial that the audience experience the past through the eyes of the protagonists.
The protagonists are queer but the story isn't about being queer because to me, queerness isn't interesting; it's an old story.
Like Uchoa and Dumans, Esparza uses voiceover sparingly yet forcefully, to strengthen our sense of the protagonists' inner thoughts, particularly Regina's.
"We want to show people just how far ahead of their time Vienna and its protagonists really were," Mr. Kettner said.
In both tales, the two protagonists share the same itch to be elsewhere, seeking respite and freedom away from the crowd.
And still, there's an effervescent joy to this movie that continues to feel fresh and unexpected in films about women protagonists.
It's when the two protagonists begin to drink together, do battle, and even slow-dance that the story tilts and sways.
The refusal to elevate and celebrate protagonists of every kind and color-- especially young girls -- is one of Hollywood's greatest failures.
According to the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media's newly released report, in 2018 children's television featured predominately white protagonists.
My thought processes might have shut down, but the protagonists of the stories I was writing kept taking up strange challenges.
He drew Disney princesses, anthropomorphized ponies, superheroes, video-game protagonists, and cartoon versions of celebrities in endless combinations of graphic congress.
The only person who seems to be having fun is Pankaj Tripathi, who plays Pandit, an acquaintance of the four protagonists.
As previous studies have found, when women served as directors or writers, women were the protagonists 57 percent of the time.
Both are satires featuring underemployed, middle-aged New York Jewish protagonists with abandoned artistic dreams, cheating wives and snack-food obsessions.
Her protagonists have gained weight and substance, and appear to be isolated in bleak empty spaces that feel mythic or postapocalyptic.
Like its protagonists, it's far from perfect, and arguably not trying to be — it's just trying to have a good time.
Since the early 2000s, the Oscars have slowly been nominating fewer and fewer films with female protagonists, seemingly with every year.
Constantly firing from her arsenal of digital tricks, Bennani never loses sight of the humble off-stage lives of her protagonists.
These two protagonists, there aren't like A, B, and C stories the way there are, I guess, in lots of shows.
Michel Houellebecq's resolutely misogynistic, often middle-aged, often self-hating male protagonists show an understanding of the insidiousness of this dynamic: Houellebecq's protagonists tend to claim that they are powerless—and that power resides with the giver (the person who administers pleasure)—while Houellebecq carefully leads the reader to see that the reality is likely otherwise.
Elliot could have easily been one of the more annoying and confusing protagonists on TV right now if Malek weren't playing him.
Having a movie that pushes those boundaries, having more characters like this that aren't necessarily — that are atypical female protagonists, is important.
When we meet Maya and Anna, the protagonists of the new Hulu series PEN15, they're anticipating the best year of their lives.
The book is an examination of the comic book industry as the protagonists travel across the country on the comic con circuit.
But in each of these generally good seasons, the episodes that stray away from focusing on those protagonists stand out the most.
New adult books are for the protagonists fresh out of high school and ready for fun sex lives and nourishing romantic relationships!
But in doing so, one senator accused its protagonists of being a "party of lesbians" that violates the rights of the family.
The LME "Street", however, knows a battle when it sees one, even if the protagonists are obscured by the fog of war.
Called the "Tethered" ones, these haunting characters donned matching red jumpsuits, fingerless brown leather gloves and sandals to take on the protagonists.
Orthwein and Sullivan reveal virtually nothing about their protagonists' former lives, and they're both simply drawn characters without a lot of nuance.
Community readings engage participants on a visceral level as they speak the actual words of the protagonists, the bystanders, and the victims.
The vulgarity that laces the language of It's young protagonists is both comic relief and a reflection of the trauma they're enduring.
Technology isn't any more help to the story's protagonists now than it was for the start of the film ten years ago.
If you look at the entire body of work, you'll see all my protagonists have such an ambivalence towards love and heartbreak.
We sat down with al-Mansour to talk Mary Shelley, fierce protagonists, and the challenges of shooting a movie in Saudi Arabia.
"A Quiet Place" featured bloodthirsty monsters, but they forced the protagonists to question how far they would go to protect their children.
A powerful being the protagonists dubbed the Red Angel also appeared alongside these signals, but its nature and its intentions were unclear.
Customers who purchased one of the Diversity Editions titles would receive a book cover featuring an artist's rendering of the nonwhite protagonists.
They're not often given the space to be full, complex, messy, sad, free, pain-inflicting people and protagonists at the same time.
His character, who serves as a mentor and guide to the protagonists, has drawn a great deal of speculation from series fans.
These movies inflict brutal sexual violence on their protagonists and use rape as character development, reflecting a seriously misguided conception of empowerment.
Both worlds are colorful and lovely and enhance the protagonists' desire to fling themselves into the unknown in order to find love.
What this means for future trials in Gray's death The prosecution painted Goodson as one of the worst protagonists in Gray's death.
"These three look like the protagonists of an Italian comedy," says Nocerino of some of the associates of Regianni who were involved.
It's a refreshing change of pace, and not just because it shifts the focus away from the protagonists after three straight episodes.
Mr Moro and Mr Dallagnol were central protagonists of Lava Jato, in which some 200 businessmen, officials and politicians have been convicted.
Rey, one of the blockbuster film's protagonists played by Daisy Ridley, is not included in the new Star Wars edition of Monopoly.
It is not for nothing that the most beloved protagonists tend to be outsiders and losers, or bigshots who fall from grace.
The protagonists of "You're the Worst" meet outside a wedding from which one has been evicted and the other is stealing gifts.
The hyper-illuminated minds of his protagonists and the wars they fight, often with themselves, disguise the ingenious artistry of his work.
Without that fundamental dramatic structure, the protagonists would have no agon, no heroic struggle, and there would be no story to tell.
Even Marvel's Luke Cage, which features a black hero and mostly black protagonists, is leery about directly pitting its hero against police.
Modern American teenagers probably shouldn't be such outsize protagonists yet that doesn't prevent pop culture from mining the idea of propulsive pubescents.
The protagonists have been left behind following a collision that damaged their ship and let something on board that started killing people.
The number of female protagonists has basically remained stagnant since 2015, actually decreasing in 2017 from 2016's 34% down to 33%.
The three protagonists in NDiaye's previous book, Three Strong Woman, seemed to have been transformed into birds as a form of escape.
Mr. Penhall has a few close collaborations of his own — though none that have soured as starkly as those of his protagonists.
Why did you decide to end the film before a sham marriage, before either of your protagonists had found their fake love?
A rare female voice in the New Wave movement, Varda's works are often considered feminist because of her use of female protagonists.
The shift first became noticeable with Frozen, which for the first time ended with strong female protagonists choosing each other over love.
Ultimately it's a video that's hard to take your eyes away from, watching on and pondering the backstory beyond its two protagonists.
And this time, the protagonists aren't virtual strangers — they're longtime friends whose relationship crumbles spectacularly during a weekend getaway at Big Sur.
They let their protagonists escape the long national funk that's become as standard-issue for heroes as leather costumes and big explosions.
When it's working, Masters of Sex nicely captures the gap between sex and true intimacy, especially in the lives of its protagonists.
Much like the protagonists of Katanagatari or any other good story with swords, we ended up learning more than we ever expected.
The films shared the same plot, mixing love and intrigue, but varied on how the protagonists dealt with the issue of cutting.
This issue picks up right in the middle of the action, with the protagonists' ship about to plunge into a black hole.
And, fantastically, the protagonists of the game defeat the annihilation of all life by entering into a strategic alliance with their planet.
As with the protagonists who stop their heartbeats and hope to be revived before serious brain damage occurs, every minute will count.
Doubtless, it's a great thing to have more protagonists of color, and DuVernay has achieved much in her casting and her innovations.
They featured universal adolescent themes, like alienation and a hunger for acceptance, and thrust protagonists into chilling situations, often with supernatural elements.
Every battle is a unique story where two protagonists seek to destroy each other, but the underlying logic feels beautiful and true.
His protagonists are bound by the need to get somewhere, drive, escape toward what's next, but none are likely to find home.
Inside these disparate but meticulously constructed worlds, Kubrick's slightly malicious intelligence determined the outcomes of every apparently free choice his protagonists made.
Kechiche reportedly bullied the two female protagonists as well as his staff, forcing them to work 16-hour workdays under extreme pressure.
This is partly a matter of gender: office fiction about women tends to show its protagonists buckling under a balancing act, alone.
Set against Mr. Villeneuve's body of work, though, these three films are anomalies, for the simple fact that their protagonists are men.
The criticism extends to the world of sci-fi film and literature, where black protagonists have historically been few and far between.
In Excuse Me Ma'am, Benning's protagonists are often wearing bikinis or futuristic suits, ensembles a child may envision for a super hero.
The protagonists are Ezram and Callum, the young son and stepson of a king, and Rayla, an elf sent to assassinate him.
But such an assumption would have to overlook what remains one of the most complex—and compelling—protagonists on-screen this year.
Michael Bisping, one of the key protagonists on Saturday night's bumper UFC card in London, was long considered to be that man.
Arkane gave us not one, but two games with queer women of color protagonists, in Prey and Dishonored: Death of the Outsider.
The protagonists all suffer from economic frustration, allured by the promises of capitalists and spending money on things like failed plastic surgeries.
Inspired by Stephen Conroy, with his stark backgrounds and solitary protagonists, Reeder saves the bright solid colors for his emotionless characters' environments.
What remains, in "After the Wedding," is a kind of gulping embarrassment, as the protagonists try to reckon with the big reveal.
But the protagonists aren't supposed to be states (or at least not members of the Atlantic club) but businesses, investors and workers.
Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper, who play the film's two protagonists, have electric onscreen chemistry, and they turn in fine-tuned performances.
While maintaining the core elements of the source material, such as anthropomorphic animal protagonists, he restaged the stories within the contemporary framework.
I do think "Legion" shifted its focus — I hope successfully — so that it changes who we think of as the show's protagonists.
The sequel to "Wreck-It Ralph" sends its protagonists out into the web, where they discover all sorts of terrible online behavior.
Nadia and Saeed, two of the book's protagonists, meet in an evening class in the unnamed, majority-Muslim city they call home.
"To Calais…" is the story of three very different protagonists, each setting out for English-held Calais in the summer of 1348.
In fact it's really only because he focuses his tales on young protagonists that his books are marked as intended for children.
Disability is always seen as a misfortune, and disabled characters are simply opportunities to demonstrate the kindness of the able-bodied protagonists.
As Hopinka tells it, two protagonists, Lilu and T'alap'as (Chinuk for wolf and coyote, respectively), debate whether there should be an afterlife.
But both are preoccupied with crises, with protagonists trying to write their own histories in the midst of events bigger than themselves.
Russians are cool as villains again, which is convenient for Infinity Ward, and now, at least, one of the protagonists is brown.
Fragrance campaigns, and the protagonists in them, are often just one Vespa ride away from being the plot of a blockbuster romance.
While this information will be helpful to the protagonists, don't forget that there's a spy in their midst — Dante the undercover Whisperer.
But when you're not inhabiting these cheerfully rendered protagonists, they're off causing their own havoc as they independently navigate Wattam's floating environments.
There's no need for this character to be laden with the same Dead Wife trope that plagues male protagonists everywhere, but alas.
Pen is an inspiration to anyone who's struggled to be understood, and a vital addition to the growing world of genderqueer protagonists.
The actors bringing our two protagonists to life are Daisy Edgar-Jones (War of the Worlds, Cold Feet) and newcomer Paul Mescal.
Its protagonists are determined to defeat the First Order, but after their earlier bitter defeats, they're aware that heroes don't always triumph.
What keeps me wanting to write is wanting to fill out the self and show all of these different protagonists are me.
Though their marriage is at the center of the narrative, Zaida and Raphayet are not quite the protagonists of their own lives.
" One might think, at first, that its tales are about unrelated people, but "standing overhead with outstretched limbs are the real protagonists.
Despite their best efforts, the protagonists can't stay quiet because the blind man's house is a minefield of clattering junk and decay.
By the virtue of how stories work, they require protagonists and supporting players who won't be as well-developed as the protagonist.
In the end, the protagonists, Katniss and Peeta, don't win because they're stronger or more virtuous or more deserving than anyone else.
Shows had killed off their protagonists before, but usually after contract disputes or in the series finale — not in season one, episode nine.
They will try to secure testimony from Mueller and key protagonists in the special counsel's report like former White House counsel Don McGahn.
The movie does an incredible job of establishing empathy for its canine protagonists, while failing to extend that empathy to its Japanese characters.
This is Brinkley's first collection, and if his talent for exacting vivisection of his protagonists continues, he'll be a talent to reckon with.
But they give the city of Los Angeles a sense of personality and particularity, and they do the same for the two protagonists.
Like many segments on The Man Show, this one imagines its protagonists engaged in a heroic battle against a particularly nefarious foe: feminists.
What's more, Loudmouthed white guys threatened by change aren't unusual TV protagonists, either for comedies set in the '70s or for animated sitcoms.
The protagonists in Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist have linked up to, as the title suggests, defend New York City.
The rest of the film, which is nearly two and a half hours long, plays out like a corporate drama with dual protagonists.
So our two delightfully repellant "protagonists" decide to kill, hack up, and bake their enemies (and also just random strangers) into meat pies.
I imagine there are myriad protagonists to be identified and that an infinite number of narratives could be woven from the found images.
But unlike other recent dark comedy protagonists, BoJack craves deeper happiness, and he seems to know that finding it will be hard work.
The shows suggested, always, that even if their protagonists didn't get their comeuppance onscreen, it was coming, unless they could change their ways.
But no one else has enough development or agency to make their scenes feel worthwhile unless they're playing off one of the protagonists.
Both films acknowledge the protagonists' confusion and frustration, and explore the way different groups enforce their stereotypes and resist any attempts at individuality.
So on that point, I definitely agree, despite these two films being very, very different, the protagonists are working toward the same end.
Adi: I totally agree with this — I usually don't want protagonists to come back for another round in anything that's relatively story-focused.
The comment also highlights the way teen rom-coms idealize their male protagonists, and have spoken to the teen girl (and gay) gaze.
For starters, it may afford the cast greater freedom: They bring a sense of individual spontaneity to the protagonists' inner lives and contradictions.
Bloody Days is a violent top-down action game based around a series of heist missions, starring the film's six color-coded protagonists.
Teachers report that pupils enter into the experience of a case's protagonists, often becoming ardent about what they believe the government should do.
Today, terrorists bypass traditional media entirely and they now act simultaneously as the protagonists, producers and propagators of their acts of nihilistic violence.
But it focuses more intensely on the everyday, with larger events only breaking into the protagonists' lives when they reach a boiling point.
Of course, the protagonists at the end of the classic murder mystery just swap out the butler for a new, less murderous one.
Horror is most unsettling when it invites audiences to imagine danger in safe places, particularly the home, and so mothers make ideal protagonists.
And on the flip side, if we have to wait too long to find out what is haunting our protagonists, we lose interest.
But like most teenagers, the protagonists are all processing their problems as questions about their own identities and their place in the world.
A few of the scenes that different protagonists share with each other, for instance, change script or location depending on who you're playing.
Classics like 1960's Psycho, 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, or 1980's The Shining dropped the protagonists at remote houses.
She was constantly scouring the library for books that showed people with all different stories and had fierce women and girls as protagonists.
But only 24 percent of protagonists in the year's 100 highest-grossing films were women — an overall drop of 5 percent from 20183.
The poise of Elle Márjá Eira's protagonists contrasts with Mai-Lis Eira's film, to suggest the struggle continues, and there is unfinished business.
As characters navigate the '70s punk scene, music both drives the book's protagonists and enriches the world of City on Fire — sometimes literally.
Ironically, it's done so while being a show that is at least nominally about antiheroes (its protagonists are, after all, all in prison).
It helped that the Duffers locked into the lost possibility of regular-person protagonists, a bygone notion in our era of Chosen Ones.
Look at the other antihero dramas that Gypsy cribs from, and they almost immediately started unraveling the psychological knots at the protagonists' cores.
Per Hulu's season summary, the surprising consequences following Charles' death propel our three protagonists to rebel, exploring different jobs, partners, and unfulfilled passions.
Díaz's protagonists, in works like This Is How You Lose Her and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, tend to be womanizers.
Look, for instance, at another classic kids' tale that tackles issues of prejudice via animal protagonists: the talking pig book turned movie Babe.
Let me just set the scene: Valerian ostensibly has two protagonists: the eponymous government agent (Dane Dehaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne), his partner.
His neurotic, fussy protagonists — the ones he so often used to play himself — eternally play out his concerns about depression, dissatisfaction, and death.
Besides creating page-turning narrative tension between the two protagonists, Jay's skepticism raises a question: What good are classics to a modern life?
The tone varies wildly where the first half seems amateurish, much like the protagonists, and the second-half brings gravitas to the proceedings.
There were limitations, as well: Because the target audience was domestic, that meant most of its characters — in particular its protagonists — were too.
Mohamed Khan, one of Egypt's leading directors, whose films focused on social ills and often featured feminist protagonists, died on Tuesday in Cairo.
The film takes a respectful and expansive look at the Mexican countryside and culture while also exploring the burgeoning sexualities of its protagonists. 
The consequence of such a conflict would be damaging not only to the two protagonists, but also to the rest of the world.
Doing justice to four separate story threads in under 200 pages is a tall task, and fewer protagonists would have allowed more depth.
It is also the job of the editor to keep the narrative flowing smoothly whilst also highlighting the best performance of the protagonists.
The series, along with pushing four awesome female protagonists, also won a GLAAD Media Award last year for its depiction of LGBT characters.
Though the gaming industry has begun to integrate more queer female characters as viable protagonists, they often come off as a little… samey.
Through the diverse backgrounds of multiple protagonists we witness lives that, in reality, go otherwise unnoticed by many in a country undergoing transition.
But my main fear was that his storytelling, and the reception to it, redeemed his protagonists' pursuit of individualism instead of damning it.
She has written and published eight romance novels, all featuring protagonists who are people of color, under the nom de plume Selena Montgomery.
These books featured feisty white protagonists in urban or suburban settings, inventively solving problems by applying kid logic with hilarious and poignant results.
He focuses our attention on the characters who surround Shakespeare's protagonists, such as Petruchio and Rosalyn, neither of whom appear in the play.
You had to be constantly connected; we had two camera units and we had to stay connected to the protagonists we were following.
Consider the number of children's books, films and TV shows in which tomboys are protagonists, while feminine boys and girls are problematic characters.
We see three protagonists move through vignettes of alienation, abuse, and homophobic harassment, but ultimately emerge to assert their own agency and voice.
But she also was, like many of tennis's most compelling protagonists, a perfectionist in a sport where perfection is unfortunately not an option.
Ashley Stoney, who writes for Romper, a website for millennial parents, provides her daughter Ava, 3, with books that have black girl protagonists.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and The Secret Garden got at least three different covers, featuring their protagonists in various hairstyles and complexions.
Legitimate movies are about complicated protagonists who combine good and bad qualities; superhero movies are about two guys, one good and one evil.
Her protagonists were typically young women who spurned their mothers' examples of domesticity, enjoyed professional careers and led transgressive lives in secular Manhattan.
I also think that the whole premise of the show, even from the very beginning, was that there were protagonists who were unreliable.
Eubank creates an instantly tense atmosphere, relying on shadows and creaks for horror that makes the audience feel as claustrophobic as the protagonists.
They often function as the alter egos of her fragile, insecure protagonists, representing the boldness and the freedom that they can never achieve.
As in fairy tales, the child protagonists are put in terrible danger in order to be saved before they come to real harm.
That said, they all do the same basic thing in response to Charlottesville: They frame the fascists as the protagonists of the story.
His gangly-limbed character, outfitted in red, blue, and latticed webbing, founded the design of one of the comic world's most beloved protagonists.
"They got to be up close and personal with really two of the protagonists in the biggest doping scandal in history," he said.
They can be action-driving side characters like Sully from the Uncharted series, or morally-suspect protagonists like Booker DeWitt from Bioshock Infinite.
The child protagonists in both Stand By Me and It are outcasts and nerds, largely ignored and forced to find comfort in each other.
And yet, it's followed by a genuinely moving and intimate moment between the star-crossed protagonists that evokes a similar scene from The Notebook.
Knock Down the House is at its best when it unflinchingly offers a snapshot of the vulnerabilities of its protagonists and their accompanying challenges.
The videos prompt you to make decisions for the protagonists, or, alternatively, switch your perspective in order to listen to different characters' inner monologues.
It's become a catchall for protagonists whose flaws are too deep, dark, and numerous to be dismissed as quirky, suggesting a resistance to complexity.
The Geneva talks were supposed to usher in a transition from proximity contact -- parties meeting in separate rooms -- to protagonists meeting face to face.
Sisters Cassandra (Legion's Rachel Keller), WHHS' know-it-all star, and Allie (a hard-working Newton), an abiding second-in-command, are our protagonists.
Men like Walter White and Frank Underwood get to play bad guy protagonists without the burden of representing something larger about their entire gender.
Written by male screenwriter J. F. Lawton, the film was famously originally titled 3,000, a reference to the money exchanged between the two protagonists.
On the one hand, female-led projects have had a banner year: the top three highest-grossing domestic films of 2017 had women protagonists.
Roanhorse's novel tips the balance back in her own court: indigenous culture and people don't take a backseat to the stories of white protagonists.
Like Kathleen with Pride & Prejudice, I too am always in agony over whether or not the two protagonists will get together in the end.
While A Quiet Place's protagonists existed using their sight, not sound, Bird Box flips that on its head and delivers an equally impossible journey.
Horror protagonists are often unlikeable, at least in the kinds of stories where viewers are meant to find their deaths more exciting than tragic.
Like many protagonists in young adult novels, Eleanor is a teenager who's desperate to be an adult so she can escape her awful circumstances.
Though it can be contrived, Grown-ish offers its disparate protagonists some much needed common ground in a time when that can seem scarce.
Von Trotta's own presence during the interviews is low-key, allowing her protagonists to do most of the speaking, and adding pointed personal comments.
The film scholar Ben Singer estimates that between 1912 and 1920, about 60 action serials with female protagonists were released, totaling around 800 episodes.
Simsion's unlikely hero, Don Tillman, reminded me of the comic charms of two other protagonists whose insistent voices slip easily into the reader's consciousness.
It was one of the first cartoons where characters grew older and changed their appearance, following its protagonists from middle school to high school.
It divides players into a team of protagonists, each controlling a single marine, and an Invader adversary in command of a host of demons.
Maniac works because, one way or another, we've witnessed our protagonists battle something really scary and come out the other side better for it.
Before The Dreaming, Kate was presented as the idyllic English rose, an image of purity and meekness fit for one of Jane Austen's protagonists.
After all, part of what made Jessica Jones and Luke Cage stand out were the distinct identities and concerns their protagonists carried into battle.
So what are we supposed to do with all the gruff, good-looking dudes who make up the majority of game protagonists and characters?
Its protagonists have witnessed the deaths of husbands and children and been forced to leave their homes, and must now watch their city burn.
Some of this was just that the season didn't have a great idea for what to do with Rachel and Quinn, the ostensible protagonists.
And both protagonists turn to the Girl Scouts (or at least a non-copyright-infringing Girl Scouts-esque organization) in order to redeem themselves.
It uses its protagonists' natures to explore humanity: One is a golem, created to serve people, but left without a master and a purpose.
The production rests on heavily processed guitar strums, evoking the unsettled warmth of the Los Angeles afternoon the song's various protagonists are experiencing together.
Hamid stays with his protagonists like a spirit looking over their shoulders: The voice is sensitive, tender, as if these characters really are beloved.
As the blog could have potentially been run by any one of the books' protagonists, everyone was Gossip Girl, but also no one was.
These three also raise an interesting question: how will audiences react when the women protagonists on screen refuse to behave as they're supposed to?
The actors do a swell job of making these big-picture low stakes seem the life or death propositions they are to the protagonists.
The plot has shades of Portal and The Prisoner, alternately following two protagonists through a secret underground research facility that operates above the law.
Even though censors carefully vetted his script, many fans of his work say his crooked protagonists are far more convincing than the good ones.
It also inscribes, in the novel's very form, Solstad's way of writing about people who are not quite the protagonists of their own lives.
This can seem facile for a show whose protagonists are so calculatingly layered; a sacrifice of anyone whose qualms might slow down the steamrollers.
The doomed youthful protagonists must make their way through Warsaw's labyrinthine sewer, which is a literal translation of the title and an existential statement.
"A Scandal in Paris" and "Lured" both feature protagonists who cross over from a particular unsavory milieu to become respectable enforcers of the law.
The fall colors and muted tones of the backdrops serve the colorful characters—and their respective dramas—of the game's young protagonists even better.
The protagonists of The Get Down spend as much time hanging out in St. Mary's Park as they do in the crew's monastic squat.
Ms. Clare's characters are tougher and wittier than the lugubrious Bella and Edward of "Twilight" fame, and her female protagonists are smart and sassy.
"Sweden will continue to do what it can, but it is the protagonists themselves who have to drive the process forward," the source said.
Protagonists like Mario, Master Chief, and Mega Man all exist as carefully rendered lines of code captured in time and tossed onto our monitors.
The topper features the protagonists from "The Nightmare Before Christmas," and it's both romantic and festive for Halloween, making it perfect for the event.
There are still recognizable game mechanics, but instead of being used to challenge a players skill level, they're used to communicate the protagonists' feelings.
Revisiting the episode may help rehabilitate the reputations of some of the protagonists, particularly Mr. Olmert, who resigned from office in 2008 in disgrace.
The majority of the protagonists in "Back Talk," Danielle Lazarin's debut story collection, seemingly heterosexual women and girls, are caught in this very quandary.
Above all, this kind of image produces and leaves behind empty spaces, by writing diverse groups and protagonists out of the mainstream collective memory.
American film in the '60s and '70s saw plenty of male protagonists in similar existential straights, and their actions were often defined by violence.
The film gets at these existential questions of life—and in the end, for all the protagonists, there was also a kind of catharsis.
The fact that serial-killer procedurals from "Manhunt" to "Mindhunter" have painted their protagonists by pretty much these exact same numbers doesn't help either.
"Tech companies are blind to this," says Brianna Wu, the co-founder of Giant Spacekat, a software company that makes games with female protagonists.
The action in "Candide" jerks us from Europe to the New World and back, as the protagonists spend much of their time in exile.
The two shows share plenty of DNA, most notably in their complicated flashback structures and their moony protagonists, perpetually in search of The One.
If some action movie protagonists are regular folks, whose prowess is enhanced by the unusual circumstances in which they find themselves, Wick is superhuman.
At first, the sight is bracing for the Hong maven: his pictures often feature writers as protagonists, but they're almost never shown actually writing.
In casting Cooley, Frazier and other artificial heart evangelists as her protagonists, she has readers follow them beating long odds and proving naysayers wrong.
Ephemeral tweet storms and voracious news cycles may cause us to forget that history judges its protagonists on what they contributed to their society.
The unrelenting problems of adulthood hang above protagonists Nessa and Demelza's adventures like the impending doom of a storm cloud that never goes away.

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