Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Josh Glenn
Josh Glenn is a Boston- and Kingston (NY)-based consulting semiotician. He is cofounder of the consultancy Semiovox, editor of the websites SEMIOVOX and HILOBROW, and founding editor of The MIT Press's proto-sf RADIUM AGE series. He is an adjunct instructor at RISD and convenor of the monthly online Semiofest Sessions. His books include The Idler's Glossary, Significant Objects, and the family activities guide Unbored. In the ’90s, Josh published the intellectual zine/journal Hermenaut; in the 2000s, he was a founding staffer and columnist for the Boston Globe's IDEAS section.
Al Czervik
"I never saw dead people smoke before!"
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Ty Webb
"Stop thinking. Let things happen."
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Generation OK
“Don’t be fooled into thinking there has to be a reason for everything.”
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
Carl Spackler
“People say, you know, I’m an idiot or something."
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
We Are Iron Man
“Heavy boots of lead / Fills his victims full of dread."
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
The Sweetest Hangover
“If there’s a cure for this, I don’t want it!"
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.