Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Movies
Semiotics in/of movies…
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.
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.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Judge Smails
"Some people simply do not belong."
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
Danny Noonan
"Yes, sir. I'm your pal."
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”