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But nowhere is the self-indulgent circling as pointed--or annoying--as in the image of Rahel, the girl-woman protagonist who is a dead ringer for Roy: "jeans and white T-shirt ...
That figure is the protagonist of the once-famous play, The Bedbug by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Russia's great futurist poet and Bolshevik propagandist.
Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman), the 15-year-old protagonist of Wes Anderson's well-reviewed comedy Rushmore , looks like Tom Cruise with his face pinched between a giant's thumb and forefinger so that his tiny eyes are squashed together and his big nose and teeth pop out.
Movies that revolve around moral choices often have an aura of sanctimoniousness built into them: The audience is presented with the issue in the starkest blacks and whites and waits for the blinkered protagonist to "do the right thing."
All at once, the movie becomes a "conversion" melodrama--the kind in which an amoral, Bogartish protagonist is unable to ignore injustice and so throws in his lot with the oppressed.