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Noel Chestnut, track team coach and prison guard portrayed in the 2008 film Racing for Time [11] Joe Louis Clark, high school principal credited with the turnaround of a troubled and dangerous New Jersey high school. Joe Clark was portrayed by Morgan Freeman in the 1990 film Lean on Me [12] Ron Clark, portrayed in the 2006 film The Ron Clark Story
The New Hollywood, Hollywood Renaissance, American New Wave, or New American Cinema (not to be confused with the New American Cinema of the 1960s that was part of avant-garde underground cinema), was a movement in American film history from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when a new generation of filmmakers came to prominence.
An unseen character in theatre, comics, film, or television, or silent character in radio or literature, is a character that is mentioned but not directly known to the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot. [1]
A character arc is the transformation or inner journey [1] of a character over the course of a story. If a story has a character arc, the character begins as one sort of person and gradually transforms into a different sort of person in response to changing developments in the story.
A notable example of subtractive retconning is the X-Men film series. After X-Men: The Last Stand faced criticism for abruptly killing off characters such as Cyclops and Jean Grey , its sequel, X-Men: Days of Future Past , features the character Wolverine traveling back in time to 1973 to prevent an assassination that, if carried out, would ...
In literature, internal analepsis is a flashback to an earlier point in the narrative; external analepsis is a flashback to a time before the narrative started. [4] In film, flashbacks depict the subjective experience of a character by showing a memory of a previous event and they are often used to "resolve an enigma". [5]
A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a generic type in a conventional, simplified manner and recurring in many fictional works. [1] The following list labels some of these stereotypes and provides examples. Some character archetypes, the more universal
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749) [2] The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759) [2] Candide, by Voltaire (1759) Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817) Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839) Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861)