Most tellingly, this film showed you don't have to make your subject particularly likable.
But it suggests that aiming to make the subject more likable to a wider swath of students risks diluting the curriculum and dismissing the effort needed to excel.
This breezy biographical profile of Jane Goodall, the primatologist and "rock star" of conservationism, as one environmentalist introduces her, skimps on intellectual substance but skirts by on the lightly likable charm of its subject, who appears throughout.
Her family's knockabout tale was the subject of a likable Channel 4 documentary in 2012.
"Would all these girls," he asks, with a sorrow that defies any glib, one-should-be-so-lucky retort, "be fucking me if they weren't getting paid?" Not all Theroux's subjects are so likable.
It is a film to be compared with the likable British movie on the same subject: Afro-Saxons, by Mark Currie and Rachel Wang.
Then researchers had people from the public check out the participants' photos and rate them as to how attractive, likable, and narcissistic they thought each subject appeared.
If the filmmakers had wanted to make a documentary about dead-end lives, that would, it seems, have been easier and less affecting than "Rich Hill". Apart from Andrew, the movie's subjects aren't especially likable all the time.
An inveterate, unabashed enthusiast about many people and subjects, he was an engaging, likable person.
It must be considered a parenthesis, a bit of fun after two serious subjects … Looking for Eric is likable, full of the ineffable presence of Cantona.
