In making a protagonist of Jiro Horikoshi, whose planes took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor and in kamikaze missions, Miyazaki is being targeted by unlikely political bedfellows at home and abroad.
Make a protagonist and an antagonist, and state their likes and dislikes, fears, and especially their history.
Knight makes a compelling protagonist - rebellious, straight-forward, salty - but she can never be quite as interesting as her creator.
Although staged as part of a "nations at war" season, it doesn't grow out of a particular context and, even if Jonjo O'Neill makes a vivacious protagonist, his Richard is too relentlessly engaging.
Alden Ehrenreich makes a fine protagonist, offering hints of the man Harrison Ford first played in 1977 but offering a star turn unique unto itself.
Renner makes a mediocre protagonist and he is left adrift by a screenplay that depends entirely on his charisma.
It remains to be seen if the younger Serkis has inherited his father's versatility, but here he makes a thoroughly engaging protagonist who matches the movie he's in: sweet but uncloying, brave and true, ridiculous and inspiring.
A shoo-in for his own film, the shiba inu would make a great protagonist.
Both shows suggest that the easiest way to make a female protagonist likable is to dumb her down with self-doubt.
In Waldman's novel, a female friend of the protagonist makes a persuasive argument: "Dating is probably the most fraught human interaction there is. . . .
