Their battles with complex puzzles are presented in the same dramatic fashion as the fights and chases of the protagonists in action movies.
More than name alone, Tangled inserted an active male protagonist in an action-oriented storyline, far more so than Cinderella's more passive prince and action-less narrative.
Shorter shot durations can increase the exogenous control of eye position and eye movements; more motion attracts attention; and it seems likely that the cross-cutting of short scenes of the protagonist and antagonist in action films creates anxiety.
His was always the controlling intelligence, aggressively masculine, and he followed his young male protagonists less in thought than in action, detailing their psychosis and alienation with the cold detachment of a coroner examining a corpse.
Male protagonists were most likely to appear in action features (38%), followed by comedy (20%), animation (18%), drama (13%), horror (7%) and science fiction (4%).
To preserve his sanity against the formalized lunacy of the military mind in action, [the novel's protagonist] Yossarian had to turn madman.
As in earlier films by this director, there are crazed, voyeuristic scenes in which the protagonist watches action unfolding on a cinema screen, a home-entertainment system that is more torture than entertainment, but which holds him speechless, captivated by the obscene spectacle he himself has created.
News that Vikander would replace Angelina Jolie as the protagonist in the franchise surfaced last year, and now we finally have a look at her in action.
What Nafar does in real life, as an artist, coincides with the actions of his protagonist in the film: neither of them is protecting Palestinian girls from family terror in a patronizing way.
The true-ish story of Laura Guerrero, a beauty queen forcibly conscripted into collaboration with the La Estrella gang, was notable for its concentrations on fear and helplessness – two uncommon, unpredictable qualities in the protagonist of an action film.
