Pixar has its first female protagonist coming up in Brave, and Disney has come up trumps with the unexpectedly wonderful Tangled.
With close-ups on mouthwatering dishes and wines alike, the protagonist ends up cooking in the Antarctic Research Station but her gastronomic skills together with her sensitive heart win the viewers over.
When the protagonist wakes up in the morning full of refreshed HP, the narrative picks up once again, generating new opportunities to share screenshots with friends and develop the narrative of the little robot boy.
The protagonist ends up looking at Scarlet Town down a telescope, from hell.
In Pinball, 1973, the same unnamed protagonist sets up a translation company, has sex with twins and becomes obsessed with playing pinball.
In fact their relationship seemed quite forced and was definitely a huge YA stereotype (the hot popular cheerleader protagonist ends up with the mysterious sarcastic leather clad stranger).
Or call it Groundhog Day, as some people here do, referring to the movie whose protagonist woke up to the same day over and over again.
"It was like a prophecy, an omen," Rick says of The Moment I Feared, in which the protagonist winds up in jail for life.
And here in the cemetery, which sounds suspiciously like Mr. Ollivander's wand shop from "Harry Potter," the boy protagonist picks up a forgotten book called... "The Shadow of the Wind".
* * * Many years ago, reading "Harriet the Spy" for what was probably the ninth or tenth time, I realized that both novels contain meaningful scenes in which the protagonist dresses up as a foodstuff.
