What's the point of the story?" He spent 2 1/2 years resisting young "Creed" writer-director Ryan Coogler's ("Fruitvale Station") idea for a "Rocky" revival, believing it was, in his words, "a surefire disaster".
There's disapproval too in Singin' in the Rain, with the policeman who moves Gene Kelly along, and in Baz Luhrmann's wonderful Strictly Ballroom, with the old guard who resist the young hero's new dance moves.
There's a gentrification plot here, too – Lillian's story mostly revolves around her attempt to resist the young, wealthy, callous people moving into their neighborhood.
In "The Necessity of Loss," for example, a man desperate to resist a young Lolita castrates himself and cuts off his limbs, only to see her sit on his face.
"Is what's manifesting as a fear actually some instinct to resist being young?" asks Dunham "Youth, with its accompanying risks, humiliations and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late.
Wellness bloggers are increasingly numerous, astonishingly popular and embarrassingly feted by the media which never can resist attractive young women (who make up the most prominent members of this demographic) talking about food and being photographed nibbling on a strawberry.
Can no one in TV resist pandering to younger viewers?
Shumkar also could not resist giving his younger brother some advice on child rearing.
So I'll probably spend much of my time just hanging out with them (and resisting my youngest child's entreaties to put up our Christmas tree early).
More likely, this is perhaps a way for Kim to consolidate his power within a large, inscrutable bureaucracy that's dominated by much older and more experience cadres who may have resisted the young upstart's leadership.
