"And I said, 'Oh wow, I watched it at Christmas and absolutely loved it.' Subconsciously I must have taken in this supreme childlike character.
This is, of course, the first film featuring The Sorcerer Supreme, a character I know almost entirely from that Lionsgate animated DVD movie from August 2007.
As the infection spreads, fear and paranoia take hold, misinformation reigns supreme, and characters attempt to hold on in the face of an uncertain future.
Miller's character, supreme hacker Dade, who hacked 1,507 computers as an a11-year-old, is very similar to real life computer savants such as the teenage Raphael Gray and Jake Davis.
Robert McCrum, the literary editor of the Observer of London, has celebrated Pullman's "well-made, absorbing characters," "supreme elegance of style and tone," and dexterous handling of "very big ideas".
Many methods are derived from the "story" theory of Robert McKee, which preaches that "story is supreme" and "structure is character".
It was headed by a secluded supreme ruler of semireligious character called a khagan who wielded little real power and by tribal chieftains, each known as a beg.
Well hello Roger Ashton-Griffiths, British character actor supreme and hopefully a source of much amusement as the bumbling Mace Tyrell in weeks to come.
As Odette similar backbends are charged with a more personal sincerity: we feel the character's supreme need and fluctuations of hope and despair, never monotonously expressed but always moving on in the journey of the narrative.
But with several major European and Latin American releases in the coming months, a probable worldwide $50m or so testifies to his late-career status as character actor supreme and hipster cause celebre.
