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...Stephen Lawrence; Pulp singer Jarvis Cocker (“Common People”); and whistleblower Edward Snowden (“liberty”) as “a portrait of the age”....
...The FT’s Danny Leigh review had plenty of jokes of its own and the Daily Mail ran a favourite old story trope: “Leonardo DiCaprio hopes new film Don’t Look Up will be a ‘wake-up call’ about climate change...
...The film-maker driven by the compulsion to make great art at the expense of everything and everyone else is a fictional trope rooted in numerous real-life examples....
...Jacob Lawrence looked to Orozco’s bold hues and architectonic forms for his epic of exodus, the “Migration Series”. The muralists’ heyday was steeped in ironies....
...Janan Ganesh’s romantic rehashing of the ancient trope of the creative genius from the stultifying small town or farm who just needs the bromide of the big city to spawn immortal works of art has not on...
...A-listers such as Natalie Portman, Toni Collette, Jennifer Lawrence and Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino have all recently tried horror and further raised its profile....
...He has invoked standard anti-Semitic tropes in his political advertising. And he has made clear that he believes grabbing and groping women is appropriate behaviour....
...Sexual tropes are commonplace in literary gardens, and at times they are comical....
...Against odds the film is sometimes funny, bandying its dated tropes like a badge of pride. There is much trouserless clambering by Firth inside and outside a posh London hotel....
...All of this is done at a high level of linguistic resourcefulness – and the scope is impressive too: 28 categories/tropes are examined, though, strangely, there is no discussion of that ecstatically redemptive...
...But the identifying trope - or more brutally the “cliche” - isn’t always easy to avoid. Never mind pleasing producers, the actor wants to connect with the spectators....
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