Sunday, July 31, 2011

the classic preadolescent boy’s fantasy

Sam Witwicky, the all-American kid played by Shia LaBeouf in Michael Bay’s “Transformers” movies:
"The fantasy he lives out is the classic preadolescent boy’s dream of defying adult wisdom, saving the princess and getting to make all the noise and mess he wants in the service of a noble cause."

Arts & Leisure
Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men
By A. O. SCOTT and MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: July 27, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/movies/male-archetypes
-in-the-movies-big-baby-to-brave-boy.html

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