Kinnear's character is also in conflict as he strives to break away from conformity, although his character has been changed significantly from that in the Women in Love novel.

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It also serves to break down prejudices, as if a main character was revealed later in a story to be a different race or sexual orientation, participants felt more positively toward that group afterward.

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And so it's just basically--"Eli The Barrow Boy, " the song, is just kind of a--it's just a tragedy of a very sort of sweet character, who just never really gets a break in life, I guess.

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Broadly speaking, when you break it down, screenwriting consists of three important parts: character development, dialogue, and structure.

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The film began production in early 1999 with scenes in Los Angeles and Moscow, but it had to take an eight-month break while Hanks lost more than 40 pounds to give his character a gaunt look when he returned to civilization.

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Playing seven roles in this antic yet sentimental comedy (which he also directed), Jerry Lewis makes the camera a prism to break out the divergent, and even conflicting, strands of his own character.

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On the open plains of Texas, I first learned the character of our country: sturdy and honest, and as hopeful as the break of day.

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