He was portrayed as a stylish, even foppish dandy, a New York bon vivant possessing a highly intellectual bent.

The Agrarians believed that Chinese society should be modeled around that of the early sage king Shen Nong, a folk hero which was portrayed in Chinese literature as " working in the fields, along with everyone else, and consulting with everyone else when any decision had to be reached.

Other authors had their own ideas: Robert de Boron portrayed it as the vessel of the Last Supper ; and Peredur had no Grail per se, presenting the hero instead with a platter containing his kinsman's bloody, severed head.

Revisionist histories written by John Foxe, William Tyndale and Robert Barnes portrayed John as an early Protestant hero, and John Foxe included the king in his Book of Martyrs.

The Jewish historian Artapanus of Alexandria ( 2nd century BCE ), portrayed Moses as a cultural hero, alien to the Pharaonic court.

The 1938 film, The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, portrayed Robin as a hero on a national scale, leading the oppressed Saxons in revolt against their Norman overlords while Richard the Lionheart fought in the Crusades ; this movie established itself so definitively that many studios resorted to movies about his son ( invented for that purpose ) rather than compete with the image of this one.

Like Carmilla this undead femme fatale is not portrayed in an entirely negative way and attempts, but fails, to save the hero Spalatro from the eternal damnation that seems to be his destiny.

The 1983 film Last Plane Out about journalist Jack Cox's experiences in Nicaragua portrayed the Sandanistas as crazed communist psychopaths while making Anastasio Somoza Debayle look like a sympathetic hero.

The 20th-century agnostic playwright Robert Bolt portrayed Thomas More as the tragic hero of his 1960 play A Man for All Seasons.

* A character named Balliol, portrayed by British actor Bernard Horsfall, appears in Mel Gibson's 1995 Oscar-winning epic, Braveheart, an heroic tale of Scottish national hero William Wallace.

Even the plantation owner who owns the hero is portrayed as a struggling — and failing — small businessman, whose main motivation is to secure a livelihood for his daughter.

In stark contrast to Kipling's later poem " The White Man's Burden ," Gunga Din is named after the native, and portrays the native Indian as the hero while the British soldiers are portrayed as callous and shallow, and ultimately inferior to Gunga Din.

He is the hero of one of the greatest works of Middle English literature, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, where he is portrayed as an excellent, but human, knight.

In the 19th century, liberals portrayed Fox as their hero, praising his courage, perseverance and eloquence.

The book referred to the name Pantera, or Pandera as the father of Jesus, and also portrayed Judas Iscariot as a hero.

He also portrayed Western folk hero Billy the Kid in 36 films, starred as Buck Rogers, and as a brother in his real-life fraternity in the musical The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi.

In Peking opera, Sun Ce's role is usually that of a hero or tragic hero, while his brother, Sun Quan is usually portrayed as a villain at worst or self-seeking at best.

Furthermore, Chamorro was portrayed as the mother figure, a hero, and a martyr whereas Ortega was depicted as a macho rooster.

In 1991, he starred in the pilot episode of Lookwell, in which he portrayed a has-been TV action hero who falsely believes he can solve mysteries in real life.

The boy hero is a comic book geek whose favorite superhero, Galloping Gazelle ( West's character ), is portrayed as fading and on the verge of retirement.

Edited to make Piglet the hero of the stories and to conform to the characters ' idiosyncrasies as Disney has portrayed them, they nevertheless retain much of Milne's original plot.

In his Life of Constantine Eusebius eliminated the role at Milan of Licinius, whom he portrayed as the evil foil to his hero Constantine.

He later used this transcript to educate and amuse his children, he being the hero, and the Bishop of London being portrayed as a buffoon.

The British press, however, portrayed Jameson as a hero in the middle of the disaster, and the actual defeat as a British victory.

The news media portrayed Sipple as a hero.

It also ties in with Milholland's interest in role-playing games, as the comic is portrayed as a game run by Pee-Jee, one of the SP cast members ; some of the characters in New Gold Dreams have the same appearance and personality as regular S * P characters.

The American Experience being a series showcasing documentaries on American history well portrayed the Life in Civilian Conservation Corps in Episode 1, Season 22.

She is, however, portrayed as being very hypocritical ; in The Invisible Man ( series 1 ), she has no issues with violating peoples ' privacy when she runs a story using a hidden camera to catch shoplifters in a store change room, but is outraged when a rival network violates her own privacy in the same way when broadcasting a similar story.

In addition, many scholars in support of this theory believe that there is content within 1 Peter that directly mirrors the situation as portrayed in Pliny ’ s letter.

Glyndŵr has remained a notable figure in the popular culture of both Wales and England, portrayed in William Shakespeare's play Henry IV, Part 1 ( anglicised as Owen Glendower ) as a wild and exotic man ruled by magic and emotion (" at my nativity, The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets, and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.

From 1981 to 1989, Robert the Bruce was portrayed on £ 1 notes issued by the Clydesdale Bank, one of the three Scottish banks with right to issue banknotes.

* Fox Mulder ( seasons 1 – 7, main ; season 8 – 9, intermittent ) – is portrayed by David Duchovny.

* Dana Scully ( seasons 1 – 9, main ) – is portrayed by Gillian Anderson.

* Walter Skinner ( seasons 1 – 8, recurring ; season 9, main ) – is portrayed by Mitch Pileggi.

* The Smoking Man ( seasons 1 – 7, 9, recurring ) – is portrayed by William B. Davis.

Robert Smith was also portrayed on an episode of South Park ( Season 1, Episode 12 ) where he transforms into the form of Mothra and battles Mecha-Streisand to save the day and Kyle shouts " Disintegration is the best album ever!

In Henry IV, Part 1 Percy is portrayed as the same age as his rival, Prince Hal, by whom he is slain in single combat.

Though he is commonly portrayed as ignorant in the show, Cartman does speak fluent Spanish in the episodes ' My future self ' n ' me ' and ' Pandemic part 1 '.

In the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, the character of 1 SSF First Lieutenant Aldo Raine, portrayed by Brad Pitt, is said to be a moonshiner from Maynardville.

In the 1920s there was no bridge spanning the watery expanse between San Francisco and Marin in California, so when the U. S. Post Office issued a postage stamp on May 1, 1923, celebrating The Golden Gate, the issue naturally portrayed the scene without a structure bridging the great span.

Porthos was portrayed by a female beagle named Prada in Season 1.

In 2003, Hannibal Lecter ( as portrayed by Hopkins ) was chosen by the American Film Institute as the # 1 movie villain.

Sylvia Jeanjacquot disliked the second production: she insisted that Jacques Mesrine was not as aggressive ( or paunchy ) as he was portrayed in L ' ennemi public No. 1.

Bernard is best known for his role in seasons 1 to 7 of the Fox show 24, where he portrayed Tony Almeida, a CTU ( Counter Terrorist Unit ) agent.

The king is portrayed with his right hand holding a sword, measuring approximately 9 metres in height from his horse's feet to the spire of his hat, rests on a reinforced concrete pedestal of 8. 90 x 1. 80 x 3. 90 metres.

Jadzia Dax, portrayed by Terry Farrell in the TV series, is a main character in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine seasons 1 to 6.

His conflict with Cardinal Beaufort is portrayed in Henry VI, Part 1 and his disgrace and death following his wife's alleged sorcery is depicted in Henry VI, part 2.

In seasons 1 and 2, MacGyver was portrayed living in a waterfront apartment in Venice Beach.

In both American comic and movie continuity, Pops is portrayed as having built a " Mach " Series consisting of other variants such as the Mach 4 and Mach 6 in addition to Rex Racer's Mach 1 and the Mach 5.

1 ," in which he portrayed marriage as " incompatible with social harmony and the root cause of mental and physical impairments.

" It is true that the moneylender Moses is portrayed in a comparatively positive light, but the way he is described ( as a " friendly Jew " and an " honest Israelite " by Rowley in III. 1 ) suggest that he is in some way to be considered an exception to Jews in general ; also, his own usurious business practices as stated to Sir Peter are clearly less than exemplary ( e. g., his statement " If he appears not very anxious for the supply, you should require only forty or fifty per cent ; but if you find him in great distress, and want the moneys very bad, you may ask double " ).