He also provided his son to star as the film's hero.

Upperstall. com praised Dixit's work " She made Beta her own film totally stealing a march over the film's hero, Anil Kapoor.

Scott cast Tom Cruise as the film's hero, Jack, Mia Sara as Princess Lili, and Tim Curry as the Satan-horned Lord of Darkness.

The contrast between film's depiction of Martin " as a family man and hero who single-handedly defeats countless hostile Brits " and the real-life Marion was one of the " egregious oversights " that TIME magazine cited when listing " The Patriot " as number one of its " Top 10 historically misleading films " in 2011.

* In the Disney animated film The Great Mouse Detective, the character Professor Ratigan ( the archnemesis of Basil of Baker Street, the film's Holmes-trained hero ) is an obvious parallel and tribute to the character of Moriarty.

The 1973 BBC documentary Omnibus: The British Hero featured Christopher Cazenove playing a number of such title characters ( e. g. Richard Hannay and Bulldog Drummond ), including James Bond in dramatised scenes from Goldfinger – notably featuring the hero being threatened with the novel's circular saw, rather than the film's laser beam – and Diamonds Are Forever.

" Michael Holden of The Guardian felt that he was " too much the hero " to fit the classic rebel archetype properly, but the film's shortcomings " don't lie with Farrell.

The film's theme clearly uses the figure of Yi, venerated as a hero in both parts of contemporary Korea, to plead for Korean reunification.

Hitchcock responded to the criticism by explaining that the film's moral was that the Allies needed to stop bickering and work together to win the war, and he defended the portrayal of the Nazi character, saying, " I always respect my villain, build him into a redoubtable character that will make my hero or thesis more admirable in defeating him or it.

It is also the setting of a scene in John Boorman's film Catch Us If You Can when the film's hero, pop star Dave Clark, encounters a group of sinister beatniks in a deserted village used as target practice by the British Army.

Jack Shaheen, a critic of Hollywood's portrayal of Arabs, believes that " the studio feared financial and possibly political hardships if they made the film's hero Arab ", and claimed that " If no attempt is made to challenge negative stereotypes about Arabs, the misperceptions continue.

However, the period of waiting is depicted in a lengthy ten-minute sequence, the train arrives several hours after noon, and its passenger is the film's hero ( Charles Bronson ) rather than its villain.

Although Allen's novel title and hero shared the same spelling of the name " Mackenna ," and the film's title according to the studio is " Mackenna's Gold ," Peck's character is listed in publicity materials as " MacKenna.

Starring opposite Mel Gibson as the film's hero, and Heath Ledger as Gibson's screen son, Isaacs portrays a sadistic British army officer who kills Ledger's character, among many other soldiers.

That film's hero was played by Bogart.

The tension between the conventional hero who is miniaturized and the " wimp " he is injected into helps produce the film's humor.

It may have been used to assist Edward in fleeing the village or to help film's hero, John Fulton, during his escape from prison or return to the village seeking a doctor.

* Upon first meeting serial killer Cary Stayner — then considered a possible material witness to a 1999 murder in Yosemite National Park — FBI Agent Jeff Rinek asked if Stayner had ever seen the movie Billy Jack, noting Stayner's close resemblance to the film's hero.

While some would see this as necessary, and good, others think the opposite, hence the film's opinions on large scale American marketing campaigns, such as Coca Cola's, are embodied in Joe's ambiguity as a character ... is he an all American hero, or just a shameless shill and coward?

The film's final segment is about Texas ' famous hero, he was raised by coyotes ( is simailar to Mowgli who by wolves in The Jungle Book ) the biggest and best cowboy that ever lived.

On arriving at work as the hero of Hum Ek Hain, he found the film's young choreographer ( Guru Dutt ) wearing his shirt.

More importantly, his presence as the lead character, along with trimming ( though not outright deletion ) of protracted dialogue regarding the arranged marriage between the Japanese heroine and a scientist ( a concept unfamiliar to Westerners ), scenes evincing an active affair between her and the young naval officer – hero ( a concept unlikely to be accepted by many parents of the film's youthful target audience ), and a raging debate in Japan's Diet over the U. S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and continued nuclear testing ( a concept not likely to be approved of by American veterans of the recent war ), served to ease American audiences into comfortable relationships with characters, whose mere nationality might otherwise have made them pariahs.

The film's success made Snipes a popular action hero icon.

Then, thanks to an affair with a white lady, guerrilla killer Ci ( Dina Sfat ), the film's hero fathers a black boy ( Grande Otelo ) with her.

She played a wisecracking showgirl who becomes a rival to the film's star, singer Belle Baker.

Doug Scott and Ellen Anthony, who played the younger Dahlberg children, were found in Lawrence ( Anthony was the daughter of the film's Kansas casting director Jack Wright ).

* Actor Milos Milos, the Serbian actor who played the Incubus, killed his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney – the estranged fifth wife of Mickey Rooney – and himself in 1966, nine months before the film's premiere.

In her role in I, A Man, she and the film's title character ( played by Tom Baker ) haggle in a building hallway over whether they should go into her apartment.

His theme song " Sweepin ' the Clouds Away " from the film Paramount on Parade ( 1930 ) was one of its theme songs and was played in the end credits of the film's second part.

In 1996, he had role in the Kurt Russell film Executive Decision, in which he played a special ops soldier who only appears in the film's first 45 minutes.

Curtis ' comedies include Some Like It Hot ( 1959 ), Sex and the Single Girl ( 1964 ) and The Great Race ( 1965 ), and his dramas included playing the slave Antoninus in Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus ( 1960 ) co-starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, The Outsider ( 1961 ), the true story of WW II veteran Ira Hayes, and The Boston Strangler ( 1968 ), in which he played the self-confessed murderer of the film's title, Albert DeSalvo.

The music played during the scene where Helena showers in a fountain, while a party crowd watches was originally scored by the film's composer, Graeme Revell, based on the " Love Theme " used sparsely elsewhere in the film, with vocals by Bobbi Page.

In the Super Mario Bros. film, his character was split into 2, the main villain played by the late Dennis Hopper called " King Koopa " who usurped the throne of the parallel-universe city of Dinohattan ( the film's version of the Mushroom Kingdom ) from the rightful " King Bowser " ( played by Lance Henriksen ) who he devolved into fungus for most of the film.

The song is played over the end credits of the film and appears on the film's soundtrack album.

The year after the film's release, ' life imitated art ' when the Rams made the Super Bowl and played the Pittsburgh Steelers, their fictional opponents in this film.

The blues played a large role in the film's music.

Both songs played during the film's credits.

A principal character is named Jojo, an African American ( a minority at the time of the film's setting ) who was played by Martin Luther McCoy.

The director and the actor had differing views as to how the role should be played, and they clashed throughout the film's production, while Kinski's tantrums terrorized both the crew and the local natives who assisted the production.

Similarly, the film's jazz soundtrack ( played by Shorty Rogers and His Giants with Shelly Manne ) was a landmark in film history ; it followed on somewhat from the score provided by Alex North for A Streetcar Named Desire ( 1951 ).

Lotus Long played a heavily fictionalized " Tokyo Rose ", described on the film's posters as a " seductive jap traitress "; Byron Barr played the G. I.

In the film, they played three barbers who joined the local church choir to help out the film's protagonist Darrin ( Gooding ) who was the choir director.

" Underground " features on the soundtrack twice, first in an edited version that was played over the film's opening sequence and secondly in full.

He also co-wrote and sang " Former Child Star " for the film's soundtrack and was one of the singers of " Child Stars on Your Television ", which played over the ending credits.

The Soul Asylum song " Can't Even Tell ", which was played over the film's end credits and featured on the soundtrack, peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1994.

Of the film's cast, two actors had previously appeared in vampire movies: Udo Kier played Count Dracula in Blood for Dracula ( 1974 ) as well appearing in Blade ( 1998 ) as Dragonetti and Cary Elwes played Arthur Holmwood in Bram Stoker's Dracula ( 1992 ).