In truth, he never really found as much excitement as his movie hero had.

Even a beleaguered movie hero usually has at least a nailfile or something.

We shouldn't settle for movie heroes who don't do more than show up.

That's because they know that deep down, like every movie hero, he could never really have been a Communist.

They also turn to the movie heroes to boost their own images.

Dennis stumbles into more good fortune that he isn't looking for and doesn't really want than any movie hero before him.

Unlike the movie hero, they did not walk away unharmed.

He was not a movie hero, or a superman, who could charge through waves of men with machine guns.

More importantly, what kind of movie hero is this?

Although repressed movie heroes may be new, male repression isn't.