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Director Robert Zemeckis walks 'The Walk' as a quixotic filmmaker @ LA Times
September 25, 2015
Like a ship's signal lamp or a backward Beatles album, the movies of the Hollywood filmmaker Robert Zemeckis will throw off a pattern if you pay close enough attention.
Many of them involve a repeating character, a dreamer with a quixotic streak. It's a person who has a slightly sideways view of the world and the dogged belief that others will soon share it too, if only he's given the chance to convince them.
Shades of the archetype can be found in Christopher Lloyd's Doc Brown from "Back to the Future," in Jodie Foster's space-gazing Dr. Ellie Arroway from "Contact," in the group of clever star-seeking young women from his debut, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand," even in Tom Hanks' Chuck Noland from "Cast Away.".......