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Bad, Dad And Dangerous To Know: Father Figures In Hollywood
David Bax , November 16th, 2009 08:31

Not all substitute father figures were as successful as Arnie in Terminator 2, as Battleship Pretension's David Bax explains.

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This Is England

Speaking of bad father figures, young Shaun couldn’t have picked a worse replacement than Combo, played with terrifying ferocity by Stephen Graham. Just when the angry child was starting to calm down and do the things a 12 year old should be doing (shaving his head, wearing Ben Sherman clothes), along comes a violent white supremacist that poor Shaun doesn’t know any better than to be convinced by. It’s a good thing his mother, who lets him hang out with people ten years older than he is, set such a good example.