City of God and The Conformist (sort of--its structure is similar to Once Upon a Time in America) come to mind. Barry Langford wrote: >Dear All > >Can anyone think of any movies which begin with a child protagonist and then >move on to dramatise the same character's experiences as an adult? I'm not >thinking here of film series (e.g. 400 Blows & sequels), nor films with brief >childhood flashbacks (e.g. Silence of the Lambs, Day for Night, countless >others), but individual films significantly structured in this way (presumably >employing different actors). I'm sure there must be several but at present all I >can think of is Once Upon a Time in America (strictly speaking this of course >starts in adulthood, then reverts to childhood, then advances to old age...but >you get the idea). Any suggestions very gratefully received. > >Tx Barry > >Dr Barry Langford >Senior Lecturer in Film & Television Studies >Department of Media Arts >Royal Holloway, University of London >Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX >(01784) 443734/443833 >[log in to unmask] > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu > ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org