Cinema Paradiso comes to mind immediately. On 6/20/07 11:54 AM, "Barry Langford" <[log in to unmask]> 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