Reading Time: < 1 minuteThere is a tendency, not to say regularity, for action actors like e.g.: Mark Wahlberg Dwayne Johnson John Cena Dave Bautista Ryan Reynolds and others to be the protagonists in comedies with some action elements or in superhero movies. I don’t know whether such comedy movies Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are all iconic action heroes for the 1980s and 1990s. Each one has its own idiosyncrasy and personal style of acting. Yet, all three have contributed some of the best action movies ever made, which are nowadays considered classic. In the last decades, Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever printed; Lin et al. 2012) relative to all remaining phrases Read more…