for the episode following our next upload we'll be looking at examples of either characters or performances that helped bring about a paradigm shift in a genre or even in an entire medium. one fairly obvious example was when the zuckers cast leslie nielsen - a notoriously serious actor from a long list of notoriously serious movies - in airplane, which was all about skewering those over-the-top disaster flicks. comedy was never the same. similarly, die hard was supposed to have been a commando sequel, but arnold wasn't available so they ended up casting bruce willis as the protagonist and introduced a whole new type of 'everyman' action hero. any other good examples?
