Film titles and their protagonists
Which use of quotation marks is correct? I am referring to the sentences where we talk about protagonists of movies, books.
"The Matrix" protagonist or "The Matrix" 's protagonist
"The Rocky" protagonist or "The Rocky" 's protagonist
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Luckily, movies and books get italics, so we don't have the punctuation mess to deal with. The Matrix 's protagonist Rocky 's protagonist (no "the") Those are correct, but the reader might get the feeling you're trying to conserve ink. I'm sure there are contexts where the possessive is better, but I would normally go with "the protagonist of The Matrix ", and "the protagonist of Rocky ", which is, well, Rocky, isn't it?
- Luckily, movies and books get italics, so we don't have the punctuation mess to deal with.
- The Matrix 's protagonist Rocky 's protagonist (no "the") Those are correct, but the reader might get the feeling you're trying to conserve ink.
- I'm sure there are contexts where the possessive is better, but I would normally go with "the protagonist of The Matrix ", and "the protagonist of Rocky ", which is, well, Rocky, isn't it?
- But there are times when closing quotes and apostrophes collide, and you just bite the bullet and do it logically, no extra spaces: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”'s rhyming pattern is AABA three times and then AAAA.
- But that is not very good.
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Luckily, movies and books get italics, so we don't have the punctuation mess to deal with.
The Matrix's protagonist
Rocky's protagonist (no "the")
Those are correct, but the reader might get the feeling you're trying to conserve ink. I'm sure there are contexts where the possessive is better, but I would normally go with "the protagonist of The Matrix", a
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