In film reviews/essays about a book or film, does the title of the movie/book always have to be highlighted/put in italics? [closed]

Solution 1:

As a rule of thumb, the answer to your question is YES. You must always use italics or quotation marks or an underline (whatever your style manual dictates is the correct way to do it).

The title of the film and the name of the main character are the same in this case, so you don't want your reader to stop mid-sentence and wonder whether you're talking about the film or the protagonist.

Moreover, italicizing the title the first time isn't conceptually the same as spelling out an abbreviation and then using the only the abbreviation from that point on. Terminological consistency is a virtue; terminological whimsy is a vice to be avoided unless your goal is to confuse the reader.