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...other examples of revenge gorenography. The genre was launched with the 1962 Cape Fear (and its John D. MacDonald source novel), whose killer not only tracks down the lawyer who prosecuted him but terrorizes the man's wife and child. The movie's sobering climax - the lawyer refuses to kill the killer, because he will not be reduced, even in extremis, to his animal impulses - was rectified in the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake, where wily psychopath Robert De Niro dies several times. The same year, The Silence of the Lambs brought the genre its essential wrinkle of the evil genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...both fretful and distracted; he can be a vital screen presence, but his characters need to act, not just react and endure. Butler has the showier part, but his impersonation of the tragic hero is undercut by his weird resemblance to Soupy Sales. You start hoping that Shelton will kill somebody with a custard (or puffer-fish) pie to the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law Abiding Citizen: Hannibal Lecture | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Imagine playing Kill the Carrier on an open field. Now imagine playing it with 300-pound men. And you have the ball...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Multi-faceted Crimson To Take on Leopards | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

Imagine playing Kill the Carrier on an open field. Now imagine playing it with 300-pound men. And you have the ball...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Multi-faceted Crimson To Take on Leopards | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...there," his mother, a lawyer, says. "I took long walks every day, worried every minute, avoided reading the papers or listening to news about the war, wondered how my son could tell the difference between people over there who wanted peace and people who wanted to kill him." (Watch a video of the soldier experience in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One Death in Afghanistan: Ben Sklaver's Story | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

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