Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Forman wondered aloud about the audience's reception of "Larry Flynt." And what are Forman's own feelings toward Larry Flynt the man? "I did not expect to like Larry Flynt," said Forman, "but I could not help but find him very charming. But, as Alfred Hitchcock said, 'the villain has to be charming. Otherwise, he is not interesting...
Roper is issued a regulation villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel. But though Roper is often at gunpoint, Murphy wasn't when he agreed to make Metro. In his bumpy tryst with filmgoers, how long will he make us wait for another Nutty Professor? How long until we can love Eddie again...
...galoot partner (Michael Rapaport), there's no room for Eddie to be Eddie. It's as if Carter thought the project was a smooth vehicle that Murphy could simply ride in, when it's really a hunk-a-junk the star needed to transform. Roper is issued a regulation villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel...
...liberal's burden--the crusade, waged by some stalwart fellow with star quality, to purge his community of official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have fun and lock up an Oscar nomination. Ghosts of Mississippi argues fervently for racial equality in the New South; yet in its perpetuation of the caste system in Hollywood dramas...
...concepts thrown into the film. This version of "101 Dalmatians" has been updated to the nineties, so that Cruella is a fashion mogul with a large corporation and Roger designs video games. In the movie, Roger is working on a game featuring Dalmatians, but he cannot find the perfect villain for his creation until he meets De Vil, whose dementia serves as a twisted inspiration...