Word: villainized
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...with other Ferrell films. It's a sports comedy, like Kicking and Screaming (soccer), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (NASCAR racing) and next year's Semi-Pro (basketball). Like Talladega it gives him a colleague who's also a rival (Jon Heder) and a villain (here the tandem of Will Arnett and Amy Poehler) who will surely be defeated in the climactic competition. Blades also plants a few sport icons in the supporting cast; as Dale Earnhart Jr. dressed up the race-car movie, Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Scott Hamilton, Brian Boitano and Nancy Kerrigan lent their implicit...
There's no nice way to say it: movies love murderers. Producers may claim the killer's story is a cautionary tale, but they revel--along with the villain and the audience--in the sick grandeur of a hit man, a supervillain, a serial killer. Movies used to show what the audience wanted to be. Then Norman Bates came along, and Freddy and Jason, and Hannibal Lecter, to prove that we also wanted to see what we feared. The psycho creeps toward his victim; we can't watch, and we can't turn away...
...these shows, they want to have people that you like, and people that you don’t like. They try to create characters.”FAKE BATTLES, REAL ROMANCESDern’s teammate, bikini model Cecille Gahr, was one such character. As the show’s villain, Gahr was depicted as little more than a bitchy blonde who at one point even went so far as to disown the show for its contrived and artificial nature.Dern’s good-boy image deepened in the show’s finale, where Dern campaigned against...
Before he developed a taste for liver—with fava beans and a nice chianti, of course—Hannibal Lecter was a just a disturbed young man. Stepping into the iconic super-villain role is French actor Gaspard Ulliel, star of “Hannibal Rising,” the latest installment from Thomas Harris’ book series. Ulliel admits that tackling such a legend is “a bit scary,” but knows he can make Hannibal his own. “People are going to walk into the movie looking for similarity...
William James is the archetypal masked villain of American academia. Seldom seen on curricula, mentioned in hushed tones, his finger is seen on every subject from linguistics to comparative government. His ideological foes curse his philosophical ideas as self-evident and foolish, but few have been around him long enough to even know what they’re denouncing. In his ambitious book on James, biographer Robert Richardson illuminates the life and ideas of this oft-cited father of pragmatism with unprecedented clarity, though many of his attempts to legitimate James’ thought only deepen the subject?...