Word: villainized
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...also wrote martial numbers and at least one symphony. Setting up his own studio in the palace, Sihanouk began producing motion pictures (for charity) starring himself, with a supporting cast of Cambodian civil servants. With characteristic impartiality, Sihanouk played both a detective and a villain...
First, Harry Smith appears as the Narrator (some will call him a villain, some will call him God). Seductive and compassionate, Smith jokes with his audience and plays with his fellows on the stage. His song sets the score: "Try to Remember, those days in September when Grass was Green and grain was yellow." It is a season of moonlight and magic; and no one is so entranced as young lovers...
Burt Lancaster, the villain, is a demagogic Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with a large following at V.F.W. posts across the country. Lancaster is convinced that President Marsh is taking the country to Hell. His aide, Kirk Douglas, does not like the disarmament treaty any more than General Lancaster. But when he discovers that Lancaster is planning a military coup, he is caught between respect for military discipline and his belief in the principles of the Constitution. The principles of the Constitution win out: Douglas tells President March what Lancaster is planning...
...Villain of the piece is the devoted public prosecutor of Tangier, who presses for the execution of a bank robber, Sean McKenna, as a bonum exemplum of the power of the law even in that North African Gomorrah. Though only an accomplice in the crime, McKenna is condemned under the Draconian local statutes. As the hour of expiation nears, the distaste of prison wardens, lawyers, and even the firing squad grows rapidly...
...audience began in the full spirit of the play, hissing the villain or the ranting hypocrite, singing "God Save the King," applauding patriotic aphorisms dropped by the hero, and sighing with the heroine as she coughs bravely into a handkerchief--a la Camille. In the second act, however, the cooperation changed to hostility, and even a superbly buffo fight could not rouse interest. A good period piece Sweeney Todd undeniably is, but who reads Henry Esmond for pleasure any more...