Word: villainized
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...missing (Hermione’s humane S.P.E.W. campaign, house elves Dobby and Winky), one would think a two-and-a-half-hour version of the 734-page book would suffer from confusing narrative jumps. But Kloves deftly untangles the knotty story surrounding the film’s sneaky mysterious villain and at times plots a more logical procession of events than Rowling herself. In a work focusing on the exploits of the most famous wizard in the world, it is Kloves that ultimately emerges as the film’s real hero.—Staff writer Ben B. Chung...
...ostensibly, the story of dissatisfied corporate executives Charles Schine (Owen) and Lucinda Harris (Aniston) who meet on a Chicago train and cautiously flirt before attempting an affair. Their unfaithful tryst is interrupted by a mugger who beats up Charles and rapes Lucinda; the mugger is actually an overtly villainous and obnoxiously French criminal, Phillippe Laroche (Vincent Cassell) who, with the help of sidekick Dexter (Xzibit of “Pimp My Ride”), proceeds to stalk Charles and demand high blackmail payments; Charles cannot go to the police because Lucinda refuses to make a statement of a her rape...
...louder, and the lyrics just as whip-smart as on its debut. You know the band is getting better because the love songs (Walk Away, Eleanor Put Your Boots On) have the courage to be pretty, while the snarling punk-disco romps (Well That Was Easy, I'm Your Villain) codify the lads' idea of losers (the dull, prudish and unstylish) and winners (them). Like all bands that matter, this one is well on its way to becoming a system of belief...
Like any half-decentHollywood thriller, every serious political brawl in Washington needs at least one good villain. It's not nearly as much fun or as easy to score points and hurl invective back and forth without a compelling one-dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned...
...rationale could potentially be used to challenge Congress's power to regulate a whole range of areas, from the environment to civil rights to the workplace. And who knows? On Capitol Hill, that prospect alone could be enough to turn the mild-mannered Alito into the scene-stealing villain so many Democrats would just love to hate...