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Chabrol also learned from Clouzot, whose bleak, brilliant melodramas--Le Corbeau, Diabolique, Quai des Orfčvres--allow for few heroes. Most of the characters are a blend of victim and villain. The Wages of Fear is a tale of four desperate men trucking a ton of nitroglycerin across bumpy South American roads. It's a brutal ride, relentlessly tense and informed by Clouzot's stop-watch timing and a tone that effortlessly juggles machismo and misanthropy...
...Doom, who broke out with last year’s collaboration with producer Madlib “Madvillainy,” is infamous, at least partially, for channeling Marvel Comics super villain Dr. Doom in his metal-faced stage persona. Danger Mouse became a hip-hop household name through his unauthorized mash-up project “The Gray Album” (a mixture of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’ White Album). Many Adult Swim cartoons borrow liberally from past Hanna-Barbara productions (Aqualab and Space Ghost, in particular). In this way, collaboration...
...VILLAIN IS THE CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. DONALD SUTHERLAND, HE'S THE HEAVY. He's such a bad guy, I hadn't even noticed he was a Republican...
...Taylor, a former Anglican preacher who self-published the first edition of “Shadowmancer” by selling his motorcycle, seems to trust that the evident evil of Demurral will provide an adequate motive for Kate and Thomas to kill the villain. Rather than creating main characters with any depth, Taylor deploys Christian imagery, seemingly hoping that the Holy Spirit will carry the plot forward...
...Suddenly audiences could not be counted upon to treat a given wrestler automatically as a villain simply because he was identified as a Russian,” Cantor observes. And the World Wrestling Federation’s new bad-boy of the early 1990s, a pro-apartheid white South African character named Colonel DeBeers, failed to rouse audiences?...