Word: villainizing
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...easy to cast them as these horrible villain-types," he says. "It's more a reflection of society that people feel they have to go through these means to be accepted...
...subsequent controversy roiled artists, politicians, the A.C.L.U., the courts and editorial writers, who saw in it the clash of titanic forces.The villain in the melodrama was the government. It can haul you before congressional committees and ruin your career, as it did to the Hollywood Ten. It can threaten you with jail time on trumped-up charges, as it did to the Chicago Seven. It can bar you from going to your local high school, as it did to the Little Rock Nine...
...first presents him ambiguously, quoting Biblical passages. Part of this sympathy may be due to the means of attaining footage. Since the footage largely came from the Branch Davidians themselves, Koresh may have censored it. But that which Gazecki retains shows Koresh as a complex man, far from the villain portrayed by the media...
...Irma P. Hall) is warm, loving, doomed. One daughter, Maxine (Vivica A. Fox), is heart-smart and, since she's a mother, a font of family wisdom. Another, Teri (Vanessa L. Williams), a successful lawyer who has subsidized most of the family's extravagances, is, of course, the villain of the piece. Poor Williams: her pretty mouth is forever prissed in disapproval at her more sympathetic sibs...
...Lost World. It works well for a while, thanks to Mimi Leder's bustling direction and to Clooney, who has a gift for eroticizing impatience. ("Women!" his stare says. "Can't live with 'em; they can't live without me.") Then the film finds sympathy for its villain and goes softly nuts with him. In the final chase everyone's IQ drops about 20 points...