Word: villainizing
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...manager says guilelessly: "There's no profit in ice. In dope, plenty." The hero, Bruce Lee, may be furious of fist, but he is decidedly slow on the uptake. He spends an extraordinary amount of time tracking down the archvillain. Finally, the two lock in combat on the villain's lawn. While they kick, chop and clobber each other, the road right beside the field of battle is fairly clogged with traffic. No one bothers to take a look, much less stops to help, an inadvertent suggestion of how quickly boredom can beset the martial arts...
Until Watergate, much of the public seemed willing to go along with the Administration in regarding the press as a villain. There appeared to be little popular indignation over the rhetorical or legal thrusts at press freedom. Local prosecutors and judges, taking a cue from Washington, began pressuring reporters to reveal confidential material. Consciously or unconsciously, some journalists-particularly on television-tended to be more cautious...
Back then, the cry was, "De Gaulle to the museum!" This time the target, like the crowds, was much smaller. "Debré salaud, on aura ta peau!" (Debré, you bastard, we'll have your hide). Gaullist Defense Minister Michel Debré, a perennial villain of the French left, was under fire for sponsoring the new draft...
...provincial actress passing through Houston in a touring company of Plaza Suite, who resolves to give her former spouse another tumble when she gets word of his criminal exploits. As a big businessman in the process of being blackmailed by O'Neal, Charles Cioffi, who appeared as the,villain in Klute and the beleaguered cop in Shaft, continues to display a chameleon-like facility. Austin Pendelton as a chess master driven to fits of impotent violence by O'Neal's computerized skill at the game, Ned Beatty as a fast-talking fence and rabid family...
...engaging villain, sympathetic in his evil, is at least as old as Milton's Satan. But Victor Canning, a master craftsman of English thrillers, has managed to conjure up a variation. He is Edward Shoebridge, a saturnine hunter, a falconer who feels pollution and plastic closing in and coldly uses crime to raise the money to escape to some rustic Scandinavian fortress. His business is kidnaping high political figures in impeccable style. He takes his ransom in uncut diamonds...