Word: villainizing
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...absolutely right in what they're writing about. But Genet has gone one step behind, after the auger, when a man no longer says "I'm gonna kill yoah assi" He can sit back and say "I'm going to kill you." And smile, and smile, and be a villain, as the man said. An it's much more frightening. In 1961, when we did it in New York, anger and hatred were the same thing, and that play erupted on the stage, violently, because we'l all contained all this for so long. But if you look very carefully...
...incontrovertible proof of Chaplin's protean ability to eliminate absolutely everything outside the confines of the screen. Armed with nothing but cane and bowler, the tramp sets out like Quixote with lance and armor. His enemy is the cruel owner of the big top; his love, the villain's misused stepdaughter (Merna Kennedy...
...such terror we recognize the power of each simple detail, the seriousness of all the beautiful things happening before our eyes. Sorrows is no sweet moralistic drama. The moral unity it maintains is the most complex of artistic attitudes. Satan, for example, is no villain. Indeed, Griffith discarded villains after America (1924). The men who rob the hero and heroine of Isn't Life Wonderful are driven to their crime by hunger and, like the two leads, by marital love. They are as human, as noble, as anyone else. Satan goes through more intense emotional crises even than the deserted...
...Cross and a World War II Navy veteran-was a senior vice president and second in command at CBS. Then he lost out in a company power struggle. In 1968, he ran Richard Nixon's successful television campaign and gained a cynical, ruthless reputation that made him the villain of Joe McGinniss' book, The Selling of the President 1968. In one incident, McGinniss reports that Shakespeare, when told of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, exulted: "What a break! This Czech thing is just perfect. It puts the soft-liners in a hell...
...traveling with a small circus destined for the Old West town of Yellow Back Radio. When the circus gets there, it is met by a band of loving children who have succeeded in driving out the resident adults in order to "create their own fiction." But the misbegotten villain, greedy rancher Drag Gibson, slaughters the children and most of the circus, leaving only Loop Garoo to plot a spectacular revenge, complete with show-downs, hide-outs. Christ figures, and all the working magic of the American Hoo-Doo Church...