Word: villainizing
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...Italy and fashioned for her novel Romola has been recaptured by the camera. Amazingly beautiful photography of the strange old sleepy city on the Arno is, next to Miss Gish's playing, the feature of the narrative. Opening with a galley-slave ship scene, the escape of the villain, his marriage with the blind Bardi's daughter, his betrayal of her, his denial of his aged father, his death, follow the outline of the story...
Greed. Eric Von Stroheim is the boy that used to do the dirty work, the villain. He acts no more. As a director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...
...prairie schooners; and again, unlike that extraordinary film, it fails notably to mix history and drama in the right proportions. The play is a saga of the cattlemen, a panorama of miles of prairie where trailed the endless herds of long horns. A villain?you know he is the villain because he shot an Indian girl while she was bathing in the creek?is in the competent hands of Noah Beery...
Roaring Rails is virtually a flashback. It returns to the days when all that was necessary for a vast success was a good train wreck and a knock-down-drag-out fight (in which the villain was knocked and dragged). There was also a girl and, usually, a dynamite job under the canyon bridge. Roaring Rails has all of these plus a small section of the World War. The hero is a locomotive engineer. People who are burdened with deep intelligence are cautioned not to ride behind...
...conducted it must not be as representatives of the University. Accordingly with true Harvard deference for University authority, a transparency was carried by the Class of 1873 in the procession, which bore upon it the legend, "Whoever says we are Harvard Seniors is a Liar and a Villain." This obedience to the Faculty's decree taught that body never to interfere again in processions of this kind...