Word: villainness
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Unfortunately, Casino Royale has to stick to the Fleming plot; it must also be Basic Bond. (The movie is so personality-split that 007 could refer to the number of the hero's warring personalities.) In this case, that demands not just the sneering villain (Mads Mikkelsen as Le Chiffre, banker to the terrorist élite) and the tempting females, one blond (Ivana Milicevic) and one brunet (the criminally alluring Eva Green). It means that the focus of the plot must be ... a card game! We grant that high-stakes poker has its tension, especially if it's your hand...
...Because it's as ingenious, and remorseless, as its twisted villain. The brilliant, devious psycho-shadow, dreaming up ways for his victims to kill themselves, is a sepulchral stand-in for the writer (Whannel on all three films) and the director (James Wan on the first, Darren Lynn Bousman on the next two). They are playing the same murderous mind games on the audience - which is trapped, not in a urinal dungeon or a booby-trapped house, but in the darkness of a movie theater or rec room...
...MOVIE SAW THE DEVIL'S REJECTS HOSTEL THE HILLS HAVE EYES THE DESCENT SAW III THE FILMMAKERS Leigh Whannell and James Wan Rob Zombie Eli Roth Alexandre Aja Neil Marshall Darren Lynn Bousman THE GORY DETAILS An ill villain pushes victims to value their lives by forcing them into grisly traps in the 2004 hit Cost: $1.2 million Box office: $103 million A clan of serial-killer hillbillies take off on a gory road trip as they run from police Cost: $7 million Box office: $20 million Young backpackers unwittingly stumble onto a pay-for-torture club in Slovakia Cost...
...Mart a hero or a villain? Will immigrants help or hurt the wages of native workers? Do sweatshops alleviate or exacerbate poverty? Will a gasoline tax hurt oil companies or consumers? How does limiting trade affect a country’s well-being...
...That mind-set has been the subject of two smaller films, the Palestinian Paradise Now and the New York-based The War Within. Hollywood hasn't touched the Jihadist ethic, even to create a villain out if it. Nor have American movies taken the All the President's Men approach to the Bush Administration's post-9/11 game plan. Where is the film industry when it could explain concerns on every viewer's mind? To paraphrase the old refrain, What if they gave a war and Hollywood didn't come...