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There's no nice way to say it: movies love murderers. Producers may claim the killer's story is a cautionary tale, but they revel--along with the villain and the audience--in the sick grandeur of a hit man, a supervillain, a serial killer. Movies used to show what the audience wanted to be. Then Norman Bates came along, and Freddy and Jason, and Hannibal Lecter, to prove that we also wanted to see what we feared. The psycho creeps toward his victim; we can't watch, and we can't turn away...
...these shows, they want to have people that you like, and people that you don’t like. They try to create characters.”FAKE BATTLES, REAL ROMANCESDern’s teammate, bikini model Cecille Gahr, was one such character. As the show’s villain, Gahr was depicted as little more than a bitchy blonde who at one point even went so far as to disown the show for its contrived and artificial nature.Dern’s good-boy image deepened in the show’s finale, where Dern campaigned against...
...looooong iron chain. There is absolutely no precedent for this trailer. It doesn’t fit any trailer paradigm you’ve ever seen. It doesn’t show any of its cards, vis a vis who’s going to be the villain and who’s going to be the hero. All morality is up in the air, and really, would you expect anything less from the backwoods of the country we foolishly call the United States of America? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Future Uncertain I want to be excited. I want this...
Before he developed a taste for liver—with fava beans and a nice chianti, of course—Hannibal Lecter was a just a disturbed young man. Stepping into the iconic super-villain role is French actor Gaspard Ulliel, star of “Hannibal Rising,” the latest installment from Thomas Harris’ book series. Ulliel admits that tackling such a legend is “a bit scary,” but knows he can make Hannibal his own. “People are going to walk into the movie looking for similarity...
William James is the archetypal masked villain of American academia. Seldom seen on curricula, mentioned in hushed tones, his finger is seen on every subject from linguistics to comparative government. His ideological foes curse his philosophical ideas as self-evident and foolish, but few have been around him long enough to even know what they’re denouncing. In his ambitious book on James, biographer Robert Richardson illuminates the life and ideas of this oft-cited father of pragmatism with unprecedented clarity, though many of his attempts to legitimate James’ thought only deepen the subject?...