Word: villian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Currier House Master William Graham is no villian. He is merely implementing what is in the best interests of the residents of his house which, after...
Besides the poorly thought-out conceptualframework, the movie does contain some borderlineoffensive aspects in regards to Snipes' character.The film has an older Black police office,presumably to balance Snipes' role as the villian,but this character soon disappears and there isnothing left to prevent the story fromdegenerating into "Crazy Black man is hunted downby reasonable white folks." This impression is nothelped by Phoenix's strange references to biscuitsand gravy or the pseudo-hip hop scratching noiseswhich appear on the soundtrack whenever he kicksor punches someone...
...partly the fault of our parents' deficiencies, society's ills, and television's images. Far be it for America to judge anyone on moral grounds for what they have done, for we didn't grow up in their circumstances. Anyone can be absolved as long as someone makes the villian out to be a member of a dysfunctional family or an unfair society...
...aura of a progressive movement. This war does not," recalls Landes. "Even those opposed to war are ready to admit that Saddam Hussein is a villian--that Iraq was wrong to invade, occupy and annex Kuwait...