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Unfortunately, he and Murphy have applied the same sunny/snarky tonality to this project, which would seem to call for something more wicked.
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Which might lead one to believe that Cameron isn't mad at all – that in flogging off the public's assets to financiers in the City and beyond, he is doing something much more wicked.
(Comedy Central has done something similar, but much more wicked, in "Drawn Together," an animated "reality" show featuring cartoon archetypes — a musclebound superhero, a Betty Boop look-alike, a Pikachu wannabe — living together in a house and displaying the undiscriminating libidos and tiny minds that seem to be prerequisites for most reality shows. It's filthy, and sometimes it's even funny).
There is something more quintessentially evil in that scene, more wicked (to use that quaint word in its original sense) than in a thousand "violent" or "scary" movies.
The idea came to him, he told me, after a friend asked him, "Are you interested in art and design just for art and design, or do you want to apply it to more wicked problems, to help people, like health care or something?" The question got him thinking, and he realized, "I do care about wicked stuff, but I didn't know what exactly".
Perhaps Anglo-Saxon audiences want something more from their fictional heroes: they want them imbued with the power to change events, and inflict total defeat on the wicked.
More wicked humour.
It grows lovelier, grainier, more confident, more wicked.
Climate and energy are far more "wicked" (complicated).
Something more?
Carroll wanted something more.
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