Elle's faux crustiness gleams with her heart of gold, and the movie's heroes and villains line up as obviously as in a blockbuster.
Mads Mikkelsen as the sinister Le Chiffre came from the understated yet brutal school of Bond villains, lining up alongside Live and Let Die's Mr Big, Dr No or Telly Savalas's take on Ernst Blofeld in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
Harmon then goes on to apologize to everyone whom he might have offended, including the "Community" fan base ("What I said was disrespectful to your love for this show"), the cast and crew ("It was dishonest to imply that something you worked on was as hard to watch as my family being assaulted") and finally the writers of season four ("I liked the 'Hogan's Villains' line").
It's a villain's line, but one that carries a throb of multiple meanings.
There was something dry and defined and feline in his speech, a note of intelligent skepticism he used for his heroes and his villains, straight lines and punchlines; it was not an instrument formed for unburdenings or outbursts.
Downstairs is a Bond-villain lair lined with extravagant, coral-reefed fishtanks throwing out an eerie glow.
Many murder mystery and thriller novels have perfectly normal, well functioning people who are thrust into not so normal situations as a result of a psychopathic antagonist or a villain along those lines.
But the funniest bits were funny for everyone — the villain saying the line "Maniacal laugh!" instead of maniacally laughing — because absurdism, done right, cuts through the age gap.
In one he starts by saying, "Who's he, then, to say I play the villain?" – an extraordinary line, the actor commenting on his part to the audience.
At the line,"Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore", this Othello starts to inflict Abu-Ghraib-style torture methods on his nemesis, whom he nearly asphyxiates with a plastic bag.
