"but it's difficult trying to come up with a villain that is worthy of them.
"If you can find a villain that makes people hiss, that's incredibly valuable.
A hypocritical villain, that is to say, is a greater villain than one whose villainy goes unconcealed.
Paolo, the villain (that much seems clear), was the bass-baritone Patrick Carfizzi, whose strong voice flagged as the night went on.
Infernal Affairs hangs on the operatic confrontation of cop and villain that feels a little like the great De Niro-Pacino face-off in Michael Mann's Heat.
"I got offered the job and thought, 'Children's film villain – that could be quite jolly.' I tried to give it a bit of a Dennis Price sneery thing".
The new thriller "Contagion" revisits a conundrum that has bedeviled many filmmakers over the years: how do you make a movie about a virus, a villain that isn't even visible?
"If you have less and less contact, which is what's happening now, and the void is being filled with these, frankly, exaggerated caricatures of the other as villain, that is just going to make things worse".
Speculation is growing that the firm will have to sacrifice one of its top men if it wants to stop the bombardment.Having at first been applauded for risk-managing its way through a crisis that destroyed many of its rivals, Goldman has been recast as a villain that represents capitalism at its most egregious.
Although the facts suggest that banks and hedge funds saw a thinly papered-over debt and deficit hole in the euro's accounts and punched through it for profit, Mrs. Merkel identified credit default swaps as the villain that had to be vanquished.
Typically, there is a background of ominous piano music, a stentorian narrator and a clear villain — that would be the governor himself — all part of the numerous attack ads that have proliferated in the capital as he has pressed for budget cuts.
