villainy

The person setting all this in motion is a Harkonnen, a name associated in the movie “Dune”-iverse with violent strongman rulership and all-purpose villainy.

Huston’s ready-made villainy won’t suffer either, although I’m pretty sure a shot of him closing his eyes — ostensibly in monstrous reverie — is really just an attempt to remember better gigs.

The campaign calls on the film industry to stop using visible differences such as scars and burns as shorthand for villainy.

Terry Gilliam’s original “Time Bandits” presents it as a kind of passive villainy, although if you were among the kids who saw it in 1981 you might not have recognized that.

In this edited conversation, Manzoor talks about the show, the band’s struggle, catharsis and the power of positive villainy.