Word: villain
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hurtling, resonant parable, about a cyborg come from the future to kill a woman who would one day give birth to a postapocalypse messiah, gave Schwarzenegger a million rounds of ammunition and 75 words of dialogue, most notably the ultimate death threat: "I'll be back." Playing a robot villain, he also played with moviegoers' expectations; they could root for him to die and cheer when he kept coming back. As Arnold recalls, "A studio executive called me after The Terminator and said, 'I can't believe it. I only saw you a few seconds without your clothes...
...dozen supersoldiers infiltrate enemy territory -- and Arnold gets to go mano a mano with a space alien who looks like the Creature from the Black Hole. And in this year's Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven, he prowls through a densely detailed futureworld while masquerading as a villain, a fat woman and (least convincingly) an ordinary...
Some business strategists were puzzled by the fuss. Overseas investors, after all, already own more than $400 billion worth of U.S. businesses and real estate. And Matsushita doesn't make a very convincing villain. The world's largest consumer electronics firm (fiscal 1990 revenues: $38 billion), it manufactures some of America's favorite brands of video and audio gear: Panasonic, Quasar and Technics...
IDEAS: From heroic voyager to dark villain...
...saves golden eagle from poacher's trap. Eagle saves boy from nasty fall off towering cliff. Evil poacher kidnaps boy, tries to force him to tell where eagle aerie is. Rescue team flies in and saves everybody, including a zoo's worth of exotic creatures the villain has also captured...