Does the manipulation of the roles of heroes and
villains in the film add to that perspective?
Not exact matches
There's not much more to reveal, though the source also re-confirms earlier reports that Javier Bardem will play the movie's
villain,
adding that much of the
filming will take place
in South America.
Adding in the character of the Winter Soldier turns up the tension and he proves to be a much more satisfying
villain than the fairly decent Red Skull from the first
film.
Reading The Day After Tomorrow as a 9/11
film,
in fact,
adds another level of polemical discussion
in that the
film's Vice President Becker (Dick Cheney ringer Kenneth Welsh) emerges as the «I don't believe you»
villain endemic to disaster movies and,
in this way, at least partly responsible for the number of casualties suffered on behalf of his myopia.
X-Men franchise staple Patrick Stewart is also set to appear
in the
film in a co-starring role as Professor Xavier as well as the newly
added Boyd Holbrook playing the
film's
villain.
The biggest
add is of course, Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, the Black Ops big brother to Owen Shaw (Luke Evans)-- silenced
villain from the previous
film (
in which Statham made a brief appearance foreshadowing this story line).