its possible to immediately classify what era a movie was produced in by who it casts as the villian.

disney has decided that polluters, and more specifically people who throw out garbage, instead of recycling, are the villians of note recently.

i laugh at old(er) movies which show james bond fighing against the soviets (arabs as our allies); evil newspaper editors; evil oil barons, etc.

in a few years we'll find the villians in wall-ee equally humoroous.

by that time hollywood will have decided that there's a new villian du jour.

how about senators who use earmarks as a form of kickback to large campaign contributors?

don't like that one? how about evil school administrators who keep their kids locked in a failing system without hope of escape?