AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes & Villains
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes and Villains is a list of the one-hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years… series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation programme was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.
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Heroes and Villains
"Heroes and Villains" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys written and produced by the group's leader Brian Wilson in collaboration with songwriter Van Dyke Parks. Envisioned as a three-minute music comedy, it was to be the ambitious centerpiece of the group's forthcoming album Smile. The album was instead shelved, and the song was rearranged and issued as a single in July 1967 with "You're Welcome" as the B-side. It charted at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100. Two months later, it appeared as the opening track to the group's Smiley Smile album.
The song was the first written for the Smile project. Though the lyrics are distinctly Western with some allusions to the American Indian genocides, former wife Marilyn Wilson claimed that Brian meant the "heroes" and "villains" to represent the ones in his life.
It was the follow-up single to the group's "Good Vibrations"; both tracks were produced using the same unorthodox method of recording a surplus of musical sections in piecemeal using multiple Hollywood studios. Only during its final production stages would the song then be reduced and assembled into a coherent structure. This proved difficult for Wilson, who grew increasingly frustrated with the virtually limitless number of possible song edits. Bandmate Al Jardine later expressed dissatisfaction with the final composite, calling it "a pale facsimile" of Wilson's original vision, believing that he had "underproduced" the song at the last minute.
Heroes and Villains (Only Fools and Horses)
"Heroes and Villains" is an episode of the BBC sitcom, Only Fools and Horses, first screened on 25 December 1996 as the first part of the 1996 Christmas trilogy and the thirteenth Christmas special. It attracted a UK television audience of 21.3 million, at the time a record for the show. In the episode, Del and Rodney are invited to a fancy dress party,
Synopsis
The episode opens with Rodney's futuristic dream, in which a grown-up Damien, head of the now multinational and all-powerful Trotters Independent Traders, apparently rules the western world in the year 2026, barking orders to President Keanu Reeves to declare war on China, claiming that "war is good". Del Boy (who is now Lord of Peckham) and Raquel live in a luxurious office block, Trotter Towers, but Rodney himself is merely an old messenger, Cassandra is a maid (after Damien took over her bank and fired her), and Uncle Albert's body has been preserved (all he can say is his trademark phrase "During the war..." on a constant loop).
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Heroes & Villains
Won't need no mercy on my soul When the lawman's got me cold 'Cause breaking the rules that they told Was something I had to do Play their game But you start to win and the rules change So my ship come rollin' in, it's gonna roll right over you (And your law too)
The tightrope we walk leads straight to the gallows And when the hangman calls your name
Heroes and villains hang the same
Early in the morning swinging in the breeze There's a mist shrouded figure hangin' in the sycamore tree Hero or villain don't matter much to me They all end up the same, no one gets off scot-free
The tightrope we walk leads straight to the gallows And when the hangman calls your name
Heroes and villains hang the same Sinner or sainthood's your game
Whether you're a demon or divine When the hangman says it's time You won't see me sing the blues 'Cause I said fuck all your rules
Heroes and villains hang the same
It's just the writing on the tombstone change There ain't a peasant or a king Escapes that Dodge city rope swing
When the hangman calls your name Heroes and villains hang the same
Maybe I'll concede to do anything you want me to Maybe I'll bleed for you but you gotta catch me You know I'll cry for you Maybe I'll fry for you Someday I'll die for you But you gotta catch me (Better hit me with your first shot)
Won't need no mercy on my soul When the lawman's got me cold Before I swing from that gallows pole Catch me if you can My time ain't due.....