Sure, Daniel Radcliffe kidnaps Sandra Bullock in TheLostCity. But he's just so darn polite about it!
Movie villains come in all shapes and sizes. Some are mustache-twirling sleazeballs. Some like to ramble on about their grand plans and show off how smart they are. Some seem crazy from moment one and just want to watch the world burn. And, hey, those types of villains are all fine. But there's another type of movie villain that is underused and underappreciated, a villain who is also delightful when deployed properly.
For starters, the film's script does a good job giving Fairfax a simple but effective motivation: He's a rich, spoiled British guy who was expecting to inherit his father's media empire but got passed over in favor of his younger brother. Sure, that would suck for anyone. But rather than sitting around bitching about it, Fairfax decides to carve out his own personal niche by discovering some ancient, exotic treasure.
Just as polite and a little less gung-ho about mass casualties is Raiders of the Lost Ark's René Belloq . Belloq may hang around with the Nazis, but he's not one of them. He's mostly in the treasure-hunting game for the money and maybe the occasional opportunity to talk to god. Throughout Raiders, he's presented more as Indy's courteous but slightly darker rival than a true villain. . But Belloq would just as well buy you a drink at the local bar than kill you.