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So you want to be a villain? How refreshing. Take a chair. Mind the trap door, it is vintage. We don't waste it on despair.
>> [music] >> Anyone can glare in velvet. Dim the lamps and shout revenge. That is not a reputation. That is volume with a fringe. Villainy requires [music] tailoring, a thesis, not a tantrum thrown. First, [music] select a motive cleanly, then embroider it in bone. [music] Figuratively, do keep up. Cruelty's common, style [music] is a rare. Make the hero feel heroic, then look better standing there. Never monologue too early, never cackle past the beat. Leave them questions, leave them shivering, leave your card beneath their feet. A great villain needs a motive, a method, and one silhouette that makes [music] the moon revise its lighting and the press release forgets. So you want to be a villain? Then be [music] velvet over steel. Make the room applaud your shadow long before your plans revealed. Keep [music] your laugh to one small sparkle, keep your blade inside the wit. True menace is a candle [music] that knows exactly when to quit. Oh, the art is in the timing, in the bow, the brand, the chill. Anyone can threaten thunder, darlings, few can dress the storm at will.
Now, about your henchmen, darling, hire fewer, pay them well. If they cannot read a blueprint, do not give [music] them keys to hell. Lairs should whisper, not announce you with a skull-shaped waterfall. And self-destructing buttons, [music] please, that's decor for amateurs [singing] or capes are [music] lovely when they bellow, tragic when they catch on doors. Traps require rehearsal, marking lighting cues, and polished floors. Never place the hero [music] in ditches from the lever marked escape. That is not a deathless scheme, dear. That's a gift with better drape. Entrance [music] after thunder, never during thunder. Learn the craft or let the silence do the stalking. Let the footmen hide the draft. must [music] explain your genius, do it after they have lost. Mystery earns compound interest. Vanity is overhead cost.
So, you want to be a villain? >> [music] >> Then be velvet over steel. Make the room a larger shadow long before your [music] plan's revealed. Keep your laugh to one small sparkle. Keep your blade inside the wick. True menace is a candle that knows exactly [music] when to quit. Oh, the art is in the timing, in the bow, the brand, the chill. ANYONE [music] CAN THREATEN THUNDER, DARLING. Steel can dress the storm at will. >> [music] >> Lesson four, branding. >> [music] >> A raven? Too expected. A rose? Too [music] innocent. A silver key? Promising. You want a symbol that says [music] "I was here." And you noticed too late.
>> I was once like you, [music] impatient, overlit, and underfed. Built a tower out of fury, painted every [music] window red. Then I learned the sharper horror, patience wearing evening gloves. Move one [music] pawn and let them praise you. Move the court and call it love. Heroes rush toward noble endings, certain [music] virtue makes them wise. We compose the room around them, write the weather [music] in their eyes. And you, my bright apprentice, with your questions, pulse, and grin, how thoughtful of you to arrive [music] just as act three begins.
>> So, you want to be a [music] villain? Then be velvet over steel. Make [music] the room applaud your shadow >> [singing] >> long before [music] your plan's revealed. Keep your laughter once the small sparkle, keep your blade inside the wit. True menace [music] is a candle that knows exactly when to quit. The art is in the timing, in the bow, the brand, the chill. ANYONE CAN THREATEN THUNDER, DARLINGS few >> [music] >> can dress the storm [singing] at will. Sign here beside [music] the candle, know the ink is not alive. You'll begin as my successor should my [music] current self survive. Smile for the portrait, lovely face the back in each and high. >> Every masterpiece needs [music] witness. Every lesson needs a lie.