Something I’ve noticed recently is that when a character, early in an action, drama, or thriller movie, kills one of his own henchmen, that means he’s the major bad guy for the story. Most recently, watching “King Arthur”, it was the Saxon leader. I don’t think he was on screen for more than a couple minutes before he killed one of his followers that was molesting some English woman in a sacked village. Of course, just to make it absolutely clear he’s not just defending the woman (which might make him have some good in him), he instructs his surviving followers to kill her, too, admonishing them not to dilute the Saxon gene-pool by fraternizing with non-Saxon women. Maybe it’s not the best example, but if you watch for it, you’ll see this pattern time and time again.
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