Adebayor -- Hero or villain?

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Since the thieves (who dressed as police) have not been identified, and since every crime story needs a villain, Stolen substitutes a hero with a would-be hero--the crime's investigator, Harold Smith , a respected insurance investigator of 78, disfigured by skin cancer, who has made recovering the Gardner pictures the mission of his retirement.

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Mr. Grahame-Smith crafted it from the beginning as a book-to-film franchise, building in a cinematic, three-act story arc, a central hero and villain and carefully timed dramatic twists that he refers to as "beats, " in screenwriter's parlance.

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However, the midfielder went from hero to villain in the fifth and final minute of injury time when he leapt two-footed into a tackle with Dempsey that saw him win the ball, but was deemed dangerous enough to warrant instant dismissal by referee Martin Atkinson.

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