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The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.
They were foiled when French anti-terrorist commandos stormed the jet as it was parked and killed the terrorists.
Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.
I'm impressed with how effortlessly Rowling balances the genre requirements of predictability--Harry will prevail, the school year will end, Voldemort will be foiled (but only temporarily!)--and surprise.
Egypt foiled a 1954 plot to discredit Egyptian ultranationalists by planting bombs in Cairo buildings.