Coming to you just a bit late: Moliere Questions

1) As pretty and "refined" as it is, Moliere's characters use his verse as a weapon, wielding their rhymes against each other. What other plays or movies are you familiar with that do this, arm their characters with vicious verbs and pointed pronouns instead of, well, guns? Which form of attack do you find more engaging?

2) Moliere (and to some degree Shakespeare) used stock characters, recognizable archetypes/stereotypes for many of his plays. What sort of stereotypical characters do we see repeated over and over again in today's movies? What can take a stereotypical character and make it unique?