What Happened To Our Villains?
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Published 2021-01-18
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The Villains are still around. They just write, produce and direct now.
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The saddest thing is that Kylo - even though he's an inadequate villain - actually is a more interesting character than all the protagonists...
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In the first Matrix, we see Trinity being a badass, but eventually being outdone by the agents, and only just escaping. It gave me respect for her as a character, and also a higher sense of tension and fear of the agents. This isn’t rocket science y’all.
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Never allowing a woman to lose implies that she is NOT equal. Thanks for the likes, folks.
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There's a reason People cheered when Thanos punches the shit out of Captain Marvel
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I think Davy Jones is also a great example of a visually intimidating villain.
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There's no such thing as bad guys anymore, they are just misunderstood, and we get movies centered on them to help us sympathize with them and make them appear as good people.
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1980s villain; (Vader kills someone's and then says) Apology accepted 2020's villain; if you dont do what I say Imma tell my mommy
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“The better the villain, the better the movie” -Hitchcock
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"If your antagonist starts out weaker than the hero, then what the fuck is there left to strive against?" - Possibly the most succinctly perfect and true statement about the problem I've ever heard. There are so many aspects to strength, and these days villains seem to have incredible weaknesses written into them.
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Kylo is a better antihero than a villain I suspect. Still, I will note: a villain being dangerously unstable rather than cool and collected can definitely work as well (see Homelander), but it has to ensure that the instability is genuinely dangerous to others.
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This is one reason I LOVED Puss N Boots. Jack Horner has all the elements of a villain that ends up being more sympathetic. Instead, as the film's Jiminy Cricket described it, "You're an irredeemable MONSTER!" Death has all the elements of a scary villain, but he's more like a ruthless force of nature.
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We live in a world in which a fan made movie with no budget is way more satisfying than billion dollar Hollywood movies
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As I woman, I hate getting pandered to. As if I'm not as smart as male movie watchers, like I need to have stories fed to me like I was a child.
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“Easily brushed aside when the script decides it’s time for them to lose” is the best articulated point about how disingenuous modern film villains have become. Villains are formidable, there is a reason why Darth Vader walks slow and it’s because he moves for no one.
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The last really good villian I can recall was Anton Chigurh, in "No Country For Old Men". He never raised his voice or got angry the whole movie, and was absolutely terrifying!!!!
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It's like they think the Joker is so iconic because he's funny. So they make funny villains hoping it will have the same effect. Completely missing the point...that the Joker is the one clown you wouldn't dare laugh at.
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"What Happened To Our Villains?" They went into politics and journalism.
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With villains like Darth Vader, Hannibal Lector and the T1000, we were spoiled for amazing villains in our younger years. I'd almost forgotten how powerful a good strong competent villain could be. But they should be as truly iconic as the hero that has to face off against them. The T1000 was one of my all time top villains, because if you arent all in on the fight, you will absolutely lose and fast.
