@Ramya
Ramya V
@Ramya · 2:45

Have you ever rooted for the 'bad guy' in a movie?

article image placeholderGood 'Bad' Guy?
And then, of course, Tyler Durden in Fight Club. There's just so many. So I'm just wondering if any of you have found the antagonist in a movie to be far more interesting and memorable than the hero. Yeah

Thanos, Hannibal Lecter, Iceman in Top Gun, Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean...

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@DariaRia
Daria Platonova
@DariaRia · 0:07
I don't know why, but I wanted the Hannibal lecture in a series. Hannibal, to eat all the other characters
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@Tim
Tim Ereneta
@Tim · 2:12

🤔 💭

Ramia. I really like that idea that the villain thinks they are the hero of their own story. That makes so much sense. So that being said, I have two reactions to your question. One is that charismatic and sympathetic villains have existed long before movies. I'm thinking of Grindel the monster or Grindel's Mother in the epic of Baewolf. I'm thinking of Captain Hook in Peter Tan, and those were just off the top of my head
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@roomi
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 3:04
That's a very good observation, because I think a lot of people they just go into the movie theaters thinking that every movie has to be a fate or has to have happy ending. I do not believe in that. Actually, I feel like every character should have with some arc and some role in it. That is why I've always been rolling towards shows and TV series and movies that have equally balanced characters in their parts
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@NathalieM
Nathalie S. Martin
@NathalieM · 0:01
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@MysticScientist
Indy Rishi Singh
@MysticScientist · 1:55

https://youtu.be/WROjphkh3NA #videoessay

This is an awesome question. Growing up, I read a lot of comic books, and I really enjoy the foil that villains kind of, like, demonstrate. And sometimes they are like the shadow side of many heroes, and heroes have their own shadow side. So I'm going to reference a really awesome video essay I watched a while back that kind of talks about the evolution of villains
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@the_chirpy_girl
Bipasha
@the_chirpy_girl · 1:08
He has such a big role to play. Sometimes we should go in a different way and get attracted towards the bad guy. I personally get attracted towards both the bad and the good guy. Sometimes change of mind is good. It's not a bad thing. It's
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@Shaz
Shaz
@Shaz · 0:55

Yes,yes and yes!!! Bad guys in movies are hot🔥😅

So I know the question was more like contradicting moralities. And when did you think the willing was right and you're rooting for him? Well, the missed potential is that the question is, well, bad guys are hard, are incredibly attractive in most of the movies. So when it comes to with you, Jamie playing the will and actor in Towaki movie and Ion Vijay playing Victor and the classic low key in Avengers, I think it really has to do with my incredibly massive crush on Tom Hiddleston
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@Roshan
Roshan Muhammed
@Roshan · 0:31
Think it's quite normal for people to actually side with the villain in the end of films because the villain is in grave pain and no one to see anyone in pain normally. And I think that's quite a a normal reason. Also, there is films in which the features of the villain characters like their decisiveness and their problem handling capability makes you like them and also root for them that's that
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@roomi
Roomi Tarik
@roomi · 0:40

@Shaz - OMG! Nailed it, Shaz.

Now you're absolutely right. I mean, this is something I really, really like about swell. I mean, you can just put out the best steps of feelings and the intentions of someone and you can hear them out. And I can could feel it. The point you made about there won't be a hero without a willing is an excellent one. And I think no one actually thought about it until you mentioned it because the worst willing is the better a hero is and somehow vice versa
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@Wildheart
Tony Mostello
@Wildheart · 0:27
I would have to say Heath Ledger, The Joker by far the finest performance of that character. That being said, too. I don't know if he's a bad character, but Billy Bob Thornton, Carl Sling Blade, sad story
@Swell
Swell Team
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@NealD
Neal Damiano
@NealD · 2:38
I don't like the real evil bad guys, but some of the examples are like the Joker, Joaquin Phoenix's character and the most recent Joker, Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver. Even like Phoenix's character. And you were never really here. That's a more recent film with him. Brilliant performance by him. He's an antihero in that even like Nightcrawler Jake Jenlin Halls character kind of an antihero. And even his character in Donny Darko is kind of an antihero as well
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@FilmStarlet
Aces Of Fun
@FilmStarlet · 2:44

#film #Batman #Ma #Halloween #joker

For example, I never saw the original Halloween movie, but I saw the remake and the remake was trying to show a lot into the killer's perspective about how he became the way he was. And it honestly felt like a lot of the people in his life except for, of course, his baby sister were just pretty horrible to him. So it was like his way, I guess, of taking care of it
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@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 1:07
Ramya. This was a fascinating question and I would like to give you two instances. The first is the book Godfather. I have never seen the movie Godfather because I believe it cannot do justice to the book. I read the book first, so I always skipped the movie. And Don Corleone is a man that I truly rooted for. And similarly, in the movie Niagara Willow Niker was somebody I rooted for
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@Jamie
Jamie Malone
@Jamie · 0:19
That sit at the exam
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