The Sympathetic Villain, Why The Bad Guy Is Taking Over
Which superpower is the greatest of them all: super strength or invisibility On our collaborative Netflix Film Club series Take Two, we re answering this question through the movie Thunder Force: Watch it now on the Netflix Film Club YouTube channel , Today weve moved beyond The Age of the Antihero to center someone even worse: The Sympathetic Villain. Increasingly, were seeing stories with a villainprotagonist, who might not be contrasted with any likable, featured hero. A story about a Sympathetic Villain is a bold experiment, but it might not always work. Yet at their best, the Sympathetic Villain is a means for articulating a fascinating critique of society and its mores as we can see from some enduring cinema classics who were actually about sympathetic villains all along. When it succeeds, the Sympathetic Villain story makes us see ourselves in the villain and see the villainy in ourselves. Support The Take: Shop our Limited Edition Merch:
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