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July 31, 2008
Movie Watching Tip: Who is the Villain?
A way to tell the agenda of a film is to consider what kind of person the villain is. A way for filmmakers to slip in an agenda is to identify the villain of the story with a particular group. By identifying the bad guy with a particular political group (normally Republican), job (normally corporate executives) or social group (normally Christian) the filmmaker can paint all of the people of that group with the villainous acts of the bad guy.

While it is obvious that all groups are capable of evil, it is common for the villain of a film to be a representative for a group. In this way, he represents a way of thinking.

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posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 12:00 PM




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Anonymous pgepps said...

...one of my favorites is the book-to-movie transition that changes the ethnic identity of the villains to make them white, male, usually Southern, often Christian...happened with one of the Clancy-novel movies, and of course in Silence of the Lambs Dr. Lecter sprouts a Southern accent utterly out of keeping with the character's background--which Harris keeps up with by introducing a loathsome Southern white Christian male (who's secretly gay) in Hannibal.

August 1, 2008 at 8:04 AM  

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