And that would be my problem with an Evil Villain. The more chlichéd an enemy is, the more stereotyped you draw him, the easier is it for the good guys to defeat him and maybe even kill him.
If you have an evil Evil then nobody aks if he really deserved what came to him, it is simply accepted. The good guys don't have to second-guess himself, they just did the only thing possible.
That is so '80s - and so boring.
I like it when the characters and the viewers second-guess their actions, aks themselves if they could have done things differently and I like it when users like on this board argue with one another if action A by person B was really justified.
For example: While I liked Superman Returns in general I though that Lex was way too unrealistic with his "I'll kill billions and I don't care approach.". Why? Because, ultimately it makes no sense. Even if he had killed Supi, a trained SEAL squad could have easily landed on the island and taken him out. Who should have protected him? Dr. Kutner? If you want to takeover the world, you have to do it with subtlety and with style and not like a bad caricature from a '60s Bond movie.
I always thought that Michael Rosenbaum was better than Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey. But the reason for that was mainly because he wasn't an evil Evil Villain.
If you have an evil Evil then nobody aks if he really deserved what came to him, it is simply accepted. The good guys don't have to second-guess himself, they just did the only thing possible.
That is so '80s - and so boring.
I like it when the characters and the viewers second-guess their actions, aks themselves if they could have done things differently and I like it when users like on this board argue with one another if action A by person B was really justified.
For example: While I liked Superman Returns in general I though that Lex was way too unrealistic with his "I'll kill billions and I don't care approach.". Why? Because, ultimately it makes no sense. Even if he had killed Supi, a trained SEAL squad could have easily landed on the island and taken him out. Who should have protected him? Dr. Kutner? If you want to takeover the world, you have to do it with subtlety and with style and not like a bad caricature from a '60s Bond movie.
I always thought that Michael Rosenbaum was better than Gene Hackman and Kevin Spacey. But the reason for that was mainly because he wasn't an evil Evil Villain.
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