Hmm, I wonder why we like our evil characters to be mythic? And not human. We want them to be born evil with no back story. No human side. No justification for their evil ways. (Interesting exception: villain in Black Panther, realistically, had ideological justification.)https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1070372174018400256 …
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In real world evil obviously doesn’t work that way. Evil isn’t born. It’s created. See Hannah Arendt’s eichmann in Jerusalem. Some facts debated. But really seems eichmann, and most of nazis, Hitler included, started much less sadistic/anti-Semitic.
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And also morality isn’t always as as objective as we like to think. Hitler, and many of his followers, thought they were acting morally. And had well articulated justifications for their evil. (As did slave holders.)
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So why do we paint our villains this way? As innately and “unjustifiably” villanous?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
"We" don't. The evolution from Anakin to Darth Vader had deep integrity. What was wrong with the prequels was the transition from archetypal psychology to Hollywood stereotypes. Everything happens for a reason, except Jar Jar Binks.
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Yeah, I agree, many other reasons to hate Star Wars prequels. But many films, especially in sci fi/fantasy genre, and superheroes and ...have villains that are innately and unjustifiably evil. And I think this fits most people’s lay psychology of evil. no?
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Replying to @Moshe_Hoffman
I actually don't think that Darth Vader was evil. Every working, peaceful society is built around a death star that takes violence off the table. Anakin decided to sacrifice himself and build it, after his mother was murdered by barbarians, and he lost his wife and children.
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Replying to @Plinz
But he did it just out of anger (eg when found his mom dying)!
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Back then, he did not understand his reaction. Later, he realized that the barbarians did not kill his mother because they were oppressed or unloved, but because they could. He decided to incentivize them to stop killing the mothers of little boys.
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