this is true if you don’t count people as villains who are “just doing their job” or “just running a business” or “just enforcing the law”
Fiction villains that are nuanced, complex, and relatable are also highly unrealistic. Real-life villains are more often caricaturally evil, with no redeeming qualities -- driven entirely by narcissism, greed, and disdain for others.
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We need more movies where the villain is a bureaucrat who sits in meetings. Most of the action would take place in one conference room, like in 12 Angry Men
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Relatedly, as Simone Weil wrote: “Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
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