| Term Paper Title | Movie Villains |
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Movie Villains
What really is a villain?
Villains have been alive forever, there is no way to easily detected
them or stopping them. They come in all shapes and sizes from animals to little
children to even space aliens. Each villain has his or her own particular style,
usually greed. Another big reason for there evil acts is because of revenge,
revenge can turn innocent people in to cold blooded killers. The term used to
represent villains is antagonist, or someone who opposes the protagonist or hero
of the story. Movie villains are not just plainly the main enemy in a movie as
in Nightmare on Elm Street series or on the Friday the 13th series, but
sometimes it is just a little enemy, sometimes killed off, that is the villain.
Sometimes the protagonist turns out to be the biggest antagonist in the story,
like in the movie La Strata. Villains usually meet their end by death, but
sometimes their fate can be worse than that, like in the movie Time After Time a
character call Dr. Stevenson, who is also know as Jack the Ripper, meets his
death by traveling to the farthest time ever in the face of the earth, probably
when the earth is completely destroyed. Other villains meet their doom with
being put in jail. There are a few movies in which the villains actually comes
out victorious, as in the movie Chinatown. Villains or antagonist are the
spotlights of most movies.
What is the origin of villains?
Villains have been around since evil has walked the earth. Movies have
made evil from all the different ages to come out, for instance Messala in Ben
Hur is from the early AD years and Toecutter from the movie Mad Max lives in the
late 1990's. Probably the earliest known villains would be the serpent in the
garden of eve. It was the first villains by coaxing Adam and Eve into eating
the apple. From there more villains came, from Egypt's Pharaohs to Chinese
emperors. One movie era of villains was villains from the medieval times or a
little earlier, like Vikings and evil knights. More modern movie villains were
Nazi's, mad scientists, psychopaths, gangsters, people with super human powers,
and spies. Villains have evolved devilishly throughout the ages.
What are some famous villains?
There are millions of villains throughout movie history, some stand out
more than others. One villains I think anyone can recognize is the wicked witch
of the west from The Wizard of Oz, she is so sinister it makes her stand out and
also everyone likes her flying monkeys. One villains from biblical times is
Dathan from The Ten Commandments, who is the sinister helper of the Pharaoh
Ramses that tries to kill Moses. Dathan meets his despise by being engulfed in
a trench than makes him fall into a place worse than any other place in the
world. A fairly old villain is Long John Silver from Treasure Island. Long
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