Posted: Feb 04, 2020 10:55 am
Hermit wrote:Animavore wrote:I was thinking the other day of this thread, and I thought; isn't nearly every villain in every movie set up so you can cheer their death and feel like they've deserved it?
It feels like they are tapping into something rather ubiquitous in human nature.
I probably have not watched enough movies to say, but I do remember one where the person portrayed as the goody dispatched baddie with a whaling harpoon, even though he knew that the baddy had run out of ammunition, and I was thoroughly disgusted by that. It's actually the only detail I remember. And my revulsion, of course.
Dirty Harry: Dead Pool.