For this week, I chose to tackle Watchmen because I had watched the film based on the comic before.
I love Veidt as a anti-villain, or a villain who you can almost sympathize with. These are definitely some of my favorite types of characters. You can see the logic behind their moves and it appeals to people because they don't do this out of malice or boredom, like the Joker, but because they think it'll lead to a better world or society.
I think writing these complex characters, anti-heroes and anti-villains, is one of the things that helped reinvent superheroes. For instance, Wolverine isn't really a hero, he's more of an anti-hero, and this really helps appeal to people. These anti-heroes struggle a lot more with their own past traumas and choices, compared to superheroes of the Golden Age where they felt like all superheroes must be absolutely righteous and have the moral highway.
These characters are more three dimensional, and it's easier for people to relate to them but also be interested in them. Not everyone will choose the perfect choice of somehow stopping the train in the age old train about to run over people problem. And sometimes the villain wins, too. I love these more complicated views into the super hero and villain world, with movies like Logan, which I also absolutely loved. Veidt is also an interesting person, because he was all the things to create a "perfect" superhero, but then he began to think beyond the typical superhero box of stopping middling criminals and began to think about the world and society as a whole.
I love Veidt as a anti-villain, or a villain who you can almost sympathize with. These are definitely some of my favorite types of characters. You can see the logic behind their moves and it appeals to people because they don't do this out of malice or boredom, like the Joker, but because they think it'll lead to a better world or society.
I think writing these complex characters, anti-heroes and anti-villains, is one of the things that helped reinvent superheroes. For instance, Wolverine isn't really a hero, he's more of an anti-hero, and this really helps appeal to people. These anti-heroes struggle a lot more with their own past traumas and choices, compared to superheroes of the Golden Age where they felt like all superheroes must be absolutely righteous and have the moral highway.
These characters are more three dimensional, and it's easier for people to relate to them but also be interested in them. Not everyone will choose the perfect choice of somehow stopping the train in the age old train about to run over people problem. And sometimes the villain wins, too. I love these more complicated views into the super hero and villain world, with movies like Logan, which I also absolutely loved. Veidt is also an interesting person, because he was all the things to create a "perfect" superhero, but then he began to think beyond the typical superhero box of stopping middling criminals and began to think about the world and society as a whole.
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