Movie villains. Theyre there to be booed and hissed. They challenge our heroes and create insurmountable odds. They also, quite often, find time to explain their full motives and plans to the hero thus making their defeat even more predictable. Its a hard life being a movie villain. What if we actually sided with the villain though? What if we actually looked past the hockey mask and considered their reasons for acting the way they do? How can we relate to muscle bound heroes sent to protect us normal people? There they are, all rippling muscles and carefully coiffured hair, throwing another carefully scripted one liner as they heroically rescue some stupid man or woman thats accidentally got in their way to protecting the earth. Thats why we need to re-evaluate the villains because, well, theyre us. Let us look past arguments about good and evil and simply re-assess the movie villains motives. Actually, let us give the final word of this introduction to that erstwhile philosopher, Barney Stinson, as he considers his favourite film, The Karate Kid: Its the story of a hopeful, young karate enthusiast whose dreams and moxie take him all the way to the All Valley Karate Championship. Of course, sadly he loses in the final round to that nerd kid. But, he learns an important lesson about gracefully accepting defeat. When I watch The Karate Kid I root for the karate kid, Johnny Lawrence from the Cobra Kai dojo. Get your head out of your ass Lily. So, for all you Lilys out there, here are ten more movie villains with motives we can relate to.
