RE: Your Villain Is Served - Middle Aged White Man
December 27, 2020 at 4:21 am
(This post was last modified: December 27, 2020 at 5:21 am by Duty.)
(December 27, 2020 at 3:30 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:(December 27, 2020 at 2:43 am)Lawz Wrote: When visiting an activism meeting last year I was struck by the organiser's shameless usage of the phrase "middle age white men" as being the source of the world's ills. Given the context of the fact the villains in virtually every film/series of the last....er...25? Years have been overwhelmingly middle age white men, perhaps that organiser's ageist, racist, sexist views are understandable...to a degree (which they doubtless lacked, by my reckoning)...but no, not really...surely...thoughts AF?
I don't know about TV shows I mean the currently most popular TV show, The Mandalorian, features a black middle aged man as a villain.
I think a lot can happen in a year and "Hollywood" is getting better on this...in a way. Case in point - in (2020) series 2 of "His Dark Materials" - a TV show from Britain based on the...anthemic...trilogy of books by Philip Pullman, the (villainous) character Lord Boreal is played by a black looking man. When I viewed this depiction it just didn't sit right...I simply couldn't view the man as being villainous. Incompetent, shallow and naïve, yes (and aren't we all?) but villainous, as he very clearly was in the books? Nope, not at all. Such and thus I have been conditioned through the culture methinks - black looking people are incapable of crime/villainy.
ETA: perhaps my viewing the character in HDM character in that way was due to that actor's, and the director's too, inability/reluctance to play a black looking man as a true blue baddy.
