I’m still alive! The reason for this bit of radio silence was that apart from (and during – no rest for the wicked) an amazing vacation in Italy, I’ve been swamped with various projects for university. Spoilers: it’s about villains. Surprise!
There’s always some drama about violence in film, violence in games, violence everywhere. And yes, in some cases we do seem to have been numbed to seeing violence on-screen; it’s not that big a deal anymore. But what always gains a universal reaction of horror and disgust is violence directed against animals – the cuter,…
I figured it’d be appropriate, too, to mention villains that I haven’t actually studied academically – and therefore, due to time issues and what not, this will only be a villain snippet, but it’s a good way to introduce an interesting character anyway: The Cave is a puzzle-platform-adventure game and was released in 2013 for Xbox360, PS3,…
As far as villains go, the Joker is probably amongst my favourite, although of course I cannot really pick ‘favourites’ in that area as I am fascinated by almost all villains, provided they do not fall in my ‘repulsive’ spectrum. (And ironically, I wrote a thesis about those as well. Go figure.)
This wouldn’t be a month of villains if I did not start with a very significant one, one that sends shivers down your spine when you’re thinking of him: of course I’m talking about Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Before starting the proper ‘Imperial March’ craziness and talking about specific villains, it might be a good idea to start in a more general manner in the sense of ‘Why villains, and what are we doing here anyway?’ Yes, why indeed? To be brief: because they are amazing, awesome, horrifying, and appeal to our darkest…
It is March again and, just like last year, that means that it’ll be a month of productivity and villainy – at least in planning, we’ll see how that works out in practice with everything going on at university… But most of the newer followers will be confused now and go, ‘What the heck?’ Do…
