Villains are the new heros

Rating: 9/10 (20 April 2016)

Anyone can see that villains have become the 'New Heroes' in today's cinema. There are countless examples but one of the biggest is Norman in 'Psycho'. How are filmmakers able to successfully use villains as the hero? There are a couple articles that look into this question a little more, it also looks into why they use the hero. The articles "Movie villains are more interesting than movie heroes" by Alana Pedalino and "Villains and Antiheros" by Lisa Agnew might begin to help us understand the producers reasoning for taking out the hero.
In this article "Movie villains are more interesting than movie heros" goes into more of the villain part. This Article talks about the purpose of a villain in cinema. There's a quote from this article, "We're supposed to love hating the villain, yet we can't help hating that we love him." Says Pedalino.
This article might be able to better help people understand why filmmakers are using the anti hero strategy and why it actually can work. Pedalino tells us that the filmmakers are playing more towards the real life scenarios. While watching the hero defeat the villain is satisfying it is not real life, and people soon forget their feelings towards the film. Whereas watching a scenario where the villain either defeats the hero or gets very close to doing so, leaves us with mixed feelings.