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Why All The Sudden Sympathy For The Villain In Movies?
In recent years, as movie theaters and streaming services have flooded with new content, audiences have noticed a pattern in their options: So many new movies draw from existing stories. Some of these are remakes of classic films, like Disney’s live-action versions of its iconic princess movies, but others take existing characters that we don’t know much about and give them backstories. No one gets this treatment more than the villains.
By Reagan Motsinger3 min read
Last year alone featured two major movie prequels starring antagonists. In November, theaters were packed for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the prequel story about young President Snow and his experience with the Games 64 years before Katniss came on the scene.