My First Post

Hello and welcome to my first post. I am a writer...of sorts and of late I have been trying to write a story about a man who gets conscripted but instead runs away from his responsibilities, well that's just boring. So I have decided to write about something that I really like. What I really like in a film or novel is a good villain. I hear that villains come in three flavours. There are the sympathetic ones like Darth Vader or Roy from Blade runner. These are the ones that you feel sorry for and hope will turn out good in the end. There are the really bad ones you hope get their butts kicked by the hero, such as hmmmm, that guy, you know that guy from Dune- baron whats his face with the... Harkonin! Yeah, Baron Harkonin. Lastly there are the villains that are so cool you want them to overcome the hero. Let's see that's probably the Joker in the new batman film and like maybe Aku the Great Shapshifting Master of Darkness!!! So my main protagonist in my new story is a villain and hopefully if I do a good job he will be the third class of villain. He is a vampire in Victorian England. Vampires are awesome and I love a good villain character so why not have the villain be the hero and the hero be the villain. Anyway sometimes it is hard to distinguish between the two although admittedly the guy with his fangs in the pretty girl with the white dress now turned red is most likely a villain. A story without a villain can be good, I was just telling Imy this morning about a film called 'children of men', no villain in that story, just a crazy world, same as gattaca really, society is the villain in those films I guess. I was pleasantly suprised recently by a series called 'dexter', the main character is a serial killer. I thought this was so odd. You see these crazy killer villains in films like 'Red Dragon' and 'Silence of the Lambs' and they're great to hate, but a sympathetic killer, you got to be joking. The way they make him sympathetic and likeable is that he satisfies his murderous desires by killing other bad guys. He is also very cool in that he's smart. Anyway I thought it was cool how they managed to make a serial killer a likeable and workable protagonist even though I would hate to meet this guy on the street and definetly not in a dark alley. Hmmmm I think the topic of this post is villains in film and literature. Yes. I love a good villain.