We watched Heat tonight, a typical cop thriller with Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer and John Voight. Oh and a young Natalie Portman. It was the usual deal, a flawed hero cop hunting down a flawed criminal. Thing is, like many of these films, I usually end up rooting for the bad guy, despite knowing that Hollywood rarely lets them win (Oops! Sorry to spoil the ending, but the film is like thirteen years old!).
It’s not that I glamorise the bad guys, but I can usually empathise with their aims, despite the controversial stuff they pull to get there. Besides it’s always nice to play the villain, and contrary to what my lecturer said about not being able to play the bad guy in games, I find it REALLY FUN!. In Black & White the first thing I did was fling those needy villagers into the sea..build a boat? Pah! Try swimming- woosh! Also let’s try to forget the countless Sims who’ve starved, drowned, burnt to death, and gone insane with me as a landlord. Or the innocent villages my armies have burned to the ground on our march to victory – well, we can’t have any enemy sympathisers can we? Think nothing of all those poor Mudokons blindly following my lead, or all those helpless inhabitants of Liberty City or Tamriel that i’ve bludgeoned to death for the sake of it (and a few gold coins).
I’m sure there’s many more but you can’t expect me to remember them all, after all it’s hard being an evil mastermind you know?;-)
