Rooting For The Bad Guys

Historically in movies the audience has always rooted for the good guys and we usually always want to see good overcome evil. This is just something ingrained in us as human beings. The villains in movies may be better characters or better acted than the hero in a lot of cases (Alan Rickman in Die Hard/Robin Hood, and Heath Ledger’s The Joker to name but a few) but in the end we usually always want the good guys to beat the bad guys and win.

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