Scene I'd like to see.
Jan. 17th, 2015 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wingedbeastHero: You'll never get away with this!
Villain: Oh, but I will. I will become more powerful. I will change the very nature of the world!
Hero: You want to play God!?!
Villain (goes on ignoring the Hero's question): And, when I have changed the world, the minimum wage will be a living wage and anybody who works will be able to afford a comfortable living and to build a savings!
Hero: Wait... what?
Villain: Can you see it? A world where a college education is the guaranteed right of anybody, regardless of financial conditions, paid for by a progressive tax structure!
Hero: I can, actually.
Villain: It will be glorious! No one will, ever again, be denied the possibility of their ambitions on the basis of class or race again.
Hero: Which side am I fighting for again?
Villain: Oh, but I will. I will become more powerful. I will change the very nature of the world!
Hero: You want to play God!?!
Villain (goes on ignoring the Hero's question): And, when I have changed the world, the minimum wage will be a living wage and anybody who works will be able to afford a comfortable living and to build a savings!
Hero: Wait... what?
Villain: Can you see it? A world where a college education is the guaranteed right of anybody, regardless of financial conditions, paid for by a progressive tax structure!
Hero: I can, actually.
Villain: It will be glorious! No one will, ever again, be denied the possibility of their ambitions on the basis of class or race again.
Hero: Which side am I fighting for again?
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Date: 2015-01-20 06:57 pm (UTC)Did you create this as an ironic satire to how Hollywood's [usually white] heroes are always somehow never really for the real-life underdog (for example, they're for the oppressed white male geeky nerd...but never for the actually oppressed brown Muslim woman). And thus, they merely reinforce the status quo...
...While, usually, the villain they fight is seeking to upend the status quo and actually help simply by definition of being in opposition to the hero?
Did I get that right? Because this is just sick clever right here! Gah! :D :D :D
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Date: 2015-01-20 07:04 pm (UTC)Generally, it's about villains that have villainy as their general concept. "When I rule, everybody will..." and... well... how do you get minions with that kind of sales pitch?
It's more a reaction to that classical type of action/adventure/Bond/Fantasy kind of trope where the upright, upstanding, tall, good looking hero steps forth in defense of the Kingdom/powerstructure/whoever's in charge.
Because, seriously, every time I see people fighting for the kingdom as it is, I just think that this is a world in need of a democratic revolution.
I thought the same thing about A:tLA and it's hard not to think that a *lot* with regards to Game of Thrones.
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Date: 2015-01-20 07:26 pm (UTC)But this is still so awesome and insightful! :D