tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089597213803140907.post7744802954101636688..comments2023-10-24T11:43:18.859-04:00Comments on The Chaw Shop: Bad Cop, Bad CopThe Chawmongerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08817936739545420642noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089597213803140907.post-40510595579625655182010-07-07T17:34:03.734-04:002010-07-07T17:34:03.734-04:00Hey Snowden, I absolutely agree about the power of...Hey Snowden, I absolutely agree about the power of the origin-less villain (I'd offer No Country for Old Men's Anton Chigurh as another example). I think it can be interesting to delve into a villainous character's psychology too, if it's done well -- but that naturally makes it more of a character study than a glimpse of something totally unknown and terrifying. Maybe the problem with this movie was it tried to have it both ways.<br /><br />Anyway, thanks so much for reading and commenting!The Chawmongerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08817936739545420642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1089597213803140907.post-20130853332128463192010-07-07T10:38:29.684-04:002010-07-07T10:38:29.684-04:00Totally agree with your take on the movie. The fla...Totally agree with your take on the movie. The flashbacks trying to explain his crazy-tude didn't make any sense. They were much easier to understand in the book.<br /><br />So many horror and crime movies have that knee-jerk impulse to give psychopaths and sociopaths a reason for being pyscho- and socio-pathic. But you know what's most frightening? When there is no explanation. Excluding the mess that is "Hannibal Rising"--he's a cannibal because the Nazis ate his sister, of course!--Dr. Lecter was so frightening because he had no motivation. (I think there was a line in Scream to this effect).<br /><br />Another of cinema's best villains, the Joker in The Dark Knight, worked so well because he didn't have an origin story, other than the ones he made up to play with his victims. He was an absolute. That's the scariest kind of crazy.Snowden Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08419702586086990939noreply@blogger.com