Monday, 28 February 2011

Inspirations and similarities our antagonist with other antagonist/twisted protagonists of other films

The Joker from Batman
The joker is a twisted character who laughs and make amusement of causing mayhem that causes lives of the public. 'Throughout his comic book appearances, the Joker is portrayed as a master criminal whose characterization has varied. The original and currently dominant image is of a highly intelligent psychopath with a warped, sadistic sense of humor...' extracted from the wikipedia page of  the term 'Joker (comics)'.
Our antagonist does have an 'excuse' for his harsh/heartless actions but he still is similar to the joker as he's behavior shows he  has a sadistic humor because he likes to talk with his victims and inform them what he's about to do them. This not only is twisted but an extreme example of evil in a human being as his victims have to make the decision whether or not to believe him. When the decision is made both effects are too harsh on the victim as they can  either believe him and  try to defend themselves like our victim (Tasha) does and fail to save their lives and be oppressed by inferiority as he pleasures in slaughtering them. Or they choose not to believe him and are choked by shock,stupidity and vulnerability all at once. This makes the victim not only have a horrible experience physically but mentally too,making our antagonist a feared character by the audience as he creates the image of an unsettling nice approaching teenager.

Heath ledger, acting as the batman showed the joker to be a fear superior character who is the most threatening person in Gotham city however has no known identity, as well as he shows no sign of fear ironically. Where as he is the main enemy of the Batman (the symbol of fearful good) in Gotham, its incredible that he doesn't care about anything not even poverty as he burns piles of million of dollars and makes him a horrific character as he is a symbol that is more than only a main nemesis of Batman but a symbol of tragedy.

    Our antagonist chases his victim down a public tunnel doing the early workplaces approaching hours of the morning, the fact that the audience can see her clearly running from danger in a well lit tunnel represents how easily she should be seen by passing commuters. Knowing this our antagonist still shows no sign of respect of the passing commuters and the chance of one of them attempting to save his new found victim but continues to be engrossed in the demented joy of the destruction of his victim. Both our antagonist and Heath's joker show no sign of human values of qualities as they both make insanity and overwhelming inhumanity their character and make it 'fashionable' as if they do not seem to contain any morals. However both characters get offered desirable things that so people many class as a treasure refuse it so it could be concluded that they both have standards and self-satisfaction and aren't enslaved by the evil they contain.


Hit-man and the Spirit
Hitman and the spirit have distinctive similarities in their appearances the spirit has a hat,a mask and hair but that is the only difference between them. Despite their race they look similar because they both wear black coats, black trousers, shirts and red ties. The original costume design for our antagonist consists of the same clothes the only difference between our antagonist and the film characters are the coats design as Martin intended to have the coat to be torn at the bottom that seemed to be the scratches of a wild animal. However as discussed before there was changes made because the common boundaries needed to be broken.




Freddy Krueger
Freddy Krueger is a vengeful character and takes out his bad appearances of a bad childhood and uses it as an excuse to cause harm and horror on the innocent. He is largely exaggerated as his intemperance is disfigured form that of a normal human being and will be a referenced horror character for years to come.


Our antagonist is a vengeful character who acts by the same principle he reminisces on his harsh experiences as a child and allows his experiences to be the fuel for his 'hobbies'.  

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