...instead of the heroes, now? "Malificent","Cruella", "Birds of Prey", Suckicide Squad.
shareThis type of post is the 2021 equivalent of old people in the 60s-80s saying that Rock music was about Devil worship (yes, I did capitalize Devil because I worship Him)
shareIn Birds of Prey, only one of them was a villain. As for Suicide Squad, the concept is several decades old and not nearly a new trend in comic-based franchises. It's also not a trend in Hollywood since villain protagonists have been around as long as "talkies" have been around.
shareI think (and I could be wrong) that OP's point is that the ratio of villain-worship to hero-worship has changed, and that Hollyweird is promoting more villains as "good guys" rather than good guys as "good guys".
It's not an insignificant point, to be honest. I, too, have noticed that Disney seems to have an infatuation with moralizing the villains in recent times.
Other studios seem to be following a similar pattern.
I think Suicide Squad wouldn't stand out so much if we didn't have so many other "assassins as heroes" in movies as of late, such as John Wick (which I actually like), Hotel Artemis, Protege, Anna, Ava, Lucy, Kate, Jolt, Noir, and Gunpowder Milkshake, to name a few. I think many of them also forego any sort of moral turnabout that used to be the case for these films, like Leon: The Professional, or The Punisher, or Road To Perdition.
Movies like Crank really stood out when it first came out because there weren't many like it. But these days it seems like every other action film is about a female assassin.
Back in the day, we also had a lot of hero movies, (and not just the super hero kind) in addition to the traditional noir crime tales and action-thrillers. But heroes (outside of cape fare) seem to be in short supply these days.
Like have been already say Villains as protagonist is no something new in fact villains and antiheros are of the most popular and memorable protagonist in movie story, Tyler Durden, Joker, Alex Delarge, Scarface, The Corleone family all of the are interesting, Walter White. Dexter
Is even older in literature, Crime and punishment, Madame Bovary, and many others
Villains and antiheros are old as dirt
JohnSpartan embarrassing himself as usual.
shareBill Bennett declared a decade ago that the culture war was lost. He was correct of course, and the deterioration of society only continues to increase. When anyone points out any instances of this they are declared as being "stuck in the past" like the first few posts here.
shareI mean, if the culture war is lost, then anyone wanting to keep fighting ARE stuck in the past, yeah?
shareWhen the real-life ruling regime is corrupt and inept, anti-heroes become popular. With the bosses we have now in Washington, expect lots more of these films to be made.
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