On the way to the theater I couldn’t help but remember how disappointing Hayden Christenson’s (name is close if not exact) transformation into Darth Vader was in the first three (second three, because as a meme has it “in charge Yoda was”.) As several reviewers I read noted, he didn’t get evil so much as pouty, peevish, and bratty.
Being me, what occurred to me is that it would have been much more intellectually satisfying if he had been corrupted by ideology more directly. It is difficult to get people to do things they consider evil, but easy to get good people to do or at least countenance evil they have been trained to view as good.
That would be a script I would find it interesting to write. How do you seduce a good person into views which conform with evil, all while calling them good? They did if memory serves invoke “safety”, but I seem to recall the Dark Side was always the Dark Side.
To do the thing properly, you have to call it the Bright Light, the connection with God, the right way, the path of righteousness.
This is certainly what Muslims do, and certainly what most other religions have done throughout history, including notably Judaism and Christianity.
Seriously: by what process of imbecility do you get militancy and war particularly out of Christianity and Buddhism?
The id is not sex. I don’t see this. It is not violence per se. It is unprocessed developmental trauma, to the extent it exists.
Annakin Skywalker would have had major developmental issues to work with, and buttons to be pushed, but the whole thing–and yes I admit I am a crotchety old (working on it) man who is reading too much into an escapist epic–was done poorly on a psychological level.
And the new bad guy just seems like an emotionally undeveloped brat.
I’ll have something to say about the psychopath Deadpool after a while. He is exactly what people need and want right now. I can say that with some confidence. Whether or not that is healthy is another issue.
We are sick, are we not? And do sick people not do what sick people do?
Yes, yes they do.