Villains' Discussion
Let's just discuss anything villain related. What kind of villain would you like to see in CP2077?
I think a great example of a scary villain is Anton Chigurh, from the movie No Country For Old Men:
Chigurh is great while being logical and unemotional, having morals and being unreasonable but more importantly by liking to have power and imposing his views into the world.
Let's just discuss anything villain related. What kind of villain would you like to see in CP2077?
I think a great example of a scary villain is Anton Chigurh, from the movie No Country For Old Men:
Chigurh talks to his victims in a rational way before killing them, while making them know they'll die. Thus, he gives his victims hope to convince him and beg him not to die. He creates fear. He decides the fate of his victims by playing a coin toss. He kills by chance, because of this he is known as "the personification of death" AKA "the agent of fate".
So the creative director said in a speech some years ago that the character Patrick Bateman from the movie American Psycho is a great example of a corporate villain.
Patrick Bateman is nice inspiration for a villain, his superficial charisma and lack of self awareness while at the same time being confident is the key in making a unsettling character. But, he is not as great as Chigurh..
Consider that when we talk about fear and many other fellings, what may happen is way scarier than what will happen. Expectation has a greater potential than reality, because expectation does not focus on what is certain, but rather on the uncertain, in other words it focus in possibilities. Directors and writers know this, if of course they're master emotion manipulators. The element of the unkown is powerfull in horror movies, letting the audience to imagine how the monster looks like might be scarier than actually showing the monster. The fear is based on the unkown. But it has its downsides, specially when it is ONLY based on the unkown and said monster never appears to the audience. It gets boring, given the fact that it is overused in modern stories, the audience knows for certain when a movie will only have suspense and will never show the actual monster in full detail. It's a overused cliche to never show the monster.
The real key is not hiding the monster all the time, or showing it in all scenes, in order to create the element of unsettledness , but to make both at the same time. Patrick Bateman is exactly this, because of his extremely superficial charisma it is easier for the audience to see glimpses of who he really is (even before he starts killing or talking about killing people).
Patrick Bateman is supposed to represent a psychopath, even if not in realistic terms, who is a monster using a human mask (he tries to "fit in" as he even says), a mask that is damaged and full of cracks (as made possible by his superfluous charisma), the audience then can see the monster behind the mask. The audience can see that Patrick Bateman is a psychopath when he is tries to be a part of society. This is illustrated by many scenes when he is talking to other people. It's a dellusional man who believes he is really convincing people, by acting "normal" when he's not. These characters he talks to realize there is something wrong with him, sometimes, in other ocasions they simply think he's being ironic.
Perhaps he is not that scary to the viewers, but to those around him he might be unsettling.
Patrick Bateman is nice inspiration for a villain, his superficial charisma and lack of self awareness while at the same time being confident is the key in making a unsettling character. But, he is not as great as Chigurh..
Consider that when we talk about fear and many other fellings, what may happen is way scarier than what will happen. Expectation has a greater potential than reality, because expectation does not focus on what is certain, but rather on the uncertain, in other words it focus in possibilities. Directors and writers know this, if of course they're master emotion manipulators. The element of the unkown is powerfull in horror movies, letting the audience to imagine how the monster looks like might be scarier than actually showing the monster. The fear is based on the unkown. But it has its downsides, specially when it is ONLY based on the unkown and said monster never appears to the audience. It gets boring, given the fact that it is overused in modern stories, the audience knows for certain when a movie will only have suspense and will never show the actual monster in full detail. It's a overused cliche to never show the monster.
The real key is not hiding the monster all the time, or showing it in all scenes, in order to create the element of unsettledness , but to make both at the same time. Patrick Bateman is exactly this, because of his extremely superficial charisma it is easier for the audience to see glimpses of who he really is (even before he starts killing or talking about killing people).
Patrick Bateman is supposed to represent a psychopath, even if not in realistic terms, who is a monster using a human mask (he tries to "fit in" as he even says), a mask that is damaged and full of cracks (as made possible by his superfluous charisma), the audience then can see the monster behind the mask. The audience can see that Patrick Bateman is a psychopath when he is tries to be a part of society. This is illustrated by many scenes when he is talking to other people. It's a dellusional man who believes he is really convincing people, by acting "normal" when he's not. These characters he talks to realize there is something wrong with him, sometimes, in other ocasions they simply think he's being ironic.
Perhaps he is not that scary to the viewers, but to those around him he might be unsettling.
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