XPost: alt.mexico, alt.movies   
   From: invalid@address.com   
      
   >>When you're right, you're right. The bad guys used to be Russians. Then   
   >>> they became Germanic neo-Nazis. Then they became terrorists -- but not   
   >>> Arab terrorists, European terrorists (Die Hard, etc). Now they are white   
   >>> mercenaries for major corporations. Hollywood has no honesty, no guts, and   
   >>> no imagination.   
   >   
   >   
   > Why do we need bad guys?   
   > The example of overcoming problems by peaceful means seems to not even have   
   > been thought of.   
   > Surely the people who are the bad guys in real life have their issues which   
   > caused them to make poor decisions for survival in a world gone wrong for   
   > them.   
   > If perhaps we thought kindly in the general population, then we might   
   > encourage the poor underprivledged which turned to crime to better   
   > themselves. But we would have to know how to do that, it is so much easier   
   > to blame them and punish them for the act of fate which befell them.   
      
      
   There have to be bad guys, someone the audience can feel morally   
   superior to, so that when the good guys fight them, there is a   
   desire that they prevail. That's drama. The question is, do the   
   bad guys always have to be whites of European ancestry? And if so,   
   just why is that the case?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)