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[kastor-disaster.livejournal.com]

Punishment or redemption? Your preference please.

((I've noticed something strange about villains in classic stories versus the stories of today. I was just wondering if people generally like to see their villains redeemed or punished for what they've done. Any answers are appreciated))

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[vanitasimmortal.livejournal.com]

I'd like to believe anyone can be redeemed.

[knowthenbreak.livejournal.com]

Sometimes redemption isn't possible. Other times, it isn't deserved.

[mrsharker.livejournal.com]

Life is often about both...

[marylyns-murder.livejournal.com]

Punished.

[[ooc: I don't know... that's a good point though... hmmm]]

[kastor-disaster.livejournal.com]

((It was a thought I stumbled upon this morning while obsessing over a film from the forties. In the original novel, the villain (somewhat) redeems himself by making the choice to save as many drowning people as he can though he knows it's going to kill him. In the film, they punish the villain by ending it with him getting confronted by the hero and shot.

They also changed the ending of Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera so that the Phantom was more suitably punished.

I guess it's more of a film thing than literature, but in vintage films, they seemed to love seeing the villains punished rather than seeing them try to make up for it)).

[earlier-tonight.livejournal.com]

Redemption's nice, but punishment's more believable.