At an early age, the worldview is not yet fully established, and the world is black and white in the eyes of most children. And due to the limitations of children's knowledge and experience, their vision will not be too long-term, and they often only focus on the interests of the moment and ignore the long-term development in thinking.
Film and television dramas and animations have captured the characteristics of children, and usually choose an optimistic and brave personality in the shaping of the protagonist, and will not think about the layout too long and too far in the face of things, often bright and straightforward, even if nothing is achieved, it will not break the image and principles, in line with the image of the child's subconscious self. There is also room for the design of the villain, not a bad person for no reason, perhaps with similar conditions to the protagonist, but the suffering given by the outside world is indeed hellish compared to the protagonist. In such an environment, he had to blacken to protect himself, so that he was not understood by the protagonist, and became the target of the attack that needed to be destroyed.
"Although it is said that there is no suffering of others, do not persuade others to be good." "But where does the child understand this, just verbally." In their eyes, you have changed, you have done a bad thing, and you are a bad person! The screenwriter grasps this psychology of the children, so that they can smoothly follow the protagonist all the way to adventure, experience bondage, friendship, justice and so on.
The other kind of villain takes a different path from the protagonist from the beginning, without a similar birth of the protagonist, no similar environment, and perhaps a sad encounter, they have a completely different concept from the protagonist's origin and are not understood by the protagonist, and thus are divided into objects that need to be destroyed, thus becoming the whetstone on the way for the protagonist to improve himself and implement justice.
When being a child, you don't think too carefully about the villain's background and personality, bad people are bad people, where there is no reason. So he followed the protagonist all the way to kill, to wipe out the injustice and evil of the world, only to feel that his heart was incomparably happy.
However, when the child gradually grows up, the understanding of the world is more perfect, and he gradually understands that he cannot become a person like the protagonist, and even as the child grows, the personality defects of some protagonists gradually enlarge and become the part that is not liked. On the contrary, the personality of the villain is more perfect, and their experiences that may be similar to reality make us feel empathy when we grow up, and find a shadow of ourselves in them.
Or maybe they think clearly that they are in the same situation as them, and maybe they can't make a better choice. Truly able to appreciate "without the suffering of others, do not persuade others to be good", our hearts have been grown to a certain extent, more aware of reality, understand that they can not become the protagonist of the person Villain is more like the reflection of the real adult world, and at the same time, for the behavior of some villains can better understand its long-term significance.
When we get older, we may have become the same people as the villains, the same experience of social beatings, involuntarily, and the consideration of things is close to them, paying more attention to long-term interests. Thinking back on the behavior of the protagonist who once stood on the moral high ground and judged, I will only feel that my former self was naïve and stupid, and after all, it was just a lost childhood.
At this moment, our understanding of this work may have been sublimated, and he has become a classic in our hearts and cannot be replaced, although in the eyes of people who are younger than us and the older generation, they also feel that it is so childish and incomprehensible, but at least in our hearts he is a classic.
Sadly, after we grow up, maybe it is the change of our own state of mind, or maybe it is the combination of the film and television industry and the fast pace of the current era, the personality shaping of the villain is simplified, and most of the villains in the anime have lost the meaning of the original bad, there is no reason and simply bad, simply against the protagonist, and thus eliminated. Although this part of the work can make children get a certain degree of pleasure, but in the end it is only a child, for us who have become adults, such works may have good educational significance, but it has missed a part of the thinking and soul. The lack of a charm that allows us to look back at him again when we grow up.
The reason why the classic has become a classic may be because he has grasped the psychological characteristics and needs of various parts of the human growth process, so that we can find people who are similar to their own values no matter when we look back, perhaps the anime works need a villain to promote the development of the plot, but each character has its own involuntariness, when we can understand him, can appreciate and even like him, maybe we have really grown up.
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