Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-2175012-20171205173216/@comment-27023843-20171206001616

Yes. I miss the time where the villains were just straight up villains throughout the whole film. Them trying their best to antagonize the main protagonist. Sometimes, we the audience just love to enjoy our dark sides. We enjoyed those Disney villains such as Captain Hook, Maleficent, Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Yzma, Hades, Cruella de Vil, Dr Facilier, Judge Frollo, etc. Same goes for Pixar with villains like Skinner, Syndrome, Sid, Lotso, etc. Nowadays, Disney is just relying on this surprise villain-trope. I do understand why. Most of the time, we never got the time to root for the good guys because we never felt that connected to them like we did to the villains. The whole idea of Disney movies is that we should be preferring the heroes, not the villains. So Disney decided that they should be spending less time with the villains and more time with the heroes. Remember Sleeping Beauty? Many people don't like the main characters like the prince, fairies or Aurora, yet they praise the movie for it's villain, Maleficent. This is why Disney chose to just go with surprise villains, where they get to be more focused on the main characters.