Turning Villains into Heroes | The All-New Joker, Cruella & Maleficent

🔥The first 1,000 people to use this link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: https://skl.sh/anaisabel07211! 🔥 A dog-loving Cruella De Vil - whoda thought. 😂 Join me as I dive into the emerging new trend of “sympathetic villain” movies, how these films successfully have you side with some of fiction’s most hateful icons – and whether these backstories benefit or betray their original characters. Featuring spoilers for Maleficent (2014), Joker (2019), and Cruella (2021). 💀 - 🕥TIMESTAMPS:🕜 0:00 – Intro 2:52 – Rise of the “Villain’s Origin Story” 5:07 – “Trauma” as a sympathetic backstory 8:57 – What draws us to a “villain’s” story in the first place? 10:07 – Reframing the villain (how you’re made to root for them) 12:40 – Ad time! 14:38 – Benefits of a “sympathetic” villain 15:58 – Revamping Cruella, Joker & Maleficent 18:50 – The flaws of Cruella & Maleficent 20:50 – Joker and accidentally vindicating the “bad guy” 23:28 – Does a “sympathetic origin story” ruin a villain’s character? 25:23 – Final notes - ✨ FOLLOW ME ON MY SOCIALS AND STUFF ✨ Instagram: https://bit.ly/34hT1I7 Facebook: https://bit.ly/2NktVSe DeviantArt: https://bit.ly/2WtTKmX - All third-party clips and images are Fair Use/Fair Dealing under copyright law (transformative under criticism/review/commentary). Australian copyright law on “Fair Dealing”: https://www.copyright.org.au/acc_prod... US copyright law on "Fair Use": https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/mo... I do not own Joker (2019). All rights belong to Warner Bros. Pictures. I do not own Maleficent (2014) and Cruella (2021). All rights belong to Walt Disney Pictures. - #cruella #joker #maleficent #villainoriginstory #sympatheticvillain