I like this one–it’s the first look on Jamie (Fraser’s) face after Claire corrects him to say that “I did like it Jamie.”  after the first time.  http://putlocker.is/watch-outlander-tvshow-season-1-episode-7-online-free-putlocker.html

TODAY I thought we’d look at our media’s idea of evil and see how this tells us more of our concept.

I think first we might look at the old and new of it.  Fairy tales have been around for years, long before anyone we know was alive.   They are scary stories of witches and werewolves and evil queens (very close the female witch that ate little children which they trapped with flavored houses….we actually have made them kinder and gentler–scary considering that they’re still very bizarre and threatening–Above is the original Snow White Villain that I saw as a child.

 More recently we have seen Charlize Theron kill the king and attempt to do so to his daughter in Snow White and the Huntsman –in this one we have a strong male who doesn’t fall under her seductive spell and a heroine who ends up at the end with the choice of a prince or a huntsman (who is a god in another life)

and Angelina Jolie who gives us a little different slant to the villainous queen in Malficent where the villainous woman is fae.  All in all our evil queen which first gave us the evilness of women with a witchy undercurrent hasn’t changed much.

We still believe in her and her ability to manipulate men with her beauty and if that doesn’t work betrayal and death added by an underlying vein of dark magic.  To me it is significant that the story has endured for so many year and keeps coming back a sure sign that we are impressed by evil women (read fear, envy and feel inferior to) and how they manipulate men at the expense of others including younger women.  An evil personage but hardly the worse in popular fiction.

THEN THERE’S THE BAD FATHER:

The once pure Jedi Knight who now a twisted, grotesque being who has gone to the Dark side—and suddenly you see that being an orphan can actually get much worse when you find out that your genes are from a creature like Darth Vader.

While I agree with King that Nicholson’s performance was over acting at its worst—this scene from The Shinning is perfect for our Bad Father #2–the evil that erupts from an unstable or perhaps just basically evil man who happens to be husband and father is an evil that most of us would find the most disturbing and terrible.

And who could do worse for a father than Kenna Reeves in Devil’s Advocate when he discovers his father is actually the Devil and there’s an extra back slap in that Reeves is an attorney and his dad Al Pacino runs a very successful law firm.

So here we have statement on the evil father—a betrayal that is second only to one as far as what human relationships go and hence it is included as one of our top evils.  Oh and we’re at it we’re not too fond of attorneys either–and they get put right up there with the lord of the evil angels in our fiction.

and bad mothers:

Will we ever look at a wire hanger the same again after seeing this scene from Mommy Dearest where Faye Dunaway played another real life actress Joan Crawford from a book by one of her two adopted children.

The Joker (Heath Ledger)

 And then there’s the Mom on Throw Momma from the Train–I mean in one’s worst nightmare there isn’t a more evil, ugly, nagging and nightmarish creature and when her son sets up an agreement to murder her with another we’re almost in agreement—this is sort of reverse discrimination on mother love kinda show where the greatest evil goes from killing mom to mom herself.

 

Oh but wait there is a worse one–the child abusive, nagging and pretty much rotted away in her room, while her disturbed, PSYCHO son Norman Bates does drag in her honor.

So the ultimate betrayal–the mother and step mother—while the step mother is always a bit suspect the mother from whose womb we sprang, who nurtured us up close and personal is to most the least expected and the most evil of all those bad people out there and whether they are nasty and demanding or the ultimate abusive both physically, mentally and sexually they seem to be our main and utmost evil in our world today.

and my most evil villain

In All the President’s Men Redford and Dustin Hoffman play two real life news men who out the corruption and paranoid behavior within our government in a time that I lived through in a non-celluloid world–This betrayal by our government is and was to me one of the greatest evils.