In the comics, Black Adam is a villain, typically fighting Shazam or other members of the Justice League. The version that The Rock is playing, though, is more of an antihero, acting as the film's protagonist. However, just because he's a villain now doesn't mean the character has let...
He doesn’t have the stomach to make Black Adam much of an antihero, let alone a bad guy (the character is workshopping catchphrases within a few scenes of waking up, and has a habit of disappearing from sight whenever things get complicated). And so Johnson has made a decidedly PG-...
Separating Black Adam from Shazam leaves you with a dour, grumpy antihero without the counterbalance of the sunny, idealistic Billy Batson. Dwayne Johnson waited years and years to get his chance to play this character, and he certainly looks like a guy who could smash a jet to pieces with ...
2) Most narratives will often portray the protagonist as a hero and the antagonist as a villain, like Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort in Harry Potter. 大多数故事通常会把主角描绘成英雄,把对手描绘成恶棍,就像《哈利·波特》中的哈利·波特和伏地魔一样。 Cf.: protagonist n.;anthropologist n. a ...
Martin McDonagh, the man behind In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths, and Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing, Missouri, returns with another pitch-black comedy, this one about the breakup between two longtime friends on a little Irish island called Inisherin. One day, out of the blue, Colm (play...
In the case of Daario Naharis, he was originally portrayed with a playful, almost swashbuckling air courtesy of "Deadpool" villain Ed Skrein. However,due to still-unexplained behind-the-scenes politics (as Skrein has directly alluded to in interviews concerning the matter), he was replaced afte...
“The villain in superhero movies is often, I think, what makes the movie,” Emmerich mused to EW. “And I thought Dwayne’s take on the character, and the way he saw Black Adam, was really compelling and fun.” This note of “compelling and fun” seems to nod to a DC/WB film ...
To see a later version of this villain transformation, you need only look 30 years later in the timeline at Kylo Ren, Darth Vader's grandson and the inheritor of his dark side power in theStar Warssequel trilogy. Played by the unconventionally good-looking Adam Driver and having a constant,...
s the first Spider-Man villain not created by Stan Lee. Although he was originally written as a horror-based enemy to Spider-Man, Morbius went on to have his own tragic antihero series and was even featured in analternate ending to 1998’sBlade. This upcoming film, however, will be the...