Listening to A Dark Knight by Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard
I was re-reading a Chronicles of Riddick/Pitch Black fan fiction story the other day. The author had the job of keeping Riddick completely evil without redeeming him, in the end though she redeemed him but barely. By the time the end came around you were so beaten up with Riddick-evil that you wished for a break. During the course of the fan fiction I thought to myself , “Why doesn’t Hollywood make Riddick this evil?” It seems to me that Hollywood wants us to sympathize with the bad guy in some way, shape, or form. Hollywood just never makes the bad guy, completely evil.
In the beginning of the Chronicles of Riddick, the Elemental Aereon talks about “fighting evil with another type of evil”. From this, I can safely assume that Riddick is one type of evil fighting against the other, the Necromongers. Riddick does all these great, heroic things in both Pitch Black and in The Chronicles of Riddick. If I wasn’t looking so hard for him to be evil I would have missed it. In Pitch Black, Riddick saved Imam and Jack when he could have just left the planet T2 without the others. In The Chronicles of Riddick, Riddick is deliberately caught to go to Crematoria to presumably bust Jack out. In turning events, he also helps other convicts escape too. Apparently Riddick also has a soft spot for children [1]. To me, helping fellow comrades and having soft spots for children essentially erodes his evil facade.
The Joker is possibly my favorite villain. I hate that people want to make the Joker have a past, complete with wife and children. It’s plain sad.
