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Originally Posted by old-fart
I thought Benedict Cumberbacth was fantastic in the remake - also a very likable bad-guy - but then I'm a fan of his from Sherlock (where's he's really a bad good guy, if you get my meaning).
To quote some random bad guy in Wreck-It Ralph "just because you are badguy, doesn't mean you are bad guy..."
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I wasn't a huge fan of that movie at all. But I guess if I was going to classify it, that characterization was along the lines of Khan in Star Seed. Who hadn't been hit with tragedy and loss and grief.
He was a pragmatic leader who had been enhanced in order to as he said
Give the world order.
The Wrath of Khan was really Ahab obsessed with the White whale. A man so overcome with not only grief but the burden of leadership that he broke.
He was a supremely sympathetic villain because frankly any of us when confronted with that level of loss might follow that path down to its inevitable self destructive conclusion.