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Smiling Villains. In my research I have found that all the best villains that children love have three things in common. An evil smile, An evil laugh and a cool villain song. As I wont have enough time to create a villain song in this small 30 second animation. Ill stick with an evil laugh and a creepy smile. The smile can come in many ways. For Maleficent, it was an evil self satisfying grin. For Scar it was a mischievous smile that said he new more then you do. For Count Lord Frolo, It as a sinister smile that made you know he was about to do something positively EVIL!!!
I have chosen to focus my research onto three villains in particular. They are Maleficent, the evil witch from Sleeping Beauty. Scar from the lion king and Count Lord Frolo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Maleficent
Maleficent is one of the most famous and feared of all the Disney villains. Evey this about her screamed evil, her glowing yellow eyes pierced though you, her evil laughter sent shivers down your spine. Unlike most villains that just want power, she already has power, in fact the only reason why she puts the princess in an eternal slumber is because she was not invited to a party. She has both unbelievable amounts of magic power and is more then capable of turning you to dust, but she is also incredibly manipulative and she is very good and mind games as well allowing her to attack you moth physically and mentally. Even though Sleeping beauty came out in 1959 this lady is so evil she still makes it into the top 3 spaces of most evil Disney villain lists, and tops many of them.
Scar
Scar is different from most villains in that he actually succeeds in killing of a main character (Mufasa, Simba's farther) Like most villains scar wants power, he want to because king and rule over the pridlands Scar himself has a very interesting character design. unlike the other lions in the movie, which are bright yellows and browns, Scar has very dark brown skin and black fur, he also has his signature scar across his left eye, its dull pink is in real contrast to the glowing yellow eyes (again with yellow eyes, hmmmmm) and his dark skin, it really catches your attention and easily lets you no why his name is scar without even being told.
Count Lord Frolo
Count Lord Frolo probably has the longest list of crimes that almost any other Disney villain, he kills, he burns down houses, he tries to drown ugly baby's, but he justifies all of these horrible acts by lieing to the people as much as himself. He truly thinks of himself as a very religious person he is driven mad by his lust for the Gypsy girl Esmeralda. Disney took a big risk with this villain, they not only made him do much more evil things them most other villains but his motives for doing them is because of a very complex and adult reason. But in doing so they made a villain that very few forget and in the end his true evil is finally reviled and people loved him for it. The subject matters of this villain crimes and reasoning are a very dangerous subject and so I will be steering clear of this style of villain, although it is interesting to note just how far sum Disney villains can go, exspecily when you consider there intended audience.
Reference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl8RY7Bm-Ew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X0dxn40r_c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyS3weMlxLA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Villains
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Lion_King_characters#Scar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney%27s_The_Little_Mermaid_characters#Ursula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Frollo_%28Disney%29#In_the_Disney_film
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