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BAD GIRLS: BASIC INSTINCT, BATMAN RETURNS |
 | | Since melodrama has been around, whether in poems, plays, books, or movies, there have always been villains, and there have always been villainess roles (along, of course, with bad girls who end up falling for the good guy and changing their ways, but that's another story). |
 | | On the one hand, of course, villains are fun to play, to read, and so on, and in most melodramas, a memorable villain is what helps make it memorable, more so than the hero character. |
 | | On the other hand, villainess roles (particularly the femme fatale roles of film noir in the 40's) hung on the male fear of females, and of sex, and at their most basic, they could be a way of hanging the most vicious of misogynistic fears on the story. |
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