Thread by @CMRosens

#authorconfession D11: Can’t choose! Sorry this is a thread:

Top 3 all time faves in order I found them:

Dracula (book, which began my lifelong obsession w/ rl Vlad III & all the film versions)
Sheriff of Nottingham (film #princeofthieves played by Alan Rickman)
Dr H Lecter 1/

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#Dracula bc he is FASCINATING as a character. He represents a lot of Victorian fears: he is the foreign invader immigrant, spreading corruption at the heart of the Empire; he is an old man daring to adapt & combat his irrelevance in the modern world.

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I can’t begin to stress how many levels I love #Dracula on as a problematic antagonist. He is the suave, sophisticated seducer of respectable women that respectable men are repulsed by but secretly envy. I did a Moment on my Drac tweets so I’ll stop.

#authorconfession D11: I think he’s still a very relevant character though and easily re-inventable for different cultures and contexts. #Dracula #bestvillain

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THAT SAID I loved Alan Rickman as the Sheriff of Nottingham so much. I saw the film when I was 15 and it was pretty much my awakening. The film itself is meh but omg Alan Rickman tho. It’s the bathos/pathos balance, the one-liners, the sinister leather....

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... and the facial expressions that I still STRONGLY relate to to this very day

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Dr Lecter has the most twisted mind, and again, I read the trilogy when I was 15. The unexpected sexiness in the dinner scene in #Hannibal b/w Lecter & Clarice shocked me more than the gore, bc it was the 1st time a ‘heroine’ became like the ‘villain’...

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I absolutely loved Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal, but I can equally get behind Mads Mikkelsen as well. I really enjoyed the different elements of the character they caught from the books while making it their own. The mind games & psychology also hooked me.

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I think these 3 share a few characteristics even though they are very different characters. The theme of wanting to make the MC *like them* is key, except poss for the Sheriff who gets stuck in the opposites attract trope bc he ‘wants something pure’.

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I think mainly for me it’s the idea that you could develop a ‘heroic’ MC into someone almost exactly like the antagonist, that maybe that’s what the MC secretly wanted to be, that it was possible to explore darker sides to your MCs & turn things around.

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My ultimate villain = Alan Rickman’s Sheriff of Nottingham w/ suave aristo bearing & sinister appeal of Dracula & thinks like Dr Lecter. I had a go at writing that and I think Kristof in #FaustineChronicles comes close! Fave villain I’ve written to date.

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