[UA] Dead bad guys

[Kevin Elmore]

> This is pretty much the point of politics, or, at
> least, utilitarian politics.  It's only a punishment
> mentality that drives us to want to kill or imprison
> the villain.  I watch a lot of horror movies and
> action movies, where punishment is about the only
> theme explored.  The villain must always die a
> horrible death at the end or Americans won't like it.

That is exactly why I didn't like the ending of Mel
Gibson's Ransom.  

The bad guy is beat.  He's surrounded by cops all with guns
pointing at him.  So what does he do?  He lunges at Mel
Gibson and gets blown to hell.  Why?  Death by cop? 
Reasonable, but that just didn't seem to match this guy's
personality.  It seemed to me that the director decided the
bad guy should die rather than go to jail.

By contrast, you see the same thing in Killing Zoe.  The
difference here is that the guy is pretty nihilistic from
the beginning.  He really had nothing to lose--especially
since he had AIDS.  

Also, it was a good reason to drench the main character
with HIV-infected blood.

I like having games where you can kill or stun someone
(like Torg).  Then you can defeat the bad guy without
killing him.

Kevin


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