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Character Name : Carla

Year : 1995

In 1995 movie Sudden Death. Actress Faith Minton plays as villainess Carla. One of the iconic villains and one of my favorite villains of all time, let's watch our villainess Carla played by the gorgeous Faith Minton.

I keep saying it, 90s movies always look better than modern movies, like even the intro with fire, the movie basically stats with the hero having his life trauma, which is like very common in movies then, don't know why, probably to make the hero sympathetic, in Double Impact they did the same thing, like the two twins have lost their parents, even Batman have similar origin story.

I don't get why the 90s aesthetic is so charming, like the cloths, the props, it's like the movie have a soul, modern tech sometimes make the movie feel soulless, and the way how easy things are, it restrict the plot points and the drama, like, I wish if there are more movies today that just ignore modern tech and pretend they don't exist, it doesn't have to make sense, as long as it gives us better plots and movies that are more fun to watch and enjoy.

Around 7:30 mark, we see a glimpse of our gorgeous villainess, It's like for a second..

I think everyone know the plot of the movie, the hero is basically a security guard, and the villains plan to take over a stadium during a big game etc..

The idea that the hero is driven by his personal trauma of failing to rescue a little girl in a firefight, which create a personal motive for the character to save his daughter, like in order to create drama and tension and sense of urgency.

Come on, I totally forgot about that, in 12 minutes time mark, Jean-Claude Van Damme is like gloating on how he can speak French, so he basically speak French to one of the players.

Ok, around 16 minutes, you see how the movie smartly avoided taking a political stance, like, how they asked the players "Are you democrats or republicans?" and they replied as a joke "Neither, sir, Canadians", basically what they are saying, it's just a movie..

Yeah, movies can be political, but if they answer anything other than that, they may risk alienating half of their audiences, so they smartly avoided that, which would weight the movie down, since it's just an action movie, and it doesn't need to be more than that.

30 minutes in, don't feel bored, there's no lectures, I'm just watching the movie, that's escapism..

We kind of see Carla around 30 minutes mark, she's like in the penguin costume, she killed the poor lady, then the daughter of the hero saw it, now Carla take the little girl hostage, so she doesn't expose her.

Our gorgeous villainess then take her and joined the rest of the bad guys, we see her face briefly, and god, she's so beautiful..

The final fight between the hero and Carla starts just afterwards around 37 minutes, you can see here scenes Here.

Now, the reason Carla is one of my favorite villains of all time, is basically this, her unique character and scarcity, the reason she's unique that there's no other character in the movie as unique as her, and scarcity because, at least for me, when she died, I really wanted to see her again, like I would go to watch this movie in the theater once more just for it to give me two more minutes of her onscreen, not any other character, not even the hero himself, only Carla, her scarcity is what make her character is the best character in the movie, some may claim that the poor woman Carla killed in the start is also as unique, but she's actually isn't, because there are thousands like her in the movie, while there's only one Carla, one henchwoman, that's why in movies with no scarcity of villains like for example The Walking Dead and Black Hawk Down, villains aren't unique or scarce, there's abundance of them, and when you take away the uniqueness and scarcity from any character, you may end up dehumanizing them over time, even if they are heroes, like when you enforce rules that put entire groups to act the same exact perfect way with abundance even if you portray them as heroes, you end up dehumanizing them. It's like this, the best characters are the characters when a show/movie ends, you want to see them the most, and the worst characters is when the movie/show ends and you can't stand seeing them on screen, it doesn't matter if they are villains or heroes, as for our fandom, Faith Minton will always be a star here.