Fully agree. It's the same reason a ferocious animal is dangerous—you don't know what they will do, and you have no way of communicating with their mind. Chigurh has always seemed to me the perfect villain for this very reason. A close second is Ledger's Joker. The Joaquin Phoenix Joker film is an attempt to explain why the Joker is who he is, but he isn't the same character as Heath Ledger's Joker.
It’s interesting to note that the Phoenix Joker isn’t the antagonist--more of the anti-hero or even the hero. Joker only works as the evil antagonist when he has much less inner life.
Fully agree. It's the same reason a ferocious animal is dangerous—you don't know what they will do, and you have no way of communicating with their mind. Chigurh has always seemed to me the perfect villain for this very reason. A close second is Ledger's Joker. The Joaquin Phoenix Joker film is an attempt to explain why the Joker is who he is, but he isn't the same character as Heath Ledger's Joker.
It’s interesting to note that the Phoenix Joker isn’t the antagonist--more of the anti-hero or even the hero. Joker only works as the evil antagonist when he has much less inner life.
True!