It can be very hard to make a character relatable or even liked by an audience, it's all about understanding your audience and deciding how you should make the character favourable in their eyes. It's an effort because you always wonder if people are going to like said character or hate said character. This can be a problem if you are meant to like the character nad htye instead come across as hateful.
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In my own personal experiance the character in a movie that I was supposed to like but ended up hating was Kate Winslet's character in the 2006 movie Little Children, Sarah Pierce. In case you don't know about the movie it's about an adulterous affair between a married man and women, Sarah is the woman.
Well to begin with the first thing that made me hate her was how completely affectionless she was to her three year old daughter Lucy. She would often think to herself how much she dislikes raising her daughter, she ignores her daughter and shows no affection. If her daughter makes her a present out of affection and she doesn't notice because she's completetly self obsorbed. She spends most of her time dumping her daughter on someone else to go off and be alone. (note: I can appreciate the idea that she doesn't like this lifestyle but for fuck's sake don't take it out on the kid)
Next we see she's even worse to her husband Richard, yelling at him scorning him and being generally rude to him. A major point in her story is when she discovers Richard watching internet porn.... the way I see it however is the man, with no physical or emotional connection to his wife who has been naught but bitchy to him so my theory is he was reduced to porn and it's actually a sad addiction that he clearly is ashamed of.
Then she goes after the happily married Brad (the man of this drama) and the develop a sexual tension and eventually he makes a move on her and she follows through and they have dirty sex. This officially making her a hypocrite in my book, also she has no concern with the fact that Brad has a wife and family instead only cares about herself and not about the lives that she's ruining.
I could go on but seriously there are so many loathsome things about her that it would take days. Her crowning achievement being when she tries to kidnap her own daughter (who she doesn't even love anyway) when she decides to leave Richard.
Look that's my opinion... what movie characters were you supposed to like but just can't no matter which way you slice it?
(big wall of text coming up, feel free to skip)
In my own personal experiance the character in a movie that I was supposed to like but ended up hating was Kate Winslet's character in the 2006 movie Little Children, Sarah Pierce. In case you don't know about the movie it's about an adulterous affair between a married man and women, Sarah is the woman.
Well to begin with the first thing that made me hate her was how completely affectionless she was to her three year old daughter Lucy. She would often think to herself how much she dislikes raising her daughter, she ignores her daughter and shows no affection. If her daughter makes her a present out of affection and she doesn't notice because she's completetly self obsorbed. She spends most of her time dumping her daughter on someone else to go off and be alone. (note: I can appreciate the idea that she doesn't like this lifestyle but for fuck's sake don't take it out on the kid)
Next we see she's even worse to her husband Richard, yelling at him scorning him and being generally rude to him. A major point in her story is when she discovers Richard watching internet porn.... the way I see it however is the man, with no physical or emotional connection to his wife who has been naught but bitchy to him so my theory is he was reduced to porn and it's actually a sad addiction that he clearly is ashamed of.
Then she goes after the happily married Brad (the man of this drama) and the develop a sexual tension and eventually he makes a move on her and she follows through and they have dirty sex. This officially making her a hypocrite in my book, also she has no concern with the fact that Brad has a wife and family instead only cares about herself and not about the lives that she's ruining.
I could go on but seriously there are so many loathsome things about her that it would take days. Her crowning achievement being when she tries to kidnap her own daughter (who she doesn't even love anyway) when she decides to leave Richard.
Look that's my opinion... what movie characters were you supposed to like but just can't no matter which way you slice it?
