By Pamela O'Connor
As many
movies will tell us, more specifically Disney, evil and the “bad guys” are
always unattractive, unpleasant looking people. They have weird accents and are
not “society’s” idea of beautiful. It is shown many times that people with
white features are normally seen as more beautiful than people with darker
skin. But it scares us even more when we see an evil person can be beautiful,
it makes us less trusting of people in general. We want to trust good- looking
people, so we believe that goodness is found in beauty. In the recent Boston
bombing scandal, a rolling stone cover was put out with one of the bombers face
across it, and surprisingly, he didn’t look evil. He, in fact, looked sexy. It outraged most people and this
is because the media has portrayed other terrorists or people involved in
terrorism as ugly, fat and dark.
The picture was taken from the bomber’s (Dzhokhar Tsarnaev)
social media site. He starts to resemble many teen pop stars, with the young,
clean and “white looking” face, complete with big eyes and long dark locks surrounding
his face. All these classic tales of good vs. evil show the hero being a big,
strong, good-looking man that you could trust and put your faith in; he is easy
to love. The villains are always even larger, but mean looking and it is very
easy to hate them. Tsarnaev looks easy to trust and like, which is extremely
scary to society considering the damage he and his brother have done to
America.
Hollywood has
changed our view of sexy countless times, and it can mean many different things
to many different people. Tsarnaev is considered sexy now because of his resemblance
to celebrities and even more alarming, Disney characters. He has been compared
to Aladdin on many accounts, with his dark hair and shape of his face. Since Aladdin
is a good guy, it is hard to accept that someone so horrible could resemble a
beloved character. It forces society to question everything we have grown up
on, and changes our view of evil from ugly to beautiful.
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