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Originally Posted by shadyJ
+1 on this. It's so glaring and transparent when a movie sets up a jerk for the slaughter just for some easy audience gratification. It not only severely lessens the horror, it telegraphs the character's fate so there is no suspense. What's worse, it demonstrates the writer/director's willingness to pander to the audience thereby draining the rest of the movie of tension. The moment you know the film makers are only out to make a crowd-pleaser is the moment you can predict everything that is going to happen to all the characters, and from then on you are just marking off checkboxes in a list of cliches.
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I think this also applies to letting one or two of the nicest/smartest people survive after the evil has been defeated.
So they'll live happily ever after (or until the sequel) and it leaves the audience with a feeling of relief and hope.
A lot of time it would be so much better and fitting for a movie that everybody dies/the world ends/evil wins/...
Seven might be a good example.