>>299354
Funny thing about the James Bond comparison is that, in the original
Casino Royale novel, Bond is actually very much a twit. He doesn't give two shits about the stakes of the Cold War and treats the espionage game like any wage slave treats their regular job. Is isn't until the
END of the novel that he realizes how much of a moron that he has been about the matter and actually grows.
>>299356
>They can't see a cool character in an action movie as a cool character but rather something meaningful more like the representation they assume to be, why is that?
It depends. Another novel/film I can use as an example is
The Hustler . What makes Eddy Felson such a cool character in the story
isn't that he is the best pool player, it's watching him become an even better player after he had his ego thoroughly destroyed. In
Star Wars , what made Han so cool wasn't that he was a smug mercenary, it was seeing him finally pursuing a cause that he believed in rather than constantly being on the run.
To put it simply, what makes cool characters so "cool" is that they set out to accomplish a task, no matter how difficult or asinine the matter,
and then they actually do it . Need look no further than the Detective in
Red Harvest point blank telling the elites of Personville that he's going to cull the corruption because they accomplished the near-impossible tasking of pissing him off, and then proceeding to follow through on that threat.
>>299358
>they literally don't know how to see the world from the eyes of another.
Anon, you have that with
high IQ people, too. It's infamously known that Al Capone considered himself to be a humanitarian and a philathropist despite being one of the most notorious criminals in all of history. People will always find some justification or defense for their actions despite how objectively wrong they are.