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Evil People Live in Modernist Houses in Popular Films

Ben Critton asks why popular films insist that a preference for modern architecture signifies something cold dubious about your character.

Not in real life, of course, but on film, yes. From Blade Runner to The Big Lebowski to pretty much every Bond movie (and any Austin Powers movie for that matter), the bad guys are guaranteed to inhabit cold, modern boxes. Evil People in Modernist Homes in Popular Films by Ben Critton combines information about the modern houses that fictional characters have resided in with essays about the films they were represented in.

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