When a human or dwarf dies, everyone's so sad and we need separate scenes for their deaths and their mourning. When an orc dies? NOTHING! NO ONE CARES!! :'(
Orcs are social living beings as well. They live their everyday lives just like us, they have families and friends and children.
Orcs are depicted as such ugly and nasty creature, that not even the orcs care that orcs die! It's like orcs are such terrible creatures that they should be slaughtered for everyone's sake, even the orcs sake.
Next time you watch LOTR or Hobbit, please feel some compassion for the orcs as well. And goblins and trolls and wargs.
The reason we don't care about the orcs is that they're really depicted as ugly creatures, and the Halo effect(holdudvar hatás) takes control over our feelings.
The Halo Effect is when you attribute properties to a person because of your general impression* of them - basically because of their looks. For example orcs look ugly, they are probably evil creatures.
It also works the other way - ladybugs are very nice and cute insects and you enjoy having them walk around on your skin. If they wouldn't have dots on them and they would be all black, and maybe have a different shape you would freak out because of them.
When I was young, I hated the show: "Courage the cowardly dog", because it was full of scary and disgusting things, and Courage, the main character, wasn't appealing at all. Years later I realized that maybe that was the point - ugly messed up creates can have good souls and amazing personalities.
Unfortunately, our beloved Disney is probably the strongest enforcer of the halo effect. Evil characters are ugly and good characters are beautiful (in the Beauty and the Beast this isn't as true as in the other movies - but seriously the point of that movie is that if you're rich than you're also OK)
So that's that - please think about the poor orcs next time you watch a movie with them. And maybe try to image the movie with switched roles!
*it works the other way around as well - if you chat online with someone for a long time and you've never seen them and they are a good chat-partner then you imagine a very pleasant person on the other side; if they are annoying then you don't imagine them as prince charming
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