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If you were to look at Sean Bean's acting history, you could probably pinpoint one characteristic common to each of his characters. Alec Trevelyan in Goldeneye, Ian Howe in National Treasure, or Boromir in Lord of the Rings - just to name a few - all seem to share one common characterstic; they all seem to be the "villain" or a "bad guy" in each of their respective movies.

He's gotten a reputation as someone who will betray you in his movies. I see it differently. I see his characters out to get what is justly theirs. Often times, he's the one who's been betrayed. But because of how his movies play out, we often walk out of the theater thinking he was the one who did wrong. We never stop to think whether the wrong was done to him.

For years, Sean Bean has been playing these characters, the villains of the movie world. He's the man you love to hate. "I think I've been misunderstood," Bean says. (http://www.compleatseanbean.com/mainfeatures-59.html).

And he's right. We've all misunderstood him. He's never truly the villain, and more often than not, he's actually the victim. At worst, he's the misunderstood villain, the man we actually need to listen to in order to understand why he does what he does.

We've unfairly maligned Bean's characters, seeing them as one sided, evil villains. But his characters are deeper than that. They're misunderstood, and we don't realize it. More often that not, Bean plays characters that are too nice, too trusting, too naive about how those around him will take advantage of him.

In this blog, I hope to set the record straight about Bean and his characters, and maybe, just maybe, we can all come to understand these characters a little bettter. Together, we can set the record straight.