A Dish Best Served Cold

I have come up with an idea for this assignment already, it is my first idea but people seem to really like it so I'm really happy with it, after doing assignment where you can't show your personality it is finally great to be able to go wild and show people what is really going on in your head and to then hear people like it it just awesome.

As this idea is still in development i don't have a fully detailed idea to give you, but it will focus on revenge. For inspiration and insight into the kind of revenge women in particular take part in I searched the Internet and found some pretty awesome results.

Although you have to watch this on youtube I highly recommend watching this advert by F&F. Funny, smart and full or carefully planned revenge. I like how in control and calm the brunette is whilst doing everything too, proving how tactical and well planned revenge can be just as, or more rewarding than just smashing something. This gives the impression that women prefer this sort of revenge- however, there are some examples of revenge by women that contrast this in the form of...

Kill Bill. This film and its sequel by Tarantino tell the story of a woman hell bent on revenge after being shot down by her own team of assassins and losing her baby. One by one, the main character hunts them down and gives them a taste of their own medicine. This film and its sequel gives really reinforces the saying 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned'. This films shows revenge as being violent and messy, contrasting greatly to the advert above. Although, the main character does know her old team mate's weaknesses and uses them to her advantage which could be counted as being fairly cunning. This film was made by Tarantino though who is male and this could explain why the revenge is more blood thirsty as men seem to prefer that sort of revenge.

I also found this website about women and revenge: http://www.revengelady.com/top_ten_stories.html - this one is interesting as some of the stories are well thought out and rather amusing like distributing all her ex's fling's clothes to local orphanages, others focus on the destruction of something that the person who wronged them loved. This gives a mixed bag of feedback but it appears that everyone seeks revenge in different ways - both planned revenge that may take months to fully flourish and instant destructive revenge. I will also ask a few of my friends to hear if they have ever attempted to get revenge on cheating partners or people who have wronged them.

Update: After asking my friends about some revenge stories i managed to get some interesting ones, although not a very large amount as i seem to be friends with people who just don't hold a grudge.

One story was about a cheating boyfriend who got his drum kit dented and broken, another story involved 'accidentally' smearing black paint on the back of a bully during an art class and another included a girl who suddenly became very clumsy and broke her cheating boyfriends phone, Ipad and Ipod all in the same day.

Although some of these stories are quite interesting, two of them focus on destruction, whereas only one was done sneakily. This gives me the same results as before, that women seek revenge in a number of ways, this will come in handy when designing the story of my game.