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Old 11-06-11, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by RichC2
The Devil's Rejects -- the protagonists were some of the worst people comitted to film, until they were out bad guy'd by the sheriff.
Totally on this one. Great flick. It has everything I'm not attracted to in terms of subject matter..but damn...was it good. Wish the BD had all the features from the DVD.
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Re: Bad guys you root for?

Originally Posted by rw2516
With anti-heroes does it matter if the conflict is with other bad buys or with good guys.
As per the English language? Yes.

Originally Posted by Merriam-Webster, motherfucker
Antihero: a protagonist or notable figure who is conspicuously lacking in heroic qualities
Originally Posted by Wikipedia, not as official
Modern-day heroes have enjoyed an increased moral complexity. In 1930, originally introduced as a mysterious radio narrator by David Chrisman, William Sweets, and Harry Engman Charlot for Street and Smith Publications, The Shadow was fully developed and transformed into a pop culture antihero icon by pulp writer Walter B. Gibson. Mid-20th century playwrights such as Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard showcased anti-heroic protagonists recognizable by their lack of identity and determination. Pulp fiction and noir detective stories of the mid-20th century saw characters such as Sam Spade, who lacked the glorious appeal of previous heroic figures, become popular. Influenced by the pulps, early comic books featured anti-heroic characters such as Namor the Sub-Mariner (who would just as soon conquer humanity as try to save it). Marvel Comics most prolific anti-hero is perhaps The Punisher, who is more than willing to kill those who he views as deserving of death. Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" showcased a wandering vigilante (the "Man with No Name" played by Clint Eastwood) whose gruff demeanor clashed with other heroic characteristics. Frank Miller said that Sin City character Marv is said to be the story's equivalent of an antihero. One of the more famous female antiheroes is Catwoman, who was historically a supervillainess foe of Batman. Her usual crime was burglary, but she is not evil as she has her own moral code, and abhors killing. Catwoman has even, on occasion, helped Batman fight crime and villains in East End.

Many modern antiheroes possess, or even encapsulate, the postmodern rejection of traditional values symptomatic of Modernist literature in general, as well as the disillusion felt after World War II and the Nuclear Age. The continuing popularity of the antihero in modern literature and popular culture may be based on the recognition that a person is fraught with human frailties, unlike the archetypes of the white-hatted cowboy and the noble warrior, and is therefore more accessible to readers and viewers. This popularity may also be symptomatic of the rejection by the avant-garde of traditional values after the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s. In the postmodern era, traditionally defined heroic qualities, akin to the classic "knight in shining armor" type, have given way to the "gritty truth" of life, and authority in general is being questioned. The brooding vigilante or "noble criminal" archetype, seen in characters like Detectives Vic Mackey and Dirty Harry, is slowly becoming part of the popular conception of heroic valor rather than being characteristics that are deemed un-heroic.
In theory, any story that has a "protagonist" will be some sort of hero. If we we're rooting for the bad guys, as this thread entails, we're rooting for that story's antagonist.
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Re: Bad guys you root for?

The Imperial Stormtroopers fighting the Ewoks.

Kill 'em all!
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Now that I think about it, Travolta in Pulp Fiction.
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30 posts and not a single mention of Alan Rickman's Sheriff?

I still haven't decided if Alan Rickman or Roger Rees was the funnier Sheriff.
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Originally Posted by scott1598
Gary Oldman.
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Originally Posted by UAIOE
30 posts and not a single mention of Alan Rickman's Sheriff?

I still haven't decided if Alan Rickman or Roger Rees was the funnier Sheriff.


Alan Rickman= Hans Gruber
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The aliens in Attack The Block.
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Gerrard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen. I think Jamie Foxx was suppose to be the protaganist that you are rooting for, but I have watched the movie 2-3 times and Butler always has my vote and the ending irritates me.

And of course the king of them all Darth Vader.
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Jack Torrance. I so wanted him to get his ax into that hideously buck-toothed shrieking wife of his.
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Guy - Riddick


Gal - Go-Go Yubari
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Jurassic Park raptors

I hated those kids.
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Bob from Twin Peaks
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Hitler in all those YouTube videos. He makes a lot of good points!
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Originally Posted by TheMovieman


(Heat)
^ this, of course and this Robert De Niro in Cape Fear (below)

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Originally Posted by Cusm
Gerrard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen. I think Jamie Foxx was suppose to be the protaganist that you are rooting for, but I have watched the movie 2-3 times and Butler always has my vote and the ending irritates me.

And of course the king of them all Darth Vader.
Gerrard Butler wasn't the bad guy in that movie. He was just doing what the government refused to do ; giving justice to the actual bad guys in the movie that that the law let go. Jamie Foxx was the bad guy for trying to stop him.

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