Top Ten Tuesdays

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[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

FAVOURITE USES OF A POWER TOOL

1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre – Leatherface versus Franklin with chainsaw
   
   
2. Fargo – Carl Showalter's leg in wood chipper
   
   
3. City of the Living Dead – Mr Ross versus Bob with drill
   
   
4. Groundhog Day – Phil Connors ice sculpting
   
   
5. Braindead – Lionel versus zombies with lawnmower
   
   
6. Army of Darkness – Ash versus female Deadite with chainsaw (in the pit)
   
   
7. The Toolbox Murders – Vance versus Dee Ann with nail Gun
   
   
8. Haute Tension – Driver meets concrete saw
   
   
9. Evil Dead II – Ash versus his own hand with chainsaw ("Who's laughing now?")
   
   
10. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil – Mike versus wood chipper
    

Just missing out:
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers

[Demoncrat]

TCM ... Franklin's demise
Absurd ... bandsaw headache
Superstition ... the bandsaw is back!
Class Of '84 .... circular saw lesson
Touch Of Death ... gourmet time
COTLD ... Morghen gets the point
Scarface "and now the leg"
Pieces ... room for one more?
Tucker & Dale Vs Evil ... accidental woodchippering
Evil Dead II ... Ash takes the situation in hand

[bleakshaun]

Lethal Weapon 2


Evil Dead 2


Saw 3


Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2


City of the Living Dead


Hatchet


Braindead


Driller Killer


Friday the 13th - Part 7


American Psycho


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[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

My thanks to everyone who contributed a list of their favourite scenes involving a power tool.

This week's topic is a bit more general and it'll be interesting to see the variety of characters (and preferably actors and films) listed.

If you could go by the Wikipedia definition, that would help to keep everyone on the same track.

"An antihero or antiheroine is a main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes such as idealism, courage and morality."

ANTI-HEROES

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Top 10 Movie Anti-Heroes

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) Casablanca (1942)
Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer) - Batman Returns (1992)
Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) - Dollars Trilogy (1964-66)
Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) - X-Men series (2000-17)
Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) - Escape from New York (1981)
Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) - The Crow (1994)
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) - Suicide Squad (2016)
John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) - Rambo series (1982-2019)
Jim Stark (James Dean) - Rebel Without a Cause (1955)*
Bud White (Russell Crowe) - L.A. Confidential (1997)

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Seeing as Harry Callahan is a cop and on the right side of the law he's a hero rather than anti-hero.

Han Solo has never been an anti-hero, scoundrel yes but always heroic.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Seeing as Harry Callahan is a cop and on the right side of the law he's a hero rather than anti-hero.

Han Solo has never been an anti-hero, scoundrel yes but always heroic.

The rationale I'm using is the Wikipedia definition, so if someone like Harry Callahan is doing something for the right reasons, but doing it in an amoral or otherwise flawed way, then that would make an anti-hero.

I wouldn't class Han Solo as an anti-hero because, as you say, he is more of a scoundrel and does display idealism, courage and morality. 'Dirty' Harry doesn't have that same idealism or morality.

Great list, by the way.

[Nordicdusk]

This is a tough list to make trying to define an anti hero is harder than I thought.

Fair play Dem straight in no kissing.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Nordicdusk

This is a tough list to make trying to define an anti hero is harder than I thought.

Fair play Dem straight in no kissing.

Anti-heroes don't kiss. At least not until the final scene.