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In addition to the very simple Wikipedia definition, I quite like this one from Urban Dictionary: "The anti-hero is the hero who does the right thing, albeit with tactics that aren't always what you would call ethical. They are more interested with getting the job done than doing it as virtuously as possible, therefore showing how morally ambiguous they are. The anti-hero has become more popular with society today because people can identify better with the good-guy who sometimes does the not-so-good things; the hero who does no wrong is outdated and is becoming increasingly irrelevant in this day and age. They are the product of a society in which the line between good and bad is becoming harder to tell." There was something else I read which basically said that anti-heroes are grey, operating somewhere in between the purity of a hero and darkness of the villain, with lots of ambiguity to their methods and character traits. My current list is quite long!
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#7522
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Antonio Salieri. Amadeus. F. Murray Abraham. (music composer driven to jealousy by Mozart. All I wanted was to sing to God) Macmanus Brothers. Boondock Saints. Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus. (not all brothers follow the path of The Krays. We do not ask for your poor or hungry). D-Fens. Falling Down Michael Douglas. (Unstable man and the crumbles at society, not everything is economic viable. The trigger its sensitive). John Rambo. First Blood. Sylvester Stallone. (a man fights back at police corruption, gorilla warfare style. Nothing is over...Nothing. You just turn it off.) Michael Corleone. The Godfather. Al Pacino (war hero, motioned to join the dark part of the family he didn't want to be. That's my family Kay not me). Severus Snape. Harry Potter. Alan Rickman. (Not every Slitherens are bad, even after all this time...always). Dae-Su Oh. Oldboy. Min-sik Choi. (after being imprisoned don't you want answers, but sometimes we won't like them. Laugh and the world laughs with you). Travis Bickley. Taxi Driver. Robert DeNiro. (Vietnam Vet trying to help a girl escape her life as a prostitute. you talking to me). Bill Munny. Unforgiven. (retired gunslinger coerced to come back to the life he left, judging on what is actually good and bad. Deserves got nothing to do with it). V. V For Vendetta Hugo Weaving. (a man seeking revenge on a society that made him the man he is now. People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people).
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ANTI-HEROES My list kept on growing to the point where I couldn't reduce it to only ten characters. Well, I could have, but I thought you might like to see the 40-strong long list, where I'm still not 100% happy with the order..
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My thanks to everyone who contributed a list of their favourite anti-heroes, a topic I didn't realise was so big and varied. This week is again focused on characters, usually found in films noir, but also in action films and dramas, from the classic noir films of the 1940s to many of Russ Meyer's films and some of Roger Corman's finest, to more modern movies like The Dark Knight Rises, Gone Girl and Red Sparrow. As of last week, it might be helpful to use the Wikipedia definition as your reference point. Quote:
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includes Renee/Alice from lost highway. Kim Novak in Vertigo. Norma Desmond from sunset boulevard. audition.jpg 220px-Gilda_(1946_movie_poster).jpg Lost_Highway_photograph.jpg Barbara_Bouchet_in_Milano_Calibro_9.jpg last seduction.jpg ct-vertigo-60th-anniversary-20180316.jpg night evelyn.jpg norma.jpg killers.jpg lady from shanghai.jpg |
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Body Heat 1981 Basic Instinct 1992 Chinatown 1974 Double Indemnity 1944 Gilda 1946 The Last Seduction 1994 The Maltese Falcon 1941 Murder, My Sweet 1944 Niagara 1953 The Postman Always Rings Twice 1946 Too Late For Tears 1949
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Plenty of honourable mentions, in no particular order:
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