Max stumbles on a small community who is rich in the substance but is being harassed by a group of bandits for the precious fuel. The new currency in this despairing world is gasoline, which is harder to come by than gold. The film begins with Max Rockatansky endlessly roaming a wasteland after a devastating third world war. He’s been played by two different actors at this point, and as good as Tom Hardy’s performance was in Fury Road, we’re going with Mel Gibson’s stark depiction in the 1981 action epic Road Warrior for our favorite version of the antihero. As a cynical ex-cop who drifts from place to place, his only concern is looking out for his best interests. Mad Max is what you would call the classic antihero. Patrick Bateman represents the duality of human nature, riding the rails between tycoon and monster to troubling yet bizarrely hilarious results. One moment he’ll be enjoying cocktails at a high-end bar, the next he’ll be cutting a co-worker up with an axe while listening to Huey Lewis and the News. He’s outwardly successful, but the true nature of what lies beneath is disturbing and oddly comical. He spends his days trying to “fit in” with normal society, with a strict diet and workout regiment, meals at the finest restaurants (except the exclusive Dorsia), and a certain pompous arrogance with which attempts to mask his insecurities and dark desires.īateman is the embodiment of the American Dream pushed beyond its reasonable limits. Patrick Bateman is an investment executive who just can’t seem to keep his nightly bloodlust in check.
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Here are the 20 Best Antiheroes In Movie History.Ĭan the hero of your movie be an immoral, greedy, psychotic Wall Street yuppie who spends his time at night slashing prostitutes and homeless people while occasionally eating some of their brains? The folks that brought us the 2000 film American Psycho would have to say yes. These characters are far from heroic, and some of them are flat out rotten, but oddly enough we find ourselves liking them all the more for it.
They can be cowards, killers, psychos, assassins, or just plain evil. The next heroes on this list aren't so much heroic as they are compelling to watch for their flawed and negative qualities. Society isn't filled with flag-saluting boy scouts, so why would we want our movies filled with them? Naturally, we like our protagonists with a little more of a mean streak. In fact a good antihero should be a bad person.
In honor of the newly released Suicide Squad we're celebrating the heroes that don't necessarily have to be heroic.Īn antihero doesn't have to be moral, courageous, or even a good person. What makes a hero? Someone who is courageous and unyielding? A person unwilling to give up their ideals for anything? Strength to do whatever is necessary, even self-sacrifice? There are certainly a ton of those heroes in cinematic history, but no one on this list can count themselves among them.
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