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Kwigz
10-16-2004, 08:18 PM
A while back I posted a top 10 list of anti-heroes....

1 Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver, 1976)
2 Leon (Jean Reno - Leon, 1994)
3 D-Fens (Michael Douglas - Falling Down, 1993)
4 Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood - Dirty Harry, 1971)
5 Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell - A Clockwork Orange, 1971)
6 Mad Max (Mel Gibson - Mad Max, 1979)
7 Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs, 1991)
8 Jack Carter (Michael Caine - Get Carter, 1971)
9 Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell - Escape from New York, 1981)
10 John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone - First Blood, 1982)

It seems to me that in the last 10 years Hollywood seems to have given up on the anti-hero, with the notable exception of Tom Cruise's character Vincent in Collateral. Is it just me or can anyone else name some decent anti-heroes of late?

Mr. Ram
10-16-2004, 08:35 PM
The only ones i can think of Tyler Durden and fuck thats about it. We need a bad ass anti hero like Travis Bickle.

The Gent
10-17-2004, 10:18 PM
Surely the Man With No Name from the Dollars trilogy has to rank highly on the list of greatest anti-heroes (or virtually anyone Clint Eastwood played in his earlier western years).
Xander Cage from xXx is about the last one I can remember.