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Posted: **Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:59 pm**

A couple more:

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 11:38 am**

Hmmmmm. Patton pretty much was a hero.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:05 pm**

Cail wrote:Hmmmmm. Patton pretty much was a hero.

I don't agree. Patton was supremely vain, egocentric, abusive to his men, and reckless with their lives. He cared more for taking ground and winning a name for himself than he did about his men's safety (which is not to say he didn't care about that, just to be clear). On the plus side, he helped to accomplish a "good" end. That qualifies him as an anti-hero for me.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 12:36 pm**

He was a dick, but he was still a hero.

Posted: **Mon Mar 17, 2008 1:29 pm**

speaking of Clooney, his character from Out of Sight could fit that bill, or any of the criminals from the "Ocean" movies...

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:49 am**

Travis Bickle is yer classic choice, nice one.
Travis from Paris,Texas is another great anti-hero ...
Ash from Evil Dead was an awesome character, but he was a true hero imo

I'd like to add the Dude from the Big Lebowski, the guy was lazy, drug-addled, clueless, vague, but through circumstance was thrust into a detective-type role, which he somehow stumbled through with a measure of success .. or as the Dude himself would say :
'has it ever occured to you, that instead of, y'know, running around, blaming me for all this sh*t, that it could be, it might not be, such a simple case of .. y'know !?'

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2008 9:53 am**

Lebowski is one of those rare comedies that gets funnier with subsequent viewings. (Others include - Strangelove, Spinal Tap, Adaptation) It is especially funny in the context of the Coen's other work. It is their "joke" thriller. It is extremely funny to watch it as if it were a thriller, to see how hilariously it upends the genre.

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:34 am**

Lebowski is one of those rare comedies that gets funnier with subsequent viewings. (Others include - Strangelove, Spinal Tap, Adaptation) It is especially funny in the context of the Coen's other work. It is their "joke" thriller. It is extremely funny to watch it as if it were a thriller, to see how hilariously it upends the genre.

couldnt agree more, one of my very very fave films; hilariously funny on many levels, very clever stuff ...

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2008 1:56 pm**

Cail wrote: How about Neil McCauley, Robert De Niro's character from Heat?

Great choice - the honorable thief.

Marv (Mickey Rourke), Dwight (Clive Owen) and Hartigan (Bruce Willis) from Sin City were terrific anti-heroes, imo.

Posted: **Tue Mar 18, 2008 3:08 pm**

...ok kind of tough to slap the Anti-hero tag on a villain , but how about Micky Knox (Nox, Knocks, hell I dont know how its spelled), or Mr. Pink for that matter.

Posted: **Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:09 pm**

Bogart's Sam Spade is another favorite anti-hero.

Posted: **Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:22 pm**

I liked Bogart in The African Queen although Im not sure if his character qualifies as an anti-hero.

Posted: **Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:38 pm**

Oh, yah! Both are great Bogart choices! I LOVE Maltese Falcon!!!

OH, one more! ... Tom Reagan from Miller's Crossing!!!!
<slapping self for forgetting that one...>

Posted: **Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:16 am**

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