I recently watched Hotel Artemis, which is about a hospital for criminals run by an inflexible nurse (played by 2 times Oscar winner Jodie Foster) and I couldn't help but think about other movies with villains as protagonists.
'Bad guys' have become the center of some interesting original scripts or retellings (Angelina Jolie's Maleficent is an example of the latter), but even if they've become popular recently, film history is full of boys and girls who kept us wondering whether they acted the way they do because they went crazy, it was induced by drugs or they really were cruel and violent...
Anyway, enough with me blabbing, let’s get back to business.
Here's my list of movies and TV Series on these ambiguous characters. Enjoy!
MOVIES
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
TV SERIES
Ph: impawards.com, imdb.com & asianwiki.com
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The dystopian movie directed by Stanley Kubrick (based on the same name novel by Anthony Burgess) can be considered the founder of the genre, with a group of friends devoted to violence and other crimes.
Alex, the leader, is especially creepy!
Alex, the leader, is especially creepy!
Se7en (1995)
Two completely different detectives have to partner up against a serial killer that murders his victims with different styles every time but kills all take inspiration from the seven deadly sins.
I guess this can be categorized as both psychological and crime thriller.
The cast is excellent in its performance!
I guess this can be categorized as both psychological and crime thriller.
The cast is excellent in its performance!
John Wick (2014)
Set in the underground criminal society, John Wick is a former hitman that goes back in the game when the heir of a powerful mob boss kills his dog and steals his car...in the next two movies John manages to take his personal war in Italy and back to the States as well.
Venom (2018)
Birth and rise of one of Spiderman's most insidious and frankly horrifying opponents, Venom explains who it all started and who was the villain before transforming in the monster we know: Eddie Brock, an investigative journalist, who was proverbially 'in the wrong place at the wrong time'.
Joker (2019)
Probably the most anticipated superhero movie of this 2019, narrating the rise of Batman's nemesis, the Joker.
Joaquin Phoenix is the last to join the list of actors who portrayed DC's villain, along with Jack Nicholson, Jared Leto, Cesar Romero and,
of course, Heath Ledger.
We just have to wait and see how his performance will be, but I sense he'll do good.
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Dr.Hannibal Lecter has been created by author Thomas Harris and has currently 4 movies and a TV Series adapted on his character.
The most famous is "The Silence of the Lambs" where the doctor will help FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) profiling the killer she has been trying to catch.
The most famous is "The Silence of the Lambs" where the doctor will help FBI agent Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) profiling the killer she has been trying to catch.
Funny Games (2007)
Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet are seriously frightening in this movie, where they play two friends who take a family hostage and torture them. The story is a continuo of psychological anxiety and suspense and it very well directed and acted.
It's a remake of an Austrian movie from 1997.
Suicide Squad, that's what happens.
Personally, I didn't like the movie, but the idea itself isn't that bad. Plus you get to see all the range of badness: from the Joker (devoted to evilness and criminality) to Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana, who's a good woman turned bad after his husband's death while in between we have mercenaries like Slipknot and Deadshot.
As Japanese tastes, everything is exasperated to excess, but from the trailer, I can already say I love the underground/noir-neon settings.
It's a remake of an Austrian movie from 1997.
Suicide Squad (2016)
What happens when you take almost all the bad guys from the DC comics and put them in a movie together? Suicide Squad, that's what happens.
Personally, I didn't like the movie, but the idea itself isn't that bad. Plus you get to see all the range of badness: from the Joker (devoted to evilness and criminality) to Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana, who's a good woman turned bad after his husband's death while in between we have mercenaries like Slipknot and Deadshot.
Diner ダイナー (2019)
Of course, I couldn't leave out the Japanese movie set in an ambiguous and extreme restaurant, where both staff and customers are (at various stages of craziness) criminals.As Japanese tastes, everything is exasperated to excess, but from the trailer, I can already say I love the underground/noir-neon settings.
TV SERIES
The Boys
Haven't watched the series yet, but from what I've gathered it basically arrogant and selfish superheroes against even more arrogant and selfish superheroes...this looks fun!
Let's wrap up with a k-drama about a police detective who forms a team with three convicts in order to catch the serial killer who also murdered his teenage daughter.
The setting is really dark and the shades of grey here go from dark to pitch black, meaning there's not a single good character, all of them are somehow shady.
So what do you think, did I miss some major villain in this list?
Let me know in the comments.
Ph: impawards.com, imdb.com & asianwiki.com
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