Antiheroes & Why Are They Better Than Heroes? | Video Essay
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- As an audience, we love gangsters. We love crime thrillers psychopaths and villainous origin stories. The Hero's Journey has been traversed many times, and watching the same good-guy story play out repeatedly can get tedious. We want a character who does the wrong thing but for the right reasons. We want a character who loses their marbles, commits a crime, makes mistakes, wreaks revenge, contradicts themselves, and changes their mind. These are what are known as antiheroes. To get a better feel for the intricacies of the antihero, we’re going to deep dive into three different examples, and examine ways in which they crossover: Patrick Bateman from American Psycho, Lou Bloom from Nightcrawler, and Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver.
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I wouldn't call Patrick an antihero. He's a murderous psychopath, and hasn't exactly done good.
The Punisher is an antihero. Patrick is just a murderer.
I believe there are more classifications to an anti-hero than, ultimately, whether they do good or not. Lou Bloom and Patrick Bateman are obsessively high-functioning, morally corrupt anti-heroes. Travis Bickle can be called a tragic anti-hero rather than a morally corrupt one. This use of 'anti-heroes' is also in tune with them being the central character of a film.
I tend to agree.
Patrick Bale is the protagonist of the story but that doesn't make him an anti-hero. The anti-hero must still have some characteristics of the hero. And there must be a possibility of redemption. So the protagonists like D-Fens, Michael Corleone, Scorsese's mobsters and so on. Are not anti-heroes. But we can't really call them bad guys because they aren't antagonists. I don't know if there is a name for an "evil protagonists"? Villain protagonist?
On the other hand, the characters in Clint Eastwood's films (Gran Torino, Richard Jewell,...) are anti-heroes. Walter White begins as an anti-hero but gradually becomes a villain.
Proper title should be: "Video Essays and how they have fallen as a medium"
This one is a great example of that.
Not a single antihero was discussed
I am pretty sure we discussed a total of three anti-heroes after an extended intro.
Dude put Patrik Bateman and deniro in Taxidriver on the tumbnail of a video on „anti heroes“….my brother in christ
They are, in fact, anti-heroes. Not every anti-hero ends up doing good at the end of the day. Some of them are morally corrupt, like Patrick Bateman or Lou Bloom, and some of them are more tragic, like Travis Bickle.
Rename it “antivillians”