Can we name movies, based on real people, where someone is shown as a good guy in one, and bad guy in the other?
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October 3rd, 2021
For example, They Died With Their Boots On and Little Big Man show Custer in opposite lights.
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Can you give one more example?
With more known movies?
Please?
The KKK: “good” guys in Birth of a Nation, bad guys in Mississippi Burning, A Time to Kill, Blazing Saddles, and just about every other movie in which they’re mentioned.
The Joker: Bad guy in all the Batguy movies. “Good” guy for about 2 hours in Suicide Squad (2016).
Whoops- just discovered that the Joker is not a real person. :p
Well, we get two different Henry II’s in Lion in Winter and Becket. Interestingly, played both times by Peter O’Toole.
Superman.
Good guy in most films, bad guy in the Injustice game.
To answer the question, the Patriots. Apparently this movie wants to portray them as some crazy hooligans.
@Mimishu1995
I thought about him, and I agree that he was a VoS, but he was just one teeny weeny little assassination past my good guy-bad guy dividing line. ;-)
However, given your avatar, I can see where that would make him a good guy to you. :p
@Brian yeah. I can see that some of his behavior isn’t exactly saintly either like that time when he chases a guy to shoot him after his friends beat him up, even though the guy is obviously running away in terror. The movie tries to make him all innocent though :P
@Mimishu1995
Did he shoot any of the other guys that beat him up?
@Brian yes. He kills all of them. Then when the final guy gets so scared and runs away he chases after him and empties his cartridge.
I was rooting for him all the way. But then that scene happened and I lost a lot of my sympathy for him.
I might possibly have my Kings mixed up. But I believe Edward III of England has been portrayed both ways in film, as @kneesox has stated that Henry II has been. In The Black Rose, an old Tyrone Power swashbuckler about a sort of an English Marco Polo, he is portrayed a a decent monarch. In Brabeheart, he is portrayed as a psycho asshole, more the accepted version of the “Hammer of the Scots”. Call it poetic licence I suppose.
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In Breaking Bad, Brian Cranston changes more times than the Terminator.
I’m going to take a wild guess here on two films.
“Patton” was fascinating and made him look obsessive in his desires. There must be other films that paint a prettier picture.
“The Wizard of Oz”. The wicked witch of the west was evil. Have they made a movie yet based on the book “Wicked”? THAT paints a story of her real character.
In Lincoln, Thaddeus Stevens (played by Tommy Lee Jones) is a well intentioned good guy.
In Tennessee Johnson, Stevens (played by Lionel Barrymore) is an evil, power hungry conniving monster.
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