Word: antihero
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer. The film echoes Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, but with less hysteria and a more intricate plot. For its quintet of thieves lusting for the big score, The Usual Suspects convenes five scarred souls, including a chatty gimp (Spacey) and an anguished antihero (Byrne). In California on a quick job, they run up against a vicious, unseen ganglord named Keyser Soze-a name that has the smolder of Satan in it. One by one, the thieves...
...tend to overlook Jordan's foibles, e.g. his gambling habits, just as we forget that Tyson was once capable of compassion and erudition. There is little doubt that basketball and boxing can use them, but as a society we may need them even more, as hero and antihero, Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader, Air and Iron...
John Yossarian, the reluctant bombardier and principled antihero of Catch- 22, is back, older -- he is 68 -- and still trying to convince doctors -- this time at a posh Manhattan hospital rather than at a military clinic on the Italian island of Pianosa -- that he is sick. Yossarian remains wary and weary of a world that holds out the prospect of his own death: "I wish the daily newspapers were smaller and came out weekly." After successful careers in advertising and on Wall Street, he does consulting work for Catch-22's amoral entrepreneur, Milo Minderbinder. Milo, no surprise, now owns...
...fallen angels such power to tempt humankind. If humankind was created just a little lower than the angels, what are we to make of an angel who has failed? Is he then not just like us -- yet immortally so? For poets like Milton, Satan was the archetypal antihero, the rebel waging eternal guerrilla warfare against his Creator. "To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n." Indeed, to some, Satan even provides lessons in piety. The Sufis, the mystics of Islam, imagined that the pride of Iblis may have been blind...
...problem by turning to a trio of cliche badass pursuits: cross-country wandering (the show's sole set is a highway), crime (involving, naturally, suitcases of white powder) and moviemaking. Of these, Korder presents the cinema as the most corrupt; it takes an impromptu murder to get the antihero really launched as a mogul...