What an amazing movie. I'm trying to think of another movie with a male hero who has a developed, morally virtuous character.
Captain America, maybe?
Captain America, maybe?
That's a good list.Ulrich said:
I feel like a LOT of movies are about testing a character's moral code, so in that sense almost every drama I can think of passes your test. For movies where the character has such rock solid moral fiber that he is completely defined by it and testing it doesn't make a convincing story line...
Captain America
Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
Aragorn and Sam in LOTR
Coach Boone in Remember the Titans
William Wallace in Braveheart
Solomon Vandy in Blood Diamond
Maximus in Gladiator
I almost put Luke Skywalker in there even though he nearly failed his test in ROTJ, but The Last Jedi kills that argument. Rocky gets there and I could make a spirited argument in his favor, but he was a petty criminal at one point, so i could also argue against him.
Obviously only including main characters.
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another movie with a male hero who has a developed, morally virtuous character
Does Rance Stoddard count?Quote:
I'm trying to think of another movie with a male hero who has a developed, morally virtuous character.
The Debt said:
You've never heard of the controversy of high noon?
American westerns are the embodiment of the rugged individualist. A man uses his values and innate strength to overcome evil on the frontier.
In High Noon, they tossed that out the window. There is a ticking clock until evil approaches, and Gary Cooper spends the entire film going from house to house begging someone to stand with him against the sinister gang approaching. Everyone has an excuse not to.
It's a film where all the good people are cowards and subvert the genre by rejecting the underpinning of the culture.
Take that in comparison to Eastwoods Fistful of Dollars where he takes on two gangs at the same time.
Took an American Film Class at A&M and we watched High Noon with the understanding that the screenwriter was blacklisted during the McCarthy years. It is a powerful and personal movie.Emotional Support Cobra said:The Debt said:
You've never heard of the controversy of high noon?
American westerns are the embodiment of the rugged individualist. A man uses his values and innate strength to overcome evil on the frontier.
In High Noon, they tossed that out the window. There is a ticking clock until evil approaches, and Gary Cooper spends the entire film going from house to house begging someone to stand with him against the sinister gang approaching. Everyone has an excuse not to.
It's a film where all the good people are cowards and subvert the genre by rejecting the underpinning of the culture.
Take that in comparison to Eastwoods Fistful of Dollars where he takes on two gangs at the same time.
It just occurred to me that High Noon is an allegory of The Little Red Hen.