Blondie is “good” at what he does: hitting what he aims at.
What about the original Tarantino bad guy movie: Reservoir Dogs?
The cops are definitely good guys.
The cops Nash and Mr. Orange are definitely good guys. I wouldn’t include it.
I would argue that Nash is really more of a prop than a character, and Orange seems to me to be a bad cop. But I see your point
How is Orange a bad cop?
Speaking of Reservoir Dogs, it never made any sense to me that Joe would hold a meeting with the crew in a public place like a busy diner. Everyone is going to notice six guys dressed identically, and remember them and the fact that they were with Joe and Eddie, once the news of the robbery breaks. Why hire six guys who don’t know each other and then make sure that they are recognizable as part of the same crew?
Well, he killed a woman and blew his cover to White. If he’d survived he’d probably be up on multiple charges.
And Mr. White has a redemption arc.
That’s why it’s important to leave a good tip.
The Ice Harvest
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but…
Orange participates in the robbery, and doesn’t reveal himself when it all goes terribly wrong. Blonde certainly doesn’t know he’s a cop. And he kills a civilian, iirc. I always took from the movie that he was part of the reason why the robbery went south. He’s just not good at his job. Maybe he sees himself as a good guy, but he’s not very good at it.
But maybe that’s just me.
I forgot that he killed a woman.
How so? He kills Mr. Orange at the end.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched, but wasn’t that a mercy killing.
Ok, I’ll concede that Orange was not a good character. Of course, he wasn’t expecting the robbery to go wrong. Probably his best move after that would be to kill White when they were fleeing together and then alert the police.
No, it was revenge after Orange revealed he was an undercover cop.
Fury, a 1936 Friz Lang movie starring Spencer Tracy. He’s traveling across country to meet up with his fiancée and because of circumstantial evidence is arrested for a kidnap-murder. The town catches wind of it and storms the jail eventually setting fire to it and throwing in a stick of dynamite.
He managed to escape though, goes back to his brothers and they cook up a scheme to indict members of the mob for murder rather than show himself. The whole town is playing dumb but between newsreel footage and testimony from his fiancée who saw his face at the jail window moments before the explosion – she doesn’t know he’s still alive – 22 members of the mob are brought to a mass trial.
It’s only as the guilty verdicts are being read does he show up in the courtroom to express remorse.
“I don’t care anything about saving them. They’re murderers. I know the law says they’re not because I’m still alive, but that’s not their fault. And the law doesn’t know that a lot of things that were very important to me, silly things maybe like a belief in justice and an idea that men were civilized and a feeling of pride that this country of mine was different from all others. The law doesn’t know that those things were burned to death within me that night”.
The sheriff might have been more sympathetic because he kept telling the townspeople the man he arrested isn’t guilty of anything until a trail is held, but folds when he gets word that the national guard is not on it’s way after all. During the trial he claims he can’t identify anyone on the mob, “They must have all been from out of town.”
We kinda did this a couple weeks ago.
Well…I think the whole point is that we, the audience, are given conflicting clues to all of the “colors” of what is good and bad.
“Why can’t we pick out our own colors?” — “I tried that once, it don’t work. You get four guys fighting over who’s gonna be Mr. Black.”