I say the good guys because, well, Leeloo.
(Except the white cowboy hats. They kinda suck.)
Hans Gruber had great taste in suits.
Given the choice between Harkonnen livery and a stillsuit fitted desert-fashion, I’d take the stillsuit.
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In Star Wars, at least, the Empire outclassed everyone else by a light-year. They definitely had good fashion sense.
The Nazis, similarly, were really slick.
On Deadwood, Cy Tolliver’s outfits were definitely classier than that grey and black striped suit that Al Swearingen wore every single day.
The bad guys usually dress better.
Yeah, but you have to be in really great shape to wear a stillsuit. Harkonnen clothes look good even on big guys.
I’ve always found it odd that the Nazi’s were one of the few groups to really nail the fashion thing. The Romans, the Greeks, the Aztecs, the French, even the Communists - not so much, but man, those Nazis had the fashion, the torchlit rallies, the whole deal. Why? Why were they so very good it?
James Bond dresses nicer than Blofeld.
Bad guys.
And I hate to say it, but you all are right. The Nazis dressed sharp.
The Greeks and Romans had pretty good military fashions. I mean, when you’re talking about Nazi fashion, what you’re really talking about is military fashion, and the Nazis definitely pulled it off with style. The Soviets had some decent uniforms too. The Communists never really looked as good as the Nazis because the Nazis had better color contrast. The Soviet uniforms were more drab. The best Nazi uniforms were undoubtedly the black SS uniforms, which featured white shirts and armbands with red, black and white on them. That combination of colors never fails to look good. The brown Nazi uniforms didn’t look as good but even those had the swastika armbands that provided a flash of color. The Nazis also used Sam Browne belts, which can make almost anyone look good.
Bad guy, unless you’re in The Matrix, in which case the bad guys dressed in boring suits like your standard civil service employees, whereas the good guys had bad ass outfits.
I was going to mention the Matrix exception as well, and also add your standard Angels vs Devils. Devils in the real world would have the edge over angels, but in a supernatural setting, wings and armor look a lot cooler than slavering fangs and ripped denimy rags.
Acid wash looks cool on no one.
The Bad Guys do dress more cool, but the requirements of outfitting your basic GI in leather instead of the USA cloth accouterments was a factor in not being to make enough stuff to win the war.
Why do the Russkies and Chinese military guys have such big officer caps compared to the Americans?
Hm, now that you mention the brown shirts, another possibility rears its head. The SA was way less stylish (and they had a terrible, comic-booky logo) than the SS and so…their leaders were killed and they were disbanded in the Night of the Long Knives. Nazi style was a function of profound selection pressure. Only the ruthlessly stylish survived.
Man, I could probably work this into a doctoral thesis.
Leeloo? Mila Jovovich’s character in The Fifth Element, who wore an orange rubber crotch harness?
This reminds me of the Natl. Lampoon article “Nazi Fashion” or something like that. “It’s Heil, High Style! in this Summer’s Latest…blah, blah.” Pretty funny.
Another thing that is rarely noted with favor is the Nazi dominated dark blue suit, white shirt, and black tie. A bit minimalist, but tres chic.
The brownshirts’ uniform *were *pretty good, but, compared to Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler, they, indeed, were just begging be put down.
Let’s see…Russkies weren’t too bad, in their Sunday goin’ to self-accusation meetin’ clothes; I think that for the really good styles, the tyrant’s always have it hands down over everybody else, but the Nazis were, undisputedly, the Master Race of fashion. Of course, they had Hugo Boss on their side.
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Yeah… I’ll be in my bunk.
I think in general the “good guy vs. bad guy” dynamic in film comes from the idea that the good guy is essentially the underdog. The underdog is typically portrayed as being less well-equipped and by extension not as well-dressed. And then you have the big bad evil organization which is…well…big and organized and has better funding. Which usually = better uniforms and more sophisticated toys.
The exception to this would be the stories where the combatants are both big, powerful organizations. Like in James Bond.
Maiira: That was very astute. I never thought about it that way, but youi’re right.
In addition to Leeloo, I always thought the Highlander from the TV series, with his drums and his leather duster, was hot. And speaking of leather dusters, I guess ol’ Spike counts as a good guy, too. Good enough, heh.