Best bad guys we love
I have been thinking about the differences between the sexes and recently posted about who makes a better killer - a man or a woman. But not every character is a killer. Some characters are just bad. Which leads me to wonder what type of man makes the best bad guy. Now we all know there are the real bad guys and then there are the bad guys we can't help but love. I'm more interested in the second type.
In Pulp Fiction, which was a book before it was a movie (yes, it really was!), who didn't find John Travolta's character somehow lovable? How about the men in The Godfather? Again, I am picturing the movie version rather than the novel but the very young Al Pacino was sexy in his own way.
What about the alcoholic, womanizing Cormoran Strike from Robert Gailbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling (which I reviewed in a prior post)? You may not fall in love with him but despite his many flaws you may be drawn to him. We know that he's a good guy despite the surface bad boy. He served his country and was wounded, he believes in his new assistant to the point where he later "promotes" her and he loved a woman who drove him crazy.
There is something inherently sexy about a bad boy. We know he's going to lead us astray but what what fun we will have doing it. What woman doesn't want to try to heal what ails him and prove to him, as much as to everyone else, that she has the power to convert him to good?
Who would be your favorite bad boy and why?
Happy trails,
Leslie
In Pulp Fiction, which was a book before it was a movie (yes, it really was!), who didn't find John Travolta's character somehow lovable? How about the men in The Godfather? Again, I am picturing the movie version rather than the novel but the very young Al Pacino was sexy in his own way.
What about the alcoholic, womanizing Cormoran Strike from Robert Gailbraith's The Cuckoo's Calling (which I reviewed in a prior post)? You may not fall in love with him but despite his many flaws you may be drawn to him. We know that he's a good guy despite the surface bad boy. He served his country and was wounded, he believes in his new assistant to the point where he later "promotes" her and he loved a woman who drove him crazy.
There is something inherently sexy about a bad boy. We know he's going to lead us astray but what what fun we will have doing it. What woman doesn't want to try to heal what ails him and prove to him, as much as to everyone else, that she has the power to convert him to good?
Who would be your favorite bad boy and why?
Happy trails,
Leslie
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