What follows are some of the greatest revenge films from the 1940s to the present. If filmmakers actually cared about such questions, they’d find more success as philosophers or psychologists, because the fact is that audiences LOVE revenge movies.įrom the Wild West to the present, American mythology has seen the outlaw vigilante justice-seeker as heroic, because he or she operates under “natural law” rather than manmade law, and sometimes manmade law stands in the way of taking justice into your own hands. If you really think about it, “justice” is really a nice word for “revenge.” Or, viewed from another angle, “revenge” is just an illegal form of “justice.”Įven though we’re taught from childhood that “two wrongs don’t make a right,” why is it that audiences cheer when a victim strikes back ten times as hard against their attacker? Why is it considered a good thing when someone avenges a murder by torturing the killer and then murdering them? A still from Straw Dogs (1971), a violent revenge film by Sam Peckinpah.
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