Current stance, after a few weeks of contemplation. was Re: Why Do They Hate Us?

[Tom]

On 31 Oct 2001, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:

--]if the wide-ranging readership might offer some reconnaisance.  I've
--]been trying to track movies where the hero is a Redeeming Angel
--]instead of an Avenging Angel.  The architype is pretty darn rare,
--]although the one consistent producer of excellent tellings of such
--]heroic tails is the Pokemon crew.  To qualify for my catagorization,
--]the hero must leave the villian totally redeemed, without fault or
--]further blame, totally forgiven, ready and willing, and fully trusted
--]to become a positive contributor to the greater community.

Ok this is off the top of my head, there are probably a ton more.

With Actual Angels
----------------------------
Its A wonderfull LIfe (the villian was a state not a person)
Dogma (get teh dvd, man does smith do good dvd extras)
Hevan Can Wait (not the remakes)
Defending Your Life (not the obvious but still aprapos)

Non Actual Angels
------------------
Little Miss Marker (the shirley temple one and maybe the remake)
Jail House Rock (who was the angel? there are two)
3,000 Miles To Graceland (redemtion froma nd redemtion to)
African Queen (one of many journey to redemtion flicks)
Shawshank Redemption (its even in the title)
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (i gota get the dvd of this)
Groundhog Day (redemtion 24 hours at a time)



Redemtion at the End with payoffs for others
--------------------------------------------------
StarWars (hero turns villian is redemed near death and takes his place 
             with the forces of good)
Bad Lieutenant (Kitels character does the only act of redemtnion left even
                 though he could have done otherwise and does it for
                 the good of others)



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