antihero = common or everyday man who 'bucks' the 'system' ie. goes against the mainstream rules of accepted modern society's values.
i would agree strongly with jNj and add the following :
1. the stranger from any of the early sergio westerns
2. james dean from Rebel Without A Cause
3. kelly from Kelly's Heros
4. cpt. virgil (steve mcqueen) "the cooler king" from The Great Escape
5. paccino in Dog Day Afternoon
and though i wouldn't put him on my top 20 list of great antiheros, yeah even napoleon.
[quote="Short Hand":16175]Could Oskar Schindler is Schindler's Liist makeit in ?[/quote:16175]
good point but no; that is the everyman finding his morals after living a life of greed and earthliness. it's the St. Paul on the road to Damascus syndrome.
No, Not our anti hero, tho he generally rules all. Who is the best movie anti hero? Id say Achilles from Troy
Achilles is not an anti-hero, he is a hero in the true classical sense... this means he posseses the qualities which define a hero in an epic story, in this case Achilles conforms to the Homeric Hero formula, which in part is based on his mythical actions...