Talk:Villain (1971 film)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:45, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

The Kray Twins in one
Has it occurred to anyone that this film is essentially a meditation on the problem of the Kray Twins? The problem being, how does one account for an individual who is ruthless and entirely self-serving, with apparently no attachment to the rest of society, nor any saving virtues whereby he might be redeemed?

The characterisation of Dakin as a homosexual also marks him out as another "problem": a person who embodies the tough, self-reliant qualities which society usually admires the criminal for (albeit as a transgressive antihero); while being sexually against the grain of society's norm, and very masculine, entirely unlike the still-prevalent stereotype. He is a fictive Ronnie Kray: pitiless, violent, attractive, repugnant.

Nuttyskin (talk) 01:22, 5 February 2019 (UTC)