7. Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
I bet this entry caught you by surprise! Sure, for the most of Fight Club we followed the impossibly beautiful Brad Pitt (who made this good looking guy feel as handsome as the back end of the bus, in comparison) but he was leading the destruction of the free world. Up to this point he was an anti-hero for sure, but Im pretty sure the cops, the administrators at the liposuction clinics, and the hotel that caught him peeing in customers soup would say he's quite a heinous dude. Then, when its revealed hes a figment of Ed Nortons imagination, he becomes the classic villain-who-must-be-stopped. But despite all this, we want Tyler to succeed. For one simple reason - what he says is true. Eg:
I see all this potential, and I see squandering An entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy s**t we dont need.Were the by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things dont concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guys name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra. I mean, is anything more sobering than:
This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. We want Tyler to succeed because he speaks the truth. The undeniable truth. The unspoken truth that we dont acknowledge - that we arent even aware is festering in the dark recesses of our minds; in the pits of our stomachs. No matter how unpallatable it may be. Most of all, we want him to succeed because he is the ultimate version of ourselves. As the great man says himself:
all the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you wanna look, I f**k like you wanna f**k, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are not".