AFI's list of 100 Heros & Villians

AFI, a group of otherwise nobodies, has done it again with a list of the top 50 good guys and bad buys in movies.

Remember that AFI asks ordinary movie-goers what they think, so the list is skewed towards recent movies (e.g. 50. General Maximus Decimus Meridus, from Gladiator for a good guy and 50. Alonzo Harris, Training Day for a bad guy). I *am* gratified to see that Han Solo and Obi-Wan Kenobi are on the list but Luke Skywalker is not. I have my own private list, but many of them are on this:

2. Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark
3. James Bond, Dr. No
4. Rick Blaine, Casablanca
5. Will Kane, High Noon
14. Han Solo, Star Wars
17. Harry Callahan, Dirty Harry
20. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
26. Superman, Superman
29. General George Patton, Patton
36. Rooster Cogburn, True Grit
37. Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars
40. Frank Serpico, Serpico
44. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle, The French Connection

I'm glad to see that other people have slightly the same taste I have (except that they put some of the bad guys in the good guy list and good guys in the bad list):

GOOD WHO SHOULD BE BAD
10. T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia

BAD WHO SHOULD BE GOOD

9. Regan MacNeil, The Exorcist
11. Michael Corleone, The Godfather Part II