Submitted by Noman11111 t3_10kn3di in movies
Just watched Die Hard With A Vengence for the 1000th time and my mother in law asked tht question... I was searching through IMDB and best I could find is Alfred in the Ben Afleck Batman movies and thats not really a great example... are there any others or is he just that perfect for playing the bad guy role?
I just saw that in IMDB and had to remind myself of the names for the musketeers... and.... thats it? Is that the ONLY example, lol
Night train to Lisbon can be listed. His character is not strictly a hero, but he does some good and generally moves the story.
I agree with your sentiment there are only few haha.
That's a fantastic fucking movie too.
Kingdom of Heaven.
Alfred in BvS and Justice League
Eragon.
While the movie is terrible in many ways.
Irons is probably the best part of the films and the only reason I wanted additional films.
Can confirm. Big fan of the books growing up and I hate that movie with a passion.
But it introduced me to Jeremy Irons and I will watch just about anything he is in now.
The Mission.
As I recall, he's a noble, kindhearted, pacifistic missionary in that movie.
Also Kingdom of Heaven and Man in the Iron Mask, as others have said. And he does technically save the day in Watchmen (2019), even if the character he's playing is more villain than hero.
Kingdom of Heaven! Yes, he was a good guy, great catch.
In Watchmen I'd say he was actually THE bad guy, but technically his motivations were to save the world...
His character was in the original Watchmen, but, in the new one, he's a little too removed from the plot to be THE bad guy. In my opinion, at least.
Sure, but its also the point that The Watchmen is intentionally complex in its defining of good and evil, but from a protagonist/antagonistic relationship you wouldn't say Adrian is the protagonist or hero of the show...
Regardless, I love all of Jeremy Irons characters, his most devious and evil the best!
I liked his part in Margin Call a lot. Not good or bad, just financially astute.
He’s almost nihilistic about it - listing off all the market crashes and then stating that we just can’t help ourselves. Not sure if that’s just lying to others or himself, but he comes across sincere in that it’s just a ride and he can’t control it any more than anyone else.
he save his company, and his own ass, but drowns many others.
"Please, speak as you might to a young child…or a golden retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you of that."
Red Sparrow. He turns out to be the mole (good guy). However, that role isn't a full length one though.
He plays morally good characters in the Mission, Man in the iron mask, Merchant of Venice, Kingdom of Heaven, Batman v Superman/Justice League, and Red sparrow.
I haven't seen most of his movies, but if you'll accept a mini series as an answer, he's not a villain in the old and excellent Brideshead Revisited series.
He plays Danny's father in the tv film adaptation of Roald Dahl's Danny, Champion of the World.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny,_the_Champion_of_the_World_(film)
All I know is that I’d listen to him read a Cheesecake Factory menu.
What I wouldn’t do to hear him say Buffalo Bleu Cheese Blasters.
Beautiful Creatures as the patriarch of the Ravenwoods
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"I think they’re more interesting, the characters, personally, so maybe I’m slightly drawn to them. Not that I delineate between good and bad, I think - most people just try to do the best that they can in the situation they’re in." - Jeremy Irons
Does Alfred count?
He's the best character in the DCEU
Danny, Champion of the World.
Of course. But I think there's a tendency from Hollywood to typecast english actors as villains. Could be because of the heritage of the british as modern conquerors (imperialism...) and the whole 'keep calm and carry on', 'stiff upper lip' thing...
Most don’t like it, but he plays Alfred in Batman V. Superman…
A lot of his period piece tv movies/mini-series have been relatively good guys.
Everybody likes him in it though.
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He's not a bad person in M. Butterfly, the less-celebrated of his two Cronenberg collaborations. Flawed, yes, and filled with inner conflict and self-loathing, but ultimately more sinned against than sinning. His final scene is absolutely heartbreaking.
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Not a movie but the excellent miniseries 'Longitude' (also stars Michael Gambon).
The Fourth Angel where he plays a vigilante hunting terrorists who killed his family
Night train to Lisbon - he plays a college lecturer who follows a troubled girl to Lisbon
He's the paranoid good-guy hero of the "period existential Bond Film" Kafka --directed by Steven Soderbergh.
He was the zoo snake in Harry Potter.
He was pretty damn wonderful in Brideshead revisited
Oh man, you wanna see Irons play a despicable character? Watch Lolita.
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He plays the priest in The Mission who doesnt resort to violence to protect the natives (unlike Robert De Niro). He is the ultimate good guy.
A lot of his younger roles were of a leading man, not a villain. A lot of them are smaller UK productions, so probably not that well known. Brideshead revisited, The French lieutenant’s woman, The mission, Damage, A chorus of disapproval (also starring Anthony Hopkins, a small British comedy)
Good call, my mother in law mentioned French Lieutenants Wife though I've never seen that movie
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Oh yeah, he played Aramis in the Man in the Iron mask.
One of the Musketeers is as much a hero as it gets.