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zddy wrote
Alien? The crew is on a commercial ship.
mofongo wrote (edited )
They live.
Matilda.
Snowpiercer.
Parasyte (2019).
The Robinsons.
The Incredibles.
The Mask.
Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind.
The Truman Show.
Bruce Almighty.
Dumb and Dumber.
Clockwork Orange.
Dogma.
Inside Out.
Life of Brian.
My Neighbor Totoro.
All Spiderman movies.
Hunger Games (the first one at least).
zddy wrote
The incredibles were part of a government backed mercenary group though.
And spiderman is essentially law enforcement. If you go with him then you need to include the rest of the MCU.
Unless there is a different reasoning behind spiderman.
mofongo wrote
My reasoning with spiderman is that he's usually a working class kid from a working class neighborhood.
OdiousOutlaw wrote (edited )
The original Star Wars trilogy.
Luke starts off as a simple farm boy; is eventually taught the ways of an old religion by two survivors of a government backed genocide and coup; opposes a galactic scale, human supremacist empire; finds out that his own father is a high ranking officer in the empire; and rejects whatever temptations of power and privilege that he was offered by his father; and basically spits in the eye of the emperor himself after the latters failed attempts at manipulating him.
It's too bad the colonialist themes of the empire aren't really explored until Mandalorian came out.
EDIT: Aw, shit; I forgot about the fact that the Ewoks were able to fend off a well armed, trained military force with superior technology using a combination stones, trees, and spears.
ziq OP wrote
Serenity has similar anti-state themes but better than Star Wars because they're not fighting to build a new Republic.
kin wrote
Run Lola Run - despite of the protagonist is the daughter of some capitalist she is very proletarian to me.
The Edukators - working class heros, in my modest opinion
zddy wrote
Accepted.
Bunch of people break into a building and turn it into a decentralised student based learning center.
ziq OP wrote
Just making this post because I want to mention the action movie Unstoppable. In almost all action movies, the hero is either a cop, a solider, a fed or some other arm of the state.
Die Hard: Cop.
Speed: Cop.
True Lies: Fed.
Point Break: Fed.
Predator: Soldiers.
Mission Impossible: Fed.
Kingsman: Feds.
James Bond: Fed.
Face/Off: Fed.
Under Siege: Soldier.
Commando: Soldier.
Demolition Man: Cop.
Beverly Hills Cop: Cop.
Lethal Weapon: Cops.
Rush Hour: Cops.
Robocop: Cop.
First Blood: Soldier (this one gets a pass tho because he's a veteran killing cops)
In Unstoppable the heroes who have to stop the runaway train laden with toxic chemicals are workers and the only villains are capitalists (their bosses who are trying to fuck over the older worker). The cops in the movie are useless.
The other action movie I can think of where the hero is a working stiff is Sarah Connor in Terminator/Terminator 2/Dark Fate. She's a waitress in the first one, a prisoner of a mental institution in the 2nd and an armed-to-the-teeth drifter in the 3rd.