Showing posts with label redheads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label redheads. Show all posts

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Redheads as Villains

A few months ago, it felt like everywhere I turned, someone was talking about redheads*. Redheads were being bullied:




Sperm banks were shutting us out and redheads kept popping up in movies I was watching as villains. So, with all of this negative redhead content in my mind, I thought it'd be fun to make a list of movies that feature a redhead as the villain (or a villain). I'm sure I've missed a bunch, so feel free to add to the list in the comments. In no particular order:

The Incredibles

Ghostbusters
Children of the Corn

The Iron Giant
Ferris Bueller
       -- Honestly, I could probably just load this list up with Jeffrey Jones appearances, but I'll leave it at one. Same goes for William Atherton in Ghostbusters.
A Christmas Story

House II: The Second Story
Batman Forever

*I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge how weird it is that we call them "redheads." We don't call people "blond heads" or "brunette heads" and "black heads**" has an entirely different meaning. Red heads are already set aside as other just by the way we refer them.


**Honestly, I'm not really sure what you call someone with black hair. I'm going to call them "noirs" from now on.