Hasn't Outlaws always been Villains? Not really.
Robin Hood is probably will known to millions as the guy steals from the rich and give to the poor, the myth has been used in Films (famously by Kevin Costner, Walt Disney) and a recent BBC TV Series (Famously played by Jonas Armstrong).
Outlaws are known to be portrayed as a decent and honourable, is this because they only kill in pursuit or in revenge? Of course because as for an example the character Robin Hood would never steal where he came from as they had respect for the people they cared about. But are they Political? No! Because as the Robin Hood character shows he always fought for the rights and liberation of himself and the people who couldn't fight.
As for the Bandits.. . . . They aren’t so Nice.
‘Bonnie and Clyde’ and ‘Pretty Boy Floyd’ are just two examples of Bandits that didn’t care about the people they killed. By looking at the FBI files on 'Bonnie and Clyde' it shows how their backgrounds had links to crime to start with such as Bonnie was married to a 'imprisoner murderer' at 19 I ask myself what could have made get be married to a murderer was it the excitement of the crime? the excitement of the danger? When Bonnie and Clyde went on their 'Crime Spree' as the FBI files call it, they started out with low key crime such as on December 21 1933 they Robbed an innocent citizen and then gradually commited more dangerous crimes such as freeing prisoners on January 16 a year later I think this time space of events shows that they learnt to enjoy the rush they got when commiting the crimes and thats why they moved on quickly to the more worse crimes. As for Pretty Boy Floyd the proof of his evil crime can be shown in an article from the Eufaula Indian Journal in 1932 as it reports how he cold blooded murdered a sherff when caught by the sherff, the figure that 3500 !!! attended the popular sherffs funeral shows that Floyd didn't care who who he killed even if the victim was popular by locals.
Can bad guys really be good guys?
I don't think so as the saying goes 'a leopard will never change its spots' is kind of true but then again I also think that someone can change if they want to change, but I don't know if this can be said when talking about a criminal. when it comes to prison rehabilitation it is questionable whither it works or not as figures from Minstry of Justice shows that 'Adult re-offences fell 13%, from 167.9 re-offences per 100 offenders in 2005 to 146.1 in 2006. Between 2000 and 2006, the frequency of adult reoffending fell 22.9%.' I guess that rehabilitation can work in some cases but there are some cases when the rush of adrenaline gets so addictive that the criminal will always not care about the people they hurt.
As for in what contexts can villains become heroric figures????
When I think about it looking at the examples of when the criminal become champions of the weak like social bandits as stated in 'Bandits' by Eric Hobsbawn as that will result them in changing their lives. Am I wrong in being Optimistic or Should OUR law system change as I don't personally have any faith in our Justice system as the criminals don't really suffer like they should.
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