From Goodfellas’ trigger-happy Tommy DeVito to Scarface’s drug-addled Tony Montana, the crime movie genre is jam-packed with evil gangster characters. Gangster movies are a great vehicle for traditionally villainous characters to take center stage as the protagonist. The Warriors, for instance, has one street gang as the heroes and all the other street gangs as the villains. In any other movie, Pulp Fiction’s Vincent Vega would be the bad guy. But Pulp Fiction puts Vincent in the spotlight. The Irishman similarly wants its audience to empathize with a mafia hitman, because he was forced to whack his best friend.
10 Most Despicable Movie Gangsters Of All Time
