Sheen and Spacek in Badlands?
Penn in The Thin Red Line?
Richard Gere and Sam Shepherd in Days of Heaven?

This is literally how "banality of evil" came into being. By creating excuses for people below the line - he's a creation of his culture, he's just giving them what they want, if he doesn't do it someone else will, there's still good in what he does that's unrelated to this specific shitty thing he does, "it's not…

@avclub-fe667cc638187e2a2ed9661c0b94f457:disqus You … you ate him?

The demon in the Exorcist. Goddamn thinking about it now is giving me chills.

A completely inappropriate attraction in both of its incarnations.

Altman beat that archetype to death in Brewster McCloud. Michael Murphy was great in that.