Frank is exactly the kind of guy — smart, cocky, very cute and fully deluded — who thinks he can breeze
through the badness and eventually live a different life.
Not exact matches
The consequences of personal goodness and
badness are not confined to the individual; they spill over
through multitudinous channels into other persons and into society at large.
What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or
badness) is unclear as the «good» is just as bad as the «ugly,» but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing
through this film on their way to another.
It's a good thing, too — Flynn's casual performance is helped by Curtiz's ability to keep his star under constant threat from well - drawn villains (big heavy Bruce Cabot is square jawed and smug; character actor / sidekick Victor Jory is the epitome of dumb, single - minded
badness) and from civilization run amok (random gunfights popping up all over; children getting dragged
through the street tied to horses).
I'm hoping my
Badness still comes
through, though..