The Angry Young Man Trope, Explained

Get a full month of MUBI FOR FREE: https://mubi.com/thetake (With the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union) | Who gets to be angry? The “angry young man” trope came onto the scene as a working class anti-hero but has recently morphed into a social villain. In the 50s to the 70s, British angry young men like Look Back in Anger's Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), Saturday Night and Sunday Morning's Arthur Seaton (Albert Finney) and Clockwork Orange's Alex (Malcolm McDowell) challenged the upper-class focus of cinema. Over the years iconic angry young men around the globe played by Robert De Niro, Amitabh Bachchan, Spike Lee, Edward Norton and more became voices of disruptive political protest -- some listened to and validated more than others. Recently, the figure has evolved into a controversial villain, as seen in Joker (Joaquin Phoenix) and Star Wars’s Kylo Ren (Adam Driver). More women and people of color are finally seeing their anger expressed onscreen and received with legitimacy, notable examples including Black Panther's Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan) and Dear White People's Reggie (Marque Richardson). Here’s our Take on the Angry Young Men (and increasingly Women) of film and TV, and the politics of anger as protest. If you like this video, subscribe to our channel or support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thetake

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A Clockwork Orange (1971)
American History X (1998)
The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951-1953)
Bad Girls Club (2006-2017)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Black Caesar (1973)
Black Panther (2018)
Black-ish (2014-)
Brief Encounter (1945)
Clockers (1995)
Dear White People (2017-)
Deewaar (1975)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Fight Club (1999)
Fish Tank (2009)
Friday Night Lights (2006-2011)
Fruitvale Station (2013)
No Time To Die (2020)
Game of Thrones (2011-2019)
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
If.... (1968)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Joker (2019)
Kaalia (1981)
Key & Peele (2012-2015)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
La Haine (1995)
Look Back in Anger (1959)
Lucky Jim (1957)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
Mandingo (1975)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966)
Nil By Mouth (1997)
Oliver Twist (1948)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Raging Bull (1980)
Sanford and Son (1972-1977)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
Taxi Driver (1976)
The Avengers (2012)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Celebrity Apprentice (2008-2017)
The Hate U Give (2018)
The King of Comedy (1982)
The Littlest Rebel (1935)
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Thelma & Louise (1991)
This Is England (2006)
This Sporting Life (1963)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Wasp (2003)
Within Our Gates (1920)
Zanjeer (1973)
Ozark (2017-)
New Girl (2011-2018)

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