You weren't supposed to be rooting for either, only trying to understand them and learn from their mistakes.
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The bad guy is whoever wrote the script.
The good guys were the actors who managed to speak some of the silliest dialogue lines without breaking into laugh.
Still a fun movie to watch. It was my favorite movie when it came out, but of course, I was very young at the time.
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I kept expecting the Orca to sprout legs and start carrying an uzi. The movie felt like "Death Wish" for Marine Animals. As for who was worse I just don't know.

Not sure who we are supposed to be rooting for here. But I will say one thing. The Orca seems to know his way around a glacier. Somehow I think that if it comes to an Ice Bucket Challenge, the Orca will emerge the winner!

I started out rooting for the whale, but he turned into an a$$hole too, so nobody to root for in this film.
the whale spends his life trying to get revenge against the evil man, but in the process the whale becomes the very monster it's trying to destroy.
Very well put. I lost all sympathy for the orca when he bit Annie's leg off.

Oh, come on! The whale, of course, because nature wins out over man. Also, Charlotte Rampling is wandering around the Arctic in designer clothes not appropriate for below zero temperatures and you don't think that's cheesy? That's what makes this movie so much fun!

Honestly, seeing Dino De Laurentiis' name on the movie did make me think of this as some sort of weird Death Wish film.
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Nolan was also a victim. He had guilt over not doing anything to the drunk driver that killed his wife and son and wrongly thought the orca's actions showed more love for its family than he did for his. His wrong attitude made him a victim. I felt sorry for him.
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Orca and his family were the victims here, and his actions are similar to Paul Kersey's from
Death Wish
I & II!
Underrated film is effective and surprisingly melancholy; great score by Ennio Morricone.

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I've always maintained this movie is a reverse Moby Dick. - Lunchbox-3
I'm sure this movie was pitched to Paramount as, "It's
Jaws
meets
Moby Dick
!"
If I were a comedian, I'd incorporate myself so I could become a laughingstock.

I've always maintained this movie is a reverse Moby Dick. A man harms a whale and the whale spends his life trying to get revenge against the evil man, but in the process the whale becomes the very monster it's trying to destroy.
Of course Nolan doesn't put up a fight, he lets himself be killed because he knows he's in the wrong, so he's not really that evil.

Yeah, many good characters on that show!
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Ha! I was always kinda partial to the crazy Vietnam vet character myself, "I think you are gonna hire that guy!" and the English perv Niles Standish, "Betty, I could get you on the guest list. How does that sound?"
Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown

Yes, that's from the awesome Special Ed character!
YAAAAAY! Now you go, lady!

Is your signature from Crank Yankers?
Peace is not the absence of affliction, but the presence of God. ~Author Unknown

That goes without saying. Her uncast leg looked mighty fine!
YAAAAAY! Now you go, lady!

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Definitely not Richard Harris. I started out rooting for the whale, but he turned into an a$$hole too, so nobody to root for in this film.
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Well, I'm still in the first scene - 30 min mark - and Charlotte Rampling (whose character represents scientific knowledge) and Will Sampson (whose character represents native wisdom) are both telling him what an idiot he is, so we may feel a twinge or two for Harris, but already I know he's a deaf fool who gets what he's got coming to him.

Exactly.
What do you think this is, a signature? It's a way of life!

I agree. Both have suffered loss in some shape or form.

Nobody, there are no good or bad guys in this movie, it's just a tragic movie.

"I recommend you go watch Jurassic Park (hint: the dinosaurs are the "bad guys")."
Technically, in JP, the humans are still the bad guys as the dinosaurs are just being dinosaurs. I mean, none of the dinos went against mother nature and brought back an extinct species and put them into a zoo for entertainment.
Btw, I'm just having a laugh so don't this comment seriously.
LOL, that's true haha
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