First we have Autolycus, played by Bruce Campbell, on Hercules: the Legendary Journeys, and Xena: Warrior Princess. He'd steal from his own mother, and probably has.
Next up is Captain Jack Sparrow, played by Johnny Depp in the three Pirates of the Caribbean movies. "You're the worst pirate I've ever heard of," Norrington says, upon first capturing him. "But you 'ave heard of me," Sparrow says.
So--assuming they don't simply join forces and just bamboozle the whole world, which one is the better Thief-Trickster-Scoundrel, and why?
Both reprobates typically need their friends to bail them out of physical trouble, and both are silver-tongued devils to get themselves out of social trouble. Spsrrow wins on stunt budget, as his pratfalls are more spectacular, but Autolycus's mishaps can affect everyone from the lowest peasant to the mightiest god. Plus, there's settings to take into account. Sparrow's strengths lie in the open seas whereas Autolycus is more prevalent on terra firma. So I say it's a tie, and we have to break the tie with the coolness factor of their other roles. In that case, Bruce Campbell wins because he had a chainsaw for a hand in the Evil Dead movies.
ReplyDeleteJack Sparrow, for the totally bogus and illogical reason that I would bang him like a screen door in a hurricane.
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