There Will Be Blood

Schindler's List.

How about Les Miserable and Tommy Boy?

A three part trilogy? The first half of the book is pretty much character development.



 

In Sahara, the rich guy (and his company/team) are somewhat do-gooders.

Of course, they are offset by the evil corporation they butt heads with... but still.

What about Robo-Cop?  One of the board members was dirty, but the company as a whole had good intentions.

They were the good guys, up against Zalinsky's auto parts, a Big Bad Corporation.

The pursuit of profit over the good of the community is always a good boogie man for Hollywood.

Those characters were individuals, not a large group of people/multiple companies.
Example : Batman had to be rich to have funding for his cool toys because as a regular man he had no classic super powers. Batman's wealth is almost a MacGuffin, else Bruce Wayne would be Kick-Ass and not Batman.



 

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?



Weren't the Umpa Lumpas slave labor or at the very least undocumented workers?  

uh oh. somebody saw a shittty resident evil sequel and is here to vent..
amimirite?

Bubba Gump took care of Blue's momma.

Haha..called it.



I just love that the Umbrella Corporation is pure evil. There are probably liberals out there that think that Haliburton has a series of bunkers like that.

'Local Hero'

In "Endgame" (based on a true story about the end of Apartheid), Michael Young is an executive of Consolidated Goldmines who facilitates secret meetings between the ANC and the South African government.

Hotel Rwanda.

Yes! Childs play 2. The factory helped kill Chucky at the end of the movie

Does The Insider count?

CBS as the good guy, Tobacco industry as the evil one.

Soylent Green. They fed people.

Don't forget Monsters Inc, after Sullivan took over as CEO.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The original one, a little crazy but definitely the good guy.

Has Mc.Donalds been said yet?

Okay the movie/documentary Super Size me they made good on their word.

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I can think of one...

Weyland Yutani Corporation.  I think they specialize in immigration.

Tucker

mini-hijack, but didn't ya love how the villian in the last Resident Evil movie was like this combination of all evil characters from all movies.. he had the corperate suit, all black clothing, jack boots, dark glasses he wears indoors, sinister accent, etc  

No.

Wow, what a stretch.  Of course they were corporations.  Are you buying in to the hippie idea that corporations are faceless entities, and not the result of personal ambition, entrepreneurial spirit, and financial achievement?
 

Yes.  That one with James Cagney as the head of Coca-Cola in West Germany who is babysitting his boss' 17 year old daughter.  She falls for a communist from East Germany and James Cagney has to straighten everything out without losing his job.  Coca-Cola was portreyed as a great place to work and as bringing democracy to the eastern communists....actually a funny movie....set right after WW2 so some of the german coke employees were former nazis denying their past and yet still clicking heals to orders being snapped out by Cagney.

Coke was portreyed in a good way in that film.

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Home > Library > Entertainment & Arts > MoviesDirector: Billy Wilder
AMG Rating:
Genre: Comedy
Movie Type: Farce, Political Satire
Themes: Americans Abroad, Nothing Goes Right, Crumbling Marriages
Main Cast: James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Liselotte Pulver
Release Year: 1961
Country: US
Run Time: 110 minutes
Plot
In his last starring film (it was supposed to be his last film, but Ragtime came along in 1981), James Cagney plays Coca-Cola executive C.R. MacNamara. Assigned to manage Coke's West Berlin office, MacNamara dreams of being transferred to London, and to do this he must curry favor with his Atlanta-based boss, Hazeltine (Howard St. John). Thus, MacNamara agrees to look after Hazeltine's dizzy, impulsive daughter, Scarlett (Pamela Tiffin), during her visit to Germany. Weeks pass, and on the eve of Hazeltine's visit to West Berlin, Scarlett announces that she's gotten married. Even worse, her husband is a hygienically challenged East Berlin Communist named Otto Piffl (Horst Buchholz). The crafty MacNamara arranges for Piffl to be arrested by the East Berlin police and to have the marriage annulled, only to discover that Scarlett is pregnant. In rapid-fire "one, two, three" fashion, MacNamara must arrange for Piffl to be released by the Communists and successfully pass off the scrungy, doggedly anti-capitalist Piffl as an acceptable husband for Scarlett. MacNamara must accomplish this in less than 12 hours, all the while trying to mollify his wife (Arlene Francis), who has learned of his affair with busty secretary Ingeborg (Lilo Pulver).

Seldom pausing for breath, Billy Wilder's film is a crackling, mile-a-minute farce, taking satiric scattershots at Coca-Cola, the Cold War (the film is set in the months just before the erection of the Berlin Wall), Russian red tape, Communist and capitalist hypocrisy, Southern bigotry, the German "war guilt," rock music, and even Cagney's own movie image. Not all the gags are in the best of taste, and most of the one-liners have dated rather badly, but Cagney's mesmerizing performance holds the whole affair together. Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond adapted their screenplay from an obscure play by Ferenc Molnár. Watch for Red Buttons in an unbilled cameo as a military

Fed Ex in "Castaway".

Jimmy Stewart, It's a good life.
His bank was a persecuted saint and was saved by all the "little people" at the end.

I fail. Someone already posted this and I even got the name wrong!

ETA Pt II
Men in Black

What was the last corporation to star in a major motion picture?





Guess I can't see how this would work out.

If you're going to have a bad guy, he's going to have to be rich and powerful.

There are only a handful of ways to become rich and powerful.





I'm trying to imagine a script like the OP proposes (with the corporation saving mankind or something) and I can't come up with much.

So, who at Wayne Enterprises knew Bruce was BatMan, much less helped him? Did Joe from IT, Chris from Shipping and Marcie from Accounting ever knowingly or unknowingly work with Bruce to stop the bad guys?
 

San Francisco Chronicle in the "Killing Fields"

Robocop.

OCP FTW!

I disagree about "It's a Wonderful Life"  The socialistic farm loan company was the good guy, but the business run bank was EVIL!