Luke Jackson played by Paul Newman

'This hear is a failure to communicate', the line from the prison guard who intends to break 'Cool Hand' Luke Jackson.

The anti-hero proves doubters wrong by escaping from jail time and time again. Yet anti-hero in the sense that he has no future and cannot fashion a future for himself. The ironic smile when arrested for chopping heads of parking meters. He is willful and tough, the complete anti-authoritarian figure and a christ-like figure amongst inmates. Luke however is ultimately a tragic character, a man who has hit rock bottom 'with nothin better to do', his mother on her deathbed, and Luke in the tin.