Before I started explaining more, it would be easier to start with the alignment explaination. If you know the alignment of D&D (Dungeons and Dragon) games like Baldur's Gate, Planescape Torment, Icewind Dale, you should know there's an alignment law which categorize person into different alignment.
Quoting one of the alignment from the wiki page:
Chaotic Neutral
Chaotic Neutral is called the "Anarchist" or "Free Spirit" alignment. A character of this alignment is an individualist who follows his or her own heart, and generally shirks rules and traditions. Although they promote the ideals of freedom, it is their own freedom that comes first. Good and Evil come second to their need to be free, and the only reliable thing about them is how totally unreliable they are. Chaotic Neutral characters are free-spirited and do not enjoy the unnecessary suffering of others, but if they join a team, it is because that team's goals coincide with their own. They invariably resent taking orders and can be very selfish in their pursuit of personal goals. A Chaotic Neutral character does not have to be an aimless wanderer; they may have a specific goal in mind, but their methods of achieving that goal are often disorganised, unorthodox, or entirely unpredictable.
An unusual subset of Chaotic Neutral is "strongly Chaotic Neutral", describing a character who behaves chaotically to the point of appearing insane. Characters of this type may regularly change their appearance and attitudes for the sake of change, and intentionally disrupt organizations for the sole reason of disrupting a lawful construct. Characters of this type include the Xaositects from the Planescape setting, and Hennet from the third edition Player's Handbook. In Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Chaotic Neutral was frequently assumed to refer to this subset.
Captain Jack Sparrow, Al Swearengen from the TV series Deadwood, and Snake Plissken from Escape from New York are Chaotic Neutral characters according to Complete Scoundrel.[7] Slaadi represent pure chaos.
As we know, and have always watched from the movie, the good guys are always living a normal life, a good hero always saves the day. The candidate for this alignment would be Spiderman, who is Neutral Good. Peter Parker goes to university, met Mary Jane, fall in love and later getting married? He wanted to protect the city because his uncle was killed by a robber, leaving him with the word "With great power, comes great responsibility.".
(His intention is to protect people, according to what most people perceive as the correct way.)
Or this one here
And then there is this Chaotic Neutral, which I quoted earlier that Captain Jack Sparrow is under this category. They does not care about good or evil. If they wished to achieve something, they will just try anything to achieve that, no matter the way. In the video, Jack Sparrow used the captor's ship cannon to launch himself back to his ship to escape, without caring whether the cannon will kill anybody.
(His intention here is surviving, instead of killing you)
But movie rarely talks much about a bad guy/villain, the bad guy that I'm talking about here is mostly because they had come to a conclusion that the rules of the world is not their responsibility. For example, Joker in The Dark Knight would be Chaotic Evil. He does not care for anything other than himself, by killing his mates at the starting scene where he planned and robbed the bank, and taking all the loots by himself.
(His intention here is all about the money, even if it means killing his mates)
I guess right now, I'm living on the Chaotic Neutral path. Which path are you?

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