There's also Rutger Hauer's character John Ryder in 'The Hitcher' from 1986, a motif which for all the ludicrous reasons became a token of scrutiny as to post-modernist interpretations of homophobia during the 80s AIDS-scare. An omen of what was unfortunately to come in so-called "cultural sciences" 25+ years later, I gather.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) in Unforgiven is worth a mention here.
Alex in A Clockwork Orange
Hannibal Lecter in Hannibal
Otis B. Driftwood from House Of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
Sadism.
Darling sweet Patty McCormack in, The Bad Seed.
The older I get, the better I was.
'KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN"!!
The older I get, the better I was.
The Bond movie, Spectre, was just on TV now.
I don't know if the arch villain Blofeld was portrayed as being mad in the orig. Fleming book, but in this movie he is played STRAIGHT LEVEL-HEADED/UNMELODRAMATIC by actor, Christoph Waltz.
This got me thinking:
should not a SANE-evil character be more evil than a mad one? Simply because the mad one doesn't really know what evil he is capable of.
That would make Hannibal or, say, Robert Mitchum in Night of The Hunter or Vincent Price (in Witchfinder General, Pit & The Pendulum) less evil than ,say, Neeson as Ra (Batman Returns.)
Im just reading Origion by Dan Brown. The character , Admiral Aliva, believes he has a duty to protect the ideals of Catholicism. He is certainly not portrayed as being mad or a fanatic. Does this make him less evil?
Gary Poulter in Joe (2013)
A homeless man cast as an alcoholic father to Tye Sheridan who died shortly after filming.
An authentic chilling performance that still gives me nightmares.
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Gregory Peck (in a somewhat understated but quite effective role) as Dr. Josef Mengele in "The Boys From Brazil".
Honorable mention to the rascally Dobermans.
Another one nobody's brought up: Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life. He makes Mitch McConnell look like a warm, giving human being.
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Robert Prosky's mob boss in Thief. Telling James Caan how it's going to be.
^ While Peck was always an excellent performance and the source material of 'Boys from Brazil' outstanding (kudos Jed/KJL2000, son of the great Ira Levin!), I really think this is one of those cases where a remake would actually do some sense. Preferably a high-budget miniseries of some sort.
Peck, at the top of his admittedly fabulous career-game, deliberately sought the role in order to reboot the sticky image of him as an eternal "good man" in the movies, while King Laurence Olivier actively needed to get the Szell/Weisse Engel/"Is It Safe?" association out of his Hollywood trajectory. Consequently the film passes as such, but today it comes across as somewhat dated and charicatured in spirit, I think. The scene with Olivier meeting the evolutionary biologist (played by Bruno Ganz) in Zürich is almost priceless in atmosphere, but James Mason's capacities are thrown away other than as direct dynamic to the sometimes intrinsically amusing tantrums of Peck's ecstatic Mengele.
Yet speaking of films based on Ira Levin's work, Cassavetes' channelling of the core-treason of Guy Woodhouse in 'Rosemary's Baby' surely deserves a significant mention. Also one of the most grotesquely funny and frustrating (!) horrors of all time. The film itself is probably among the most perfectionist deliveries of detailed-oriented narrative I ever saw. You'll discover anew on each viewing of this.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Michael Rooker as the title character in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
^ Rooker is one of those guys, along with the marvellous Michael Wincott, for instance - who instantly invokes a sense of disturbance and/or at times even impending dread in a viewer.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Baron Vladimir Harkonnen--from the Lynch film, I haven't seen the new one yet.
Well, if you want to bring dogs into the equation then the Bumpus' dogs in A Christmas Story are due their acknowledgement. Not sure if they are evil. Mischievious?
Cujo gets a good nod and a wink to a blind bat.
Chris Cooper in The Muppets?
I'm probably not getting this right.
Ralph Macchio in The Karate Kid? According to How I Met Your Mother he's the villain and I hate to correct correctness.
And why is it villain instead of villian? That's like some foreign language, vil-LAIN!
I hope at some point this stream of consciousness was viewed as parody or satire (what's the dif?). If you took me seriously, well, that's on you.
So thought I'd throw some crap in here to make this post worthwhile.
Ok, first off.....WTF is 4: VILLEIN?Definition of villain
1: a character in a story or play who opposes the hero
2: a deliberate scoundrel or criminal
3: one blamed for a particular evil or difficulty
automation as the villain in job … displacement
— M. H. Goldberg
4: VILLEIN
5: an uncouth person : BOOR
Synonyms
Yeah, found this at Merriam Webster, don't know how trustworthy they are.
5: an uncouth person : BOOR
I'm uncouth and boorish. But I'm not a villain.
2: a deliberate scoundrel or criminal
Define scoundrel.
3: one blamed for a particular evil
Yeah, been there, done that but am I a villain?
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
Although he was not the main villian-----Dwight Frye as Renfield in Dracula===" Flies? Who wants flies when I've got nice juicy spiders"
Well, regardless of the 'loony' definitions for villain offered above, I submit Michael Ironside as Darryl Revok in the David Cronenberg classic "Scanners". I mean, when you can literally say that a villain was so egregiously vile that his portrayal made your head explode, you have nailed it right on the head. (Also, check out the actual relationship with this movie's plot about the drug ephemerol, which mirrors the real-life thalidomide scandal, in which the popular West German drug thalidomide caused severe birth defects in pregnant women prescribed the drug for morning sickness in Western Europe and Canada.) That's right, the counterculture is rising up in the form of scanners.
Scanners_head_explode.jpg
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