Favourite villains

[Parra]

Yosser Hughes

 

[thorson1987]

This guy:

That opening scene of Inglorious Basterds is an absolute brilliant piece of filmmaking.
The way he goes from a nice guy sitting down for a cosy chat, to an ice-cold murder machine is amazing.

hahaha as I was scrolling I thought this was Ed Harris in Enemy At The Gates until I did I double take.

 

[Captain Apollo]

Darth Vader
The Sheriff of Nottingham from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves ("Cut his heart out with a spoon" - oh good old Alan Rickman)
Hans Gruber
Francisco Scaramanga
Walter Donovan (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade).

 

[God-King Dean]

Edward Longshanks

 

[Chook]

Heath Ledger as the Joker.
Keyser Soze.
Hector Barbossa.

Chook.

 

[snoozer]

al swearengen(?) from deadwood.

 

[vvvrulz]

Took a while to see Ledger's Joker turn up.

Anyone seen the Korean movie "I Saw the Devil"
Mik Sin Choi - wow what a scumbag

 

[Parra]

Paulie Walnuts

Omar

 

[Captain Apollo]

Doctor Evil

 

[Parra]

Bobby Peru

 

[T.S Quint]

Paulie Walnuts

Omar

I never really saw Omar as a villain.
Sure he didn't bad things, but he usually just screwed over the bad guys.

 

[Parra]

I saw Omar as a great villain.

How about Quint

 

[T.S Quint]

I love Quint as a character, but once again I don't really see him as a villain.
He was trying to do the right thing and catch the shark, but his obsession just took over him and he went crazy.

 

[Parra]

Quint is Ahab. Definitely a villain, or at least an anti-hero. Chief Brody is the white hat. Quint is there to represent the dark side.

 

[Pete Cash]

Omar is an anti hero (or possibly more accurate an anti villian)

Surely the villian of the wire is the realities of life in Baltimore

 

[Parra]

I'm not seeing anything heroic in committing murder to steal drugs and money. Regardless of the motivation or circumstance. I'd say Quint & Omar are such endearing villains we can't see them as such.

 

[DiegoNT]

On the wire, i think Marlo was underrated as a villian

 

[Parra]

Never warmed to him or his hitman/hitwoman team myself. He had his moments - those clock pictures were genius

 

[Eelementary]

Hannibal Lecter

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[hineyrulz]

I'm shocked no one has mentioned Max Cady from Cape Fear, Robert Mitchum was pretty badass in the original but De Niro took it to a whole new level in the newer version.