Great Movie Villains

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I've been thinking about "Who are the best movie villains?"

My first choice was the mountain men in Deliverance. "We ain't got a boar, we got us a sow."

I also think Christopher Walken's character, Brad Whitewood, Sr. in "At Close Range" was another awesome bad guy.

There are some other movie villains I think are great:
Keyser Soze aka Verbil Kint (The Usual Suspects)
Drexel (Gary Oldman in True Romance)
Jame Gumb aka Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine in Silence of the Lambs - I rate him as a better villain than Hannibale Lecter!!!)
Norman Stansfield (Oldman, again, in "The Professional")
Mr. Blonde (Michael Madsen in Reservoir Dogs)
Hector the Toad (Scarface)
Dr. "Is it safe?" Szell (Laurence Olivier in "Marathon Man")

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Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon in "The Princess Bride")

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Darth Vader!

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Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) - "American Psycho" that dude was wierd...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

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Christopher Lee as Dracula is a classic...

or, how about Vincent Price as "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" ?

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Thulsa Doom (james earl jones, conan)
Satan (Al pacino, Devil's Advocate)
jack the ripper (david warner, time after time)
Bill (Keith Caradine)
Frank Booth (Denis Hopper, Blue Velvet)

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Samuel L Jackcon as hitman Jules in Pulp Fiction

Nick Cage and John Travolta in Face Off

Boss Paul in Cool Hand Luke

Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito in Goodfellas

Arnie as Mr Freeze I kid! I kid!

Edited to add: Pennywise from IT

Jack Nicholson in the Shining

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Chiwetel Ejiofor in Serenity. He was the operative that was chasing down the crew.

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The Thing - that piece of alien could morf into people and be really really mean. Splitting it's head off and becoming a spider thing.

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John Ryder (Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher)

Creepiest role ever

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Hector the Toad (Scarface)

He was the most villainous character in Scarface?

I might have picked Sosa (hangs Tony's associate while casually talking to him and saying " Ill only tell you once....Don't you ever try to fuck me", and then sends a hit squad after Tony for not following orders.

For that matter Tony himself (granted a tragic villain). When his boss (Mr. Lopez) is on his kness begging for his life and Tony says "I aint gonna kill you", and waits for the guy to start thanking him profusely before saying "Manolo...Shoot that peice of shit" that was fucking cold.

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I used to think that untill Revenge of the Sith when he cried out that pathetic melodramatic "Noooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!"

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Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Gunnar Hansen .... Leatherface/Bubba Sawyer, Jr.

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Dr. "Is it safe?" Szell (Laurence Olivier in "Marathon Man")

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He is the BEST!

For some reason I also really liked Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in "Die Hard" (I think it has to do with the "Kippy-Ky-A Mother Fucker" said in that refined English accent).

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Thulsa Doom (james earl jones, conan)

Good villains have to have lots of cool. James Earl Jones was BORN to play Thulsa Doom - what a great role!

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Chiwetel Ejiofor in Serenity. He was the operative that was chasing down the crew.

I second that!

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I think there's a difference between "villain" and "bad guy". Anybody can play a nut-job, but it takes somebody with an edge to do a villain right.

Gary Oldman is an excellent pick for villains - he's got that edge. He was outstanding as Sirius Black in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban". I was so sure he was going to be his usual nut-case bad-guy, but it turned out that his character wasn't a villain at all!!!

A new villain that I adored was Chiwetel Ejiofor in "Serenity". He wasn't a simple psycho-killer. He was sophisticated.

BTW Chiwetel Ejiofor recently played a drag queen in a picture called "Kinky Boots"...

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Ooh, ooh....I want to add one more.

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in "Misery."

CRAZY lady Wilkes

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Hector the Toad (Scarface)

He was the most villainous character in Scarface?

I might have picked Sosa (hangs Tony's associate while casually talking to him and saying " Ill only tell you once....Don't you ever try to fuck me", and then sends a hit squad after Tony for not following orders.

For that matter Tony himself (granted a tragic villain). When his boss (Mr. Lopez) is on his kness begging for his life and Tony says "I aint gonna kill you", and waits for the guy to start thanking him profusely before saying "Manolo...Shoot that peice of shit" that was fucking cold.

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I didn't choose Sosa for this reason - he never did any of the dirty work himself. He had Alberto (a pretty good villain) or his gang do it. Who hanged Omar out of the helicopter? Alberto. Who was gonna blow the car up? Alberto.

Meanwhile, you've got Hector the Toad, whose lines like, "Now the other leg" are just cold and ruthless. It's why I thought Hector the Toad was such a great villain.

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Ooh, ooh....I want to add one more.

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in "Misery."

CRAZY lady Wilkes

Beat me to it.

That is one scary bitch.
Sledgehammer to the ankles to help "keep him where he belongs"

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Brad Dourif does some good villains: Grima Wormtongue in LOTR's, Piter De Vries in Dune. His IMDB biography says, "Despite his attempts to avoid typecasting, his intensity destined him to play demented, deranged, or disturbed characters..."

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Brad Dourif does some good villains: Grima Wormtongue in LOTR's, Piter De Vries in Dune. His IMDB biography says, "Despite his attempts to avoid typecasting, his intensity destined him to play demented, deranged, or disturbed characters..."

Yay! Excellent pick! He would have made an outstanding Professor Snape in Harry Potter if JKR hadn't hand-picked Alan Rickman for that role!

Funny anectdote about Brad Dourif from LOTR (and you can see this in one of the bonus disks in the extended DVD version): he says that when he was in New Zealand, the locals were so convinced that he was one of them thet they were ragging on him about his "American" accent!

He was very cool as Pieter de Vries in Dune (1984 David Lynch version). That's one of the only roles that really stands out in my memory from that turkey.

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