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The most ruthless bad guys I can think of are the Joker from The Dark Knight, the Butcher from Gangs of New York and Max Cady from Cape Fear.Scarface is a great movie but Tony Montana is a PUSSY for having a thing for his sister and all. Alejandro Sosa is ruthless but for the most his character is not developed enough to qualify as a top ruthless bad guy.
Any suggestions on who else should be on this list?
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Wasn't he the ultimate anti-hero?I liked Masterson's (Dafoe) derangement more than that of the zealot Secret Service agents', Chance's in particular.
I suppose this is what makes a truly excellent villain - some reason for acceptance or to "pity the fool"?
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...nor any capacity to feel empathy for another human being.
Uh...Tony Montana did not have a "thing" for his sister. He couldn't see her as an adult and face her lost innocence (which is not an unheard of issue in misogynist cultures) and flew into a rage when he found out his best friend was sleeping with her in secret. Even in this country there are instances of "honor killings" in which a father or brother murders a young woman for her "dishonor"--often among muslim immigrants not latinos.But it's very interesting that you would interpret that as "having a thing for his sister". Wow.
As for ruthless bad guys, add Ralph Fiennes in Schindler's List.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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One of Pat Hingle's absolute best performances. One. Scary. Ruthless. Badguy.
I find a lot of the bad guys mentioned so far a bit cartoonish - I think the really scary bad guys (with a couple notable exceptions) aren't the ones that drool and shout but the ones that are cold, controlled and reptilian - merely ruthless isn't very interesting; Ian McShane as mobster Teddy Bass is WAY scarier to me than Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.
Here's some others:
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)- No Country For Old Men
Mortwell (Michael Caine) - Mona Lisa
Harry (Ralph Fiennes) - In Bruges
Janine Cody (Jackie Weaver) and Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) - Animal Kingdom
For sheer over the top, drooling badness you can't top Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet or Woody Harrelson as Mickey in Natural Born Killers.
... from "Mona Lisa". That performance was the first time I saw something absolutely unexpected in Michael Caine - chilling, rational and cold. No drool, just tempered steel and a predator's eyes.Amazing.
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Simply a profoundly bad man - who knew it, rationalized it and was probably proud of it. No redeeming qualities.
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Ruthless, completely self-centered, no remorse - because anything he wants is justified. Very well written and a memorable performance by John Houston.
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Bernard, the chauffer
the most evil character possible to imagine. I won't go into his sins: see this film if you have not. It will terrify you w/out resorting to ultra-violence.
... Tarantino films like "Reservoir Dogs".
The "family" eating scenes are a treasure of nuances.
Your moniker is not going to last, Don. Please feel free to choose something more appropriate or move on. We would have contacted you privately, but your new account is not set up to accept unsolicited Email.
Fax mentis incendium gloria cultum, et cetera, et cetera...
Memo bis punitor delicatum! It's all there, black and white,
clear as crystal! Blah, blah, and so on and so forth ...
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"Don't look at me!"
...even freaked out Roger Ebert.
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N/T
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
ultimate anti-hero + a tie with the Nazi Malcolm McDowell portrays in "The Passage", Donald Sutherlands Black-shirt fascist in "1900" already mentioned
GW
The way he terrorized those kids after an empty promise of riches?
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
You guys have no sense of humor.
We always will have Agent Smith, Kathy Bates in "Misery", Jack Nicholson in "The Shining", The Terminators, and the obvious Gru of "Despicable Me."
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
Eli, the "girl" vamp of "Let the Right One In."
We'll have to agree to disagree about global warming until the next global cooling scare comes along
Ruthless, crooked, unbalanced, psycho. Oldman's part had it all. I hated him.
Eric Bana's Chopper Reid was pretty extreme, but there was humour mixed in there to make Chopper a likeable character.
Cheers,
John K
Javier Bardem-No COuntry..
BTW, nice to see a poster whose system, arguably, is < mine.
Gotta love those Logitec speakers!
"I'd like to own a squadron of tanks"
Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) - White Heat
Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) - Goldfinger
Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) - Demolition Man
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Michael Madsen stood out amongst some bad guys in Reservoir Dogs.
Michael Douglas in Wall Street.
John Malkovich in Line of Fire and Con Air...
There's that thin line between bad, mentally scrambled and morally bereft, such as
the psycho in Dirty Harry or Robert Mitchum in Night of The Hunter.
There's Hannibal Lector, as ruthless a character as any, just in a more refined way.
Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.
There's "bad" like Machete (Danny Trejo), who maybe was an OK guy at his core when he was, what? five?
Lots of ruthless bad ass guys on the big screen, could be a long list.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
You did, didn't you?
...like a 'B' movie Saturday matinees never quite were.
Hobo with a Shotgun is next.
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" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
...I've had the Black Swan DVD from Netflix sitting here for about 2 weeks now, but just can't seem to get around to watching it.
Terrible movie.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
A fairly muddled psychological thriller/portrait of the struggling artist as a young woman.
Full of stereotypical situations and characters without even any decent dancing scenes going on.
Who shoots ballet dancer's from the waist up or the waist down?
Our torment trumped Portman's.
Well paced is about the best I can say for it.
" Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination." -Michael McClure
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Rutger Hauer's Roy Batty replicant character in Blade Runner.Lee Marvin's Liberty Valance portrayal.
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