Who is your favourite movie villain?

[MadDuke]

Originally Posted by DemonicGeek

O'Brien - Nineteen Eighty Four

"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."




Big Brother - Nineteen Eighty Four

"You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him."

"Does Big Brother exist?"
"Of course he exists."
"Does he exist like you or me?"
"You do not exist."

Despite the shit films he did and the general whorey way he behaved in the late 70s, it's this role (and his narrator role in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds musical) that saved Richard Burton's legacy.

[MadDuke]

Originally Posted by DemonicGeek

Outside of some typical faves...

Kenneth Baxter from The Offence

"It's there in everyone, you must know that better than anyone, surely you know don'tcha? Eh? Eh, of course you think just everyone else, not you. I suppose being a policeman for 20 years thinking you're different must become a habit like "Thank God I'm not those other men." It's difficult...it's dangerous, cause you're just the same, you see, and some of you is a hell of a lot worse."



For a villain being born, Detective Sergeant Johnson from the same film:

"Is it the same for you, is your mind full of things, all the time...thoughts, pictures, shadows, darkness, white...smooth white legs....thighs...breasts...blood...pain...?"

The Offence is one of Sean Connery's best films. The way that you don't ever find out whether Ian Bannen's character is a bad guy or not is part of the suspense of the film.

I'd also like to add Trevor Howard as Superintendent Cartwright as a villain as in his brief (about ten minutes) role he shows absolutely no sympathy for Sergeant Johnson's predicament.

[Guru Brahmin]

International HOF: Amrish Puri(June 22, 1932 - January 12, 2005) was an iconic theater and film actor from India, who was a key player in the Indian theater movement that picked up steam in the 1960s. He worked with notable playwrights of the time, such as Satyadev Dubey and Girish Karnad. However, he is primarily remembered for essaying some iconic negative roles in Hindi cinema. His is most remembered for his role as Mogambo in the Hindi film Mr India (1987). Also, as Mola Ram in the Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), he crossed over to international cinema as well. - Wiki

[TopKatz]

Casey Affleck as Lou Ford a complete nutter.

[svela4]

Originally Posted by DemonicGeek

O'Brien - Nineteen Eighty Four
"If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."

very good one

my fave scene

" You are a slow learner, Winston ".

" How can I help it ? How can I help seeing what is in front of my eyes ? Two and two are four. "

" Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane. "

[DemonicGeek]

Originally Posted by MadDuke

Despite the shit films he did and the general whorey way he behaved in the late 70s, it's this role (and his narrator role in Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds musical) that saved Richard Burton's legacy.

True...he was in bad shape when he filmed 1984 too. Had to wear a neck brace during rehearsals and had problems remembering his lines, sometimes needing 40 takes.

Despite his hits and misses in his career (and infamous alcoholism through the years)...he had a great voice, the sort where he could read off the ingredients of toothpaste and make it sound interesting.

[DemonicGeek]

Originally Posted by MadDuke

The Offence is one of Sean Connery's best films. The way that you don't ever find out whether Ian Bannen's character is a bad guy or not is part of the suspense of the film.

I'd also like to add Trevor Howard as Superintendent Cartwright as a villain as in his brief (about ten minutes) role he shows absolutely no sympathy for Sergeant Johnson's predicament.

Yeah, the film never explicitly says Baxter was the guy the police were looking for.

I'm not sure I'd say Cartwright was a villain though...no more than Johnson's wife was. His wife couldn't help him through inability really...Cartwright could see what Johnson was...he just didn't empathize but rather distanced himself. He couldn't understand or accept Johnson being unable to find a way to lock the darkness of the job away, and blasted him for shouting about his "share of blood on the walls and guts on the floor". It's mainly like a English stiff upper lip type thing I suppose, from the authority figure.

[DemonicGeek]

Lady Sylvia Marsh (Amanda Donohoe) - The Lair of the White Worm

"It's no use if you're even attempting to scream, dear boy. You see your vocal cords are paralyzed, in fact your entire nervous system is paralyzed. You're a vegetable...metaphorically speaking of course. The god is a not a vegetarian. Now if you're sitting comfortably, I shall tell you why you must not be afraid to die. To die so the god may live is a privilege, Kevin. And if you know anything about history you will know that human sacrifice is as old as Dionin himself. Whose every death is a rebirth into a god ever MIGHTIER!"
*doorbell rings*
"Shit."

[Guru Brahmin]

International HOF: Marc Lawrence(February 17, 1910 – November 27, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

Lawrence was born as Max Goldsmith in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. He married novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss, with whom he had two children; she died on December 12, 1995. Lawrence died of heart failure on November 27, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California. His son, Michael Lawrence, is a writer and artist based on the Greek island of Hydra, whose book, My Voyage In Art, details his meetings with various of his father's actor friends; while at UCLA he befriended the singer-songwriter James Douglas "Jim" Morrison. His daughter, actress Toni Lawrence, was once married to actor Billy Bob Thornton and starred in his film "Daddy's Girl".

In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence appeared in films beginning in 1931, Garfield followed starting his film acting in 1938. Lawrence's pock-marked complexion and brooding appearance made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He was blacklisted and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films. Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man With the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979).

One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang". Notably, he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".

In 1991, Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled "Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster". Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane(published in 2002).

His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action, appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president. - Wiki

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