Who is your favourite movie villain?

[pockets]

Leary: The irony is so thick you could choke on it.
Horrigan: There's no fuckin' irony, Mitch.
Leary: Think, Frank. Think. The same government that trained me to kill trained you to protect. Yet now you want to kill me while up on that roof I protected you. They're gonna write books about us, Frank.

Mitch Leary: [speaking to Horrigan on the phone] Do you know how easily I could kill you, Frank? Do you know how many times I watched you go in and out of that apartment? You are still alive because I have allowed you to live so you show me some GODDAMN RESPECT!
[slams phone down]

[DemonicGeek]

Brad Whitewood Sr. (Christopher Walken) - At Close Range (1986)

Want some corn flakes?

And when a coyote bitch gets in heat, first thing she does is take care of them coyote males. Then she heads toward town. Yeah. And all the neighborhood dogs, they smell her and go crazy. Follow her. She lures'em out into the desert, and once she gets a dog out there alone, the other coyotes come along and circle 'round.
And they kill that dog and eat it.
Tommy...if you went up to that grand jury, what would you say?

[dzafte]

Well, here is some of mine personal favorites.....some of them....

F. Murray Abraham as Salieri in ''AMADEUS''



Ian McKellen as Kurt Dussander in ''APT PUPIL''



Harvey Keitel as nameless Bad Lieutenant in ''BAD LIEUTENANT''



Andy Robinson as Scorpio Killer in ''DIRTY HARRY''



Rie Ino'o as Sadako Yamamura in ''RINGU''



Michael Madsen as Mr Blonde in ''RESERVOIR DOGS''



Maurice Dean Wint as Quentin in ''CUBE''



Dieter Laser as Dr. Joseph Heiter in ''HUMAN CENTIPEDE''



Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky in ''TENANT'' (more like anti-hero)



Jessica Walter as Evelyn in ''PLAY MISTY FOR ME''



Mariclare Costello as Emily in ''LET'S SCARE JESSICA TO DEATH''




Faces of fright and evil to me....

[dzafte]

Part II .... still very frighting....

Jan Vlasák as Dutch businessman in ''HOSTEL''



Robert Patrick as T-1000 in ''TERMINATOR 2''



Dan O'Herlihy as Conal Cochran in ''HALLOWEEN 3''



Keith Moon as uncle Ernie in ''TOMMY''



Gunnar Hansen as Leatherface in ''TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE''



Arnold Schwarzenegger as Terminator in ''TERMINATOR''



Cary Loftin as faceless truck driver in ''DUEL''



Paul Nicholas as cousin Kevin in ''TOMMY''



T. Ryder Smith as Trickster in ''BRAINSCAN''



Joseph Pilato as captain Rhodes in ''DAY OF THE DEAD''



John Anderson as col. Iverson in ''SOLDIER BLUE''




Lucifer's friends....

[Guru Brahmin]

My personal top 10:



#8Dennis Hopper(Frank) - Blue Velvet

"Suave! Goddamn you're one suave fucker!" Hopper chews the scenery like a condemned man's last supper. A part that totally reminded all of what a gem of an actor he truly was. This is THE David Lynch movie to see.

[DemonicGeek]

Traffic Cop Death Squad - Magnum Force (1973)

We are the first generation that's learned to fight. We're simply ridding society of killers that would be caught and sentenced anyway if our courts worked properly. We began with the criminals that the people know so that our actions would be understood. lt's not just a question of whether or not to use violence. There simply is no other way, lnspector. You of all people should understand that.

[Guru Brahmin]

Originally Posted by DemonicGeek

Traffic Cop Death Squad - Magnum Force (1973)

Actually, they seemed to be more or less heroes in that film. Even Harry didn't seem to be too enthused about tracking them down, since they were doing such a good job of getting rid of the scummers. If real cops went after those types, instead of, well, movie downloaders and pot heads, they might have an overall better public image.

[DemonicGeek]

Originally Posted by Urge0k

Actually, they seemed to be more or less heroes in that film. Even Harry didn't seem to be too enthused about tracking them down, since they were doing such a good job of getting rid of the scummers. If real cops went after those types, instead of, well, movie downloaders and pot heads, they might have an overall better public image.

Well, yeah....while conceptually they were the villains because a. Harry had to fight them and b. they killed an innocent person to cover up their program...what they were doing otherwise wasn't really a bad thing, just outside of a law system that often times failed.

In the film Harry isn't hugely interested in finding out who the vigilantes are until they kill an innocent person. And of course Harry and his partner get in their sights for the same reason, to keep the program secret.
Magnum Force basically pitted Harry against the natural course of what his character was like in Dirty Harry. If it hadn't been the killing of innocents angle, Harry likely could have joined up with the death squad, or at least turned a blind eye to it.

The eternal struggle between the concept of a law and order and rights and delicacies of law vs. knocking off the people that people know are guilty.
An aspect that wasn't explored by the film is a vulnerability of the cut to the chase way is simply getting the wrong person with not a lot of checks in place to be sure. The Israeli Wrath of God program against anyone related to the Munich massacre ended because at one point they killed the wrong person.

By comparison...I can't say if Los Pepes in the Escobar days ever got any wrong people.

[Guru Brahmin]

Well said. I remember the movie as the beginning of a kinder, gentler Harry(and more human) and in a way, it affected most of Eastwood's films thereafter. He was, by then, tiring of his fascist enforcer persona amid the sea of liberals.

[DemonicGeek]

Originally Posted by Urge0k

Well said. I remember the movie as the beginning of a kinder, gentler Harry(and more human) and in a way, it affected most of Eastwood's films thereafter. He was, by then, tiring of his fascist enforcer persona amid the sea of liberals.

True...the rest of series has Harry working within the law and not really going out of it like he did in Dirty Harry. The ending of Sudden Impact is the closest he gets back to the original way the character was.

Paul Kersey, on the other hand...his evolution worked the opposite way...from baiting and killing muggers to wiping out gangs and drug cartels by himself mostly.