Quote from: Malcolm CraigGene Hackman as Little Bill Daggett in 'Unforgiven' (although that's one of those grey area films where it's hard to say who really is the villain)

Actually, it's more a question of trying to suss which characters aren't villains.  The whores get my vote.

Quote from: jrientsActually, it's more a question of trying to suss which characters aren't villains.  The whores get my vote.

Sgt. Barnes from Platoon, comes to mind.

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David R

Quote from: J ArcaneJean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg.

Ding-Ding-Ding we have a winner. Gary Oldman rules as a bad guy!:win:

Quote from: jrientsThe whores get my vote.

When don't they, ever?

Quote from: RoninDing-Ding-Ding we have a winner. Gary Oldman rules as a bad guy!:win:

Gary Oldam is the best!! No one can play a mentally disturbed character better than him.

I sort of disliked the list. Too many blah's for me. I didn't recognize half of them, and a few I knew only by reputation struck me less as villian and more as foil for the protagonist in the face of some greater, faceless evil... or something.

I DID however, love the seven rules of villany link.

The list needs a few additions:

- Christopher Walken as the Angel Gabriel. (If I have to say the name of the movie, then you're obviously unfamiliar with the prophesies. Shame on you!)

- The George C. Scott character in The Hustler. Gotta love a guy who'll have your thumbs broken, cause your girlfriend to commit suicide, and then graciously offer to take a smaller share of your winnings.

- Yule Brinner (Sp?) from that old movie West World or something like that. That's the original Terminator.

- I forget the name of the actor who played him, but Aaron from Titus (Andronicus). I mean, asked to repent of his sins before dying, he responds with: "If ever a good deed have I done, I do repent of it now." ...gotta love that.

- Whoever it was that played Krank in City of Lost children.

- The two villains from Funny Games, and by implication, you yourself, if you've watched it.

- Sting's character from Brimstone and Treacle. Pure evil.

- Nicole Kidman, at the very end of Dogville. It's a damned slow-ass movie, but it contains one of the coldest lines I've ever heard in a movie.

- Robert Carlyle from Ravenous. "...Run!"

- Judas from the original Jesus Christ Superstar. Way more interesting than the hero of that flick.

 - and the assassin from Serenity deserves a mention. Such a sensitive guy. He feels for you, really he does. Course that doesn't stop him from killing you, but you look in his eyes as you take that last breath, and you just know he's almost sorry to have to do it.

- Don Logan from Sexy Beast.

Quote from: BrimshackSting's character from Brimstone and Treacle. Pure evil.

"Which...one...?  Which one will it be...?"

That's a neat, tidy little movie (and a great soundtrack!).  The final scene, though, puts Martin's (played by Sting) evil into perspective.

Good choice.  I immediately tried to think of a way to fit Martin, or a character like him, into a RPG scenario, but the sort of institutional paranoia that pervades most gamers would effectively prevent them from acceptng him into their fold as an NPC.  Now, as a player character, though, with a long-term view in mind... :hehe:

!i!

Lee Van Cleef in The Good The Bad and The Ugly or For a Few Dollars More, where strictly speaking he isnt a villain, but still a mean hard b'stard.
Donald Pleasance usually played a good villain, although the only role I can picture him in at the moment is as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.