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« on: April 29, 2007, 04:20:55 PM »
TIME magazine has made a list of 25 movie villains. Now, these lists pop up on an almost daily basis, but this one caught my attention because most characters in it belong to old B&W films.

If you are in need of inspiration, you can do worse than looking at the list, sorted by year:

Oh, and they also have Seven Rules for Movie Villainy.


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« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2007, 05:30:18 PM »
This list is useless without Rickman.
 

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« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2007, 06:01:17 PM »
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This list is useless without Gunnery Sergeant Hartman.

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« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2007, 06:05:04 PM »
Say it ain't so! If you say that Gunny Hartman is a villain, the communists/terrorists/Texans already have won!
 

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« Reply #4 on: April 29, 2007, 06:14:33 PM »
Blame Stanley, not me.
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« Reply #5 on: April 29, 2007, 09:59:37 PM »
Hartman wasn't a "villain" - he was doing his job.

 There is NO villian in those scenes - its a fucked-up situation all around....plus the Director and Writer have slanted it from the start.

 Oh and R.Lee Ermey and Stanley Kubrick became friends during that movie and remained buddies all the way till Kubrick died. Read an interview somewhere that included Ermey talking about that.

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« Reply #6 on: April 29, 2007, 10:31:12 PM »
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This list is useless without Rickman.
Which Rickman are we talking about here?  Alan?  He did make a fine, fine Hans Gruber in "Die Hard", and not a bad Sheriff of Nottingham in an otherwise silly "Robin Hood".

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« Reply #7 on: April 29, 2007, 10:40:46 PM »
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Which Rickman are we talking about here?  Alan?  He did make a fine, fine Hans Gruber in "Die Hard", and not a bad Sheriff of Nottingham in an otherwise silly "Robin Hood".

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 ..however he has also played a mixed-up loving father and husband in the movie "Love Actually" and a frustrated Shakespearean actor stuck in a cliche role in "GalaxyQuest" .

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« Reply #8 on: April 30, 2007, 12:12:07 AM »
And one my favorite Rickman roles is as a wheezing, sneezing, risen-from-the-dead cellist in "Truly, Madly, Deeply".  Hey, at least he has range and hasn't been typecast as a villain.

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« Reply #9 on: April 30, 2007, 03:28:12 AM »
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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2007, 04:50:47 AM »
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Which Rickman are we talking about here?  Alan?  He did make a fine, fine Hans Gruber in "Die Hard", and not a bad Sheriff of Nottingham in an otherwise silly "Robin Hood".


Well, both? I would at least consider the Sheriff of Nottingham role as quite iconic for bad guys. If Michelle Pfeiffer and Vhing Rhames made the list, this scene-stealing performance should be in there, too. Come on, spoon? Christmas?

Also, cancel McDarmid and put in Prowse/Jones. While we're at it, Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates? Al Pacino as Michael Corleone? Trevor Howard as Captain Bligh? Robert Mitchum as Harry Powell? Bela fuckin' Lugosi as you-know-what? Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde? Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger? Clancy Brown as the Kurgan? Max von Sydow as Ming the Merciless? Terrance Stamp as YOU KNOW WHO, SO JUST KNEEL BEFORE HIM?
 

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« Reply #11 on: April 30, 2007, 05:18:52 AM »
I'd throw in some classic Western villains: Jack Palance as Jack Wilson in 'Shane' ("Pick up the gun"), Gene 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) and so forth.

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« Reply #12 on: April 30, 2007, 05:37:42 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: April 30, 2007, 10:15:12 AM »
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And one my favorite Rickman roles is as a wheezing, sneezing, risen-from-the-dead cellist in "Truly, Madly, Deeply".  Hey, at least he has range and hasn't been typecast as a villain.


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« Reply #14 on: April 30, 2007, 12:38:39 PM »
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That movie rocks.
Doesn't it, though?

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