June 20, 2015
Notes on Villains:
What is a villain? Is he a hero who lost his way? Or a person of evil intent? Do you like your villains outrageously funny like Bobby Peru from “Wild at Heart”? Or poignant like Perry from “In Cold Blood”? Or charming like the grinning Irishman Danny from “Night Must Fall”? The one thing they all have in common is that we can’t keep our eyes off of them. Brad
In no particular order..
1. Robert Mitchum Harry Powell Night of the Hunter (’55) Charles Laughton
2. Joe Pesci Tommy DeVito Goodfellas (’91) Martin Scorsese
3. Christopher Walken Brad Whitewood, Sr. At Close Range (’86) James Foley
4. Charles Laughton Doctor Moreau Island of Lost Souls(’32) Erle C. Kenton
5. Dennis Hopper Frank Booth Blue Velvet (’86) David Lynch
6. Scott Wilson Dick In Cold Blood (’67) Richard Brooks
7. Anthony Perkins Norman Bates Psycho (’60) Alfred Hitchcock
8. Willem Dafoe Bobby Peru Wild at Heart (’90) David Lynch
9. Robert Blake Perry In Cold Blood (’67) Richard Brooks
10. Robert Montgomery Danny Night Must Fall (’37) Richard Thorpe
11. Ray Liota Ray Sinclair Something Wild (’86) Jonathan Demme
12. Ted Levine Buffalo Bill The Silence of the Lambs (’91) Jonathan Demme
13. James Caan Roy Sweeney Flesh and Bone (’93) Steve Kloves
14. Laurence Olivier Szell Marathon Man (’76) John Schlesinger
15. Anthony Hopkins Hannibal Lecter The Silence of the Lambs (’91) Jonathan Demme
16. Richard Widmark Tommy Udo Kiss of Death (’47) Henry Hathaway
17. Boris Karloff Hjalmar Poelzig The Black Cat (’34) Edgar G. Ulmer
18. Bela Lugosi Dr. Mirakle Murders in the Rue Morgue (’32) Robert Florey
19. Peter Lorre Doctor Gogol Mad Love (’35) Karl Freund
20 Javier Bardem Anton Chigurh No Country for Old Men (2007) Coen Brothers
Love the Christopher Walken addition
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Can’t forget Jack! Jack Nicholson —-Jack Torrence – The Shining (1980)
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