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Best bad guy in cinema?



jimhigham

Je Suis Rhino
Apr 25, 2009
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Woking
Here's a Thursday morning filler. Nominate your best bad guy in cinema history. I'll start.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Class.
 


Frutos

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May 3, 2006
35,493
Northumberland
Alan Rickman in Robin Hood.

Pantomime villain perfection.
 


The Legend that IS Lawro

It's 'canard' Del
May 8, 2013
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For a Few Dollars More, quite sadistic : Robert_003.jpg
 
















Grombleton

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Dec 31, 2011
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Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in 'No Country For Old Men'.
 


Here's a Thursday morning filler. Nominate your best bad guy in cinema history. I'll start.

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

Class.

Also Professor Snape in the Harry Potter Movies. But is he really a bad guy in these?
 














DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012
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I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.
 


Trufflehound

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Aug 5, 2003
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The democratic and free EU
Gary Oldman in Léon.

"I like these calm little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven."

That any pretty much any Christopher Walken baddie...
 


shaolinpunk

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Nov 28, 2005
7,187
Brighton
I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.

If it also had Matt Damon and Leonardo Di Caprio, then yes it was The Departed. A very good Hollywood remake of the equally excellent Infernal Affairs
 


DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012
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I would have gone for Alan Rickman for both the roles mentioned.

And also for Jack Nicholson, but as the Joker in Batman, and also for another recent(ish) gangster film, the name of which escapes me at the moment (Was it "the departed?). In both, he seems to have a steely menace behind a jokey or personable exterior which makes it all the more nasty.

Having just checked, yes, it was the Departed, which won 4 Oscars, apparently.

Also a shout for Seven (Se7en) and the chilling performance by Kevin Spacey
 









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