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Best bad guys

Posted: 7/17/15 at 8:41am

I was making a list of my favorite movies yesterday and realized they're almost all based on true stories. In some of these the bad guys were played brilliantly, Ralph Fiennes in "Schindlers List" was amazing, and it's hard to think of a bigger ****than Alan Alda as Dr. Robert Gallo in "And The Band Played On." Who are some of your favorite despicable characters?

Stephanatic

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Posted: 7/17/15 at 9:20am

Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate

"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg." -- Thomas Jefferson

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Posted: 7/17/15 at 11:55am

Iago, from Othello. I've never hated a fictional character so much!

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Posted: 7/17/15 at 12:18pm

Robert Mitchum CAPE FEAR and THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Barbara Hershey PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Laura Linney THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Helena Bonham Carter THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey HOUSE OF CARDS
Carice van Houten GAME OF THRONES
Margaret Hamilton THE WIZARD OF OZ
Lionel Barrymore IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Louise Fletcher ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
John Huston CHINATOWN
Laurence Olivier MARATHON MAN
Gregory Peck THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Claude Raines NOTORIOUS
Christoph Waltz INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Leonardo di Caprio DJANGO UNCHAINED
Imelda Staunton HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS
Kathy Bates MISERY
Sergi Lopez PAN'S LABYRINTH
Gary Oldman THE CONTENDER
Ruth Gordon, Sydney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy et al ROSEMARY'S BABY
Glenn Close DANGEROUS LIAISONS and FATAL ATTRACTION
Matthew McConaughey KILLER JOE
Judith Anderson REBECCA
Gene Tierney THE RAZOR'S EDGE and LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
Dennis Hopper BLUE VELVET and SPEED
Angela Lansbury THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
Charles Laughton LES MISERABLES
Basil Rathbone THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Meryl Streep THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Denzel Washington TRAINING DAY
Sharon Stone BASIC INSTINCT (or is she?)
Toshiro Mifune RASHOMON
Klaus Kinski AGUIRRE and as himself in MY BEST FIEND!
Kenneth McMillan DUNE
Malcolm McDowell A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Rutger Hauer BLADE RUNNER
Anne Baxter and George Sanders ALL ABOUT EVE
Linda Fiorentino THE LAST SEDUCTION
James Mason THE VERDICT and NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Milo O'Shea THE VERDICT
Jacki Weaver THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Shelley Winters A PATCH OF BLUE
Patty McCormick THE BAD SEED
Heath Ledger THE DARK KNIGHT
Al Pacino THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
Orson Welles TOUCH OF EVIL and THE THIRD MAN
Bette Davis THE LETTER, THE LITTLE FOXES, OF HUMAN BONDAGE and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
Pat Hingle THE GRIFTERS
Christopher Lee THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Bob Gunton THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Barbara Stanwyck DOUBLE INDEMNITY

Updated On: 7/20/15 at 12:18 PM

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Posted: 7/17/15 at 5:16pm

Great list I've seen most of them. I had forgotten Laughton played Javert. I also watched a 70's movie Les Miz, it was the worst of the lot and there are a lot. Love when the warden goes into the hole and says to Dufresne, "or am I just being obtuse".

Stephanatic

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Posted: 7/18/15 at 3:05am

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

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Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:00am

Is Louise Fletcher a baddie in OFOTCN?

I was going to add Darth Vadar in Star Wars

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Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:35am

Peter and Paul from Funny Games.

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Posted: 7/18/15 at 11:07am

GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS

I have to question Carice van Houten (Melisandre) from Game of Thrones as being a bad guy. I'm not so sure she's bad. She has her own motivations, and yes, she's done some bad things, but who in GoT hasn't (well, who's still alive)? I guarantee you, if she's the one who save Jon, she will not be looked on as a bad guy. Joffrey and Ramsay? THOSE are bad guys. I think it's too early still to call Melisandre either way.

I would also seriously question Javert as a bad guy. Antagonist, yes. Bad guy? Hardly - in fact, he's as on the side of the law as anyone, which makes it impossible for him to be a "bad guy".

Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.

#10

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Posted: 7/18/15 at 12:05pm

Oooh good shout regarding Mel1sandre jasonf. She might be the hero of the hour?

#11

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Posted: 7/19/15 at 6:27am

Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death"'

Stephanatic

#12

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Posted: 7/19/15 at 7:09pm

I'd add J.K. Simmons in Whiplash to the list above.

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert

#13

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Posted: 7/20/15 at 1:04pm

Sure, some on my list are a lot worse than others, but Melisandre.... sure, if you don't consider demanding the burning of a little girl bad, then she's a perfect angel.

As far as having her reasons, all baddies have them (if they don't, the actor has failed at finding them).

Updated On: 7/20/15 at 01:04 PM

#14

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Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:17am

Kevin Dillon as Bunny played an evil dumb ass, but real bad guys need to be smart. Amon Goeth, Robert Gallo, real people who weren't morons. Berenguer was great as a bad guy in a few movies if I remember.

Stephanatic

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