Who's the best film villian of all time?

[Chichiri]

Oh, how I wish there were more than 10 slots for a poll . . .

[NewJeffCT]

1. I voted for Vader, but

all your movies are fairly recent...

I'm sure there are plenty of good villains before Darth Vader.

[Chichiri]

2. Hence the "other" option.

I'm a child of the '80s and '90s, what can I say?

[Beware the Beast Man]

20. I would have voted for Vader,

but the last three Star Wars films changed the scope of his character- he's more of a tragic figure than pure villain.

[henslee]

3. Zel Marathon Man..... my all time fave.

[Chichiri]

4. Is it safe?

[henslee]

10. Is it?

[RevCheesehead]

5. Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life"

aka Lionel Barrymore

[Chichiri]

7. Oooh, good one!

[nytemare]

24. I think Cheney always reminded me of him.

The likeness caused a healthy distrust of Cheney from the start.

[RoyGBiv]

27. I'd go with that one as well n/t

[terrya]

6. Angela Lansbury in "The Manchurian Candidate"

The ultimate in evil. Uses her own son to gain ultimate power.

[Chichiri]

8. Oooh, also good one!

[Wetzelbill]

9. Shooter McGavin (Happy Gilmore) and Big Ern McCracken (Kingpin)

Best villains ever!!!!!!!

[Az]

11. Bijomaru

From the movie Azumi. Flat out the most evil villain ever.

[tedoll78]

12. HAL from "2001: A Space Odyssey"

He's so deliciously eeeevil!

[Twillig]

13. "Frank" from 'Once Upon a Time in the West'

Henry Fonda as an incredible murdering rat-bastard!



"What are we gonna do with this one, Frank?"


"Well, now that you called me by name..."

I was gonna spoil it with another S-shot, but, "Only at the point of dyin'" as Bronson's character would say...

It's my favorite Western by far.

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Frank Booth

[CanuckAmok]

33. DADDY WANTS TO FUCK!

[ghostsofgiants]

35. I'll send you a love letter! Straight from my heart, fucker!

You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet from a fucking gun, fucker! You recieve a love letter from me, you're fucked forever! You understand, fuck? I'll send you straight to hell, fucker!

[Tallison]

43. As psychopaths go, he's up there

So is Tommy Devito.

http://henancius.martin-scorsese.net/sounds/goodfellas/batts.wav

[Kire]

15. Atilla the Fascist in 1900

one sick fucker, played to perfection by Donald Sutherland

Robert De Niro and Gerard Depardieu are the "heroes" in this Italian film.

[nytemare]

16. Vader's boss, Palpatine.

None more evil than him. Vader was redeemed.

Of those you listed, I would choose Hannibal. I also agree with the Queen of Diamonds from Manchurian Candidate. I might add Ralph Fiennes' role in Schindler's List.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Elvira Gulch/Wicked Witch of the West

"I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too!"

[nytemare]

18. Have you read the book "Wicked"?

The back story of the Wicked Witch of the West? Quite a book.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Not yet, that one is on my list though!

:hi:

[bliss_eternal]

25. I read it...

Couldn't put it down, when I started it.
:hi:

[nytemare]

29. I like a different take on things.

It is interesting to find/discover people's motivations, including the Wicked Witch.

:)

[bliss_eternal]

32. I love the way she was portrayed in that book.

The way she was merely misunderstood based on the color of her skin. Such a profound statement that could be applicable today.

The way he questions what evil really is, and challenges the reader to look beyond the surface of everything.

It was a bit of a challenging read (at least for me), with the language and phrasing he used, as well as the way the story tended to jump around. But I did enjoy it! :thumbsup:

I am excited about seeing the stage show of it, next year! I know it isn't true to the book, but think it will still be enjoyable.

[nytemare]

38. Yes, it is a challenging read.

But, worthwhile.

:)

[nytemare]

21. I forgot to add Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates) from Misery

What a great role!

[usedtobesick]

22. Hans

yippie-ai-yay Mother Fucker

[Kire]

41. Hans Bubie?

[Ikonoklast]

23. Robert Mitchum in "Night of the Hunter"

If you've never seen it, do so. Guarantee to give you the creeping horrors for a while.

Something about the old black and white movies that seem to exaggerate the mood of evil, even when understated.:scared:

[bliss_eternal]

26. Michael Corleone, Godfather...

...don't know if I could say, "of all time" but definitely one of the best film villains ever, at least as far as I'm concerned.

[StellaBlue]

28. Joan Crawford

In anything.

[nytemare]

30. No more wire hangers!!

:)

[mitchum]

31. Another vote for Robert Mitchum as Rev Harry Powell...

in "Night of the Hunter"
second place: Big Bob Mitchum again as Max Cady in "Cape Fear" Don't waste your time with that horrible Robert DeNiro remake

[CanuckAmok]

34. Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) in Network

Arthur Jensen: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it. You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations; there are no peoples. There are no regions; there are no Arabs. There is no third world; there is no west. There is only one holistic system of systems; one vast interwoven, interactive multivariant multinational dominion of dollars, petrodollars, electrodollars Reich marks, rands, roubles, pounds and shekels. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today. It is the international system of currency that determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things. You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and you will atone! You howl about America. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM, ITT, AT &T, and Dupont, Dow, Union Carbide and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies. The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live to see that perfect world in which there is no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company for which all men will work to serve a common purpose and in which all men will own a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxiety tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you to preach this evangel.

Beale: Why me?

Arthur Jensen: Because you're on television, dummy. Sixty million people watch you every night of the week, Monday through Friday.

Beale: I have seen the face of God!

Arthur Jensen: You just might be right.

[BigMcLargehuge]

36. Max Cady in the original Cape Fear

Robert Mitchum NAILED evil with that one.

[6000eliot]

37. Uncle Charlie from "Shadow of a Doubt"

"Did you know the world is a foul sty?"

Also, Angela Lansbury's character in "The Manchurian Candidate."

[bliss_eternal]

39. Uncle Charlie is a good one!

:hi:

Love that movie!

[bucknaked]

40. From another post seen here....

Not sure why, but that one might've produced a few bowel movements when I was a wee fellow and that series was still on tv.

[Xipe Totec]

42. Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus

Played by Harry J. Lennix; what a scary rendition!

ACT V

LUCIUS -Art thou not sorry for these heinous deeds?

AARON -Ay, that I had not done a thousand more.
Even now I curse the day--and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my curse,--
Wherein I did not some notorious ill,
As kill a man, or else devise his death,
Ravish a maid, or plot the way to do it,
Accuse some innocent and forswear myself,
Set deadly enmity between two friends,
Make poor men's cattle break their necks;
Set fire on barns and hay-stacks in the night,
And bid the owners quench them with their tears.
Oft have I digg'd up dead men from their graves,
And set them upright at their dear friends' doors,
Even when their sorrows almost were forgot;
And on their skins, as on the bark of trees,
Have with my knife carved in Roman letters,
'Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead.'
Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things
As willingly as one would kill a fly,
And nothing grieves me heartily indeed
But that I cannot do ten thousand more.

[Kingofalldems]

44. Robert Deniro in Cape Fear

Also a minor villain---Richard Kiel as Jaws in a couple James Bond movies.