In Reply to: Need help compiling list a ruthless bad guys posted by Dick E. Cundt on May 22, 2011 at 13:43:12:
One of Pat Hingle's absolute best performances. One. Scary. Ruthless. Badguy.
I find a lot of the bad guys mentioned so far a bit cartoonish - I think the really scary bad guys (with a couple notable exceptions) aren't the ones that drool and shout but the ones that are cold, controlled and reptilian - merely ruthless isn't very interesting; Ian McShane as mobster Teddy Bass is WAY scarier to me than Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast.
Here's some others:
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem)- No Country For Old Men
Mortwell (Michael Caine) - Mona Lisa
Harry (Ralph Fiennes) - In Bruges
Janine Cody (Jackie Weaver) and Andrew "Pope" Cody (Ben Mendelsohn) - Animal Kingdom
For sheer over the top, drooling badness you can't top Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet or Woody Harrelson as Mickey in Natural Born Killers.
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Follow Ups
- Bobo Justus in The Grifters. - Harmonia 16:09:04 05/24/11 (1)
- Wow, thanks for bringing up Mortwell... - mpathus 20:44:04 05/26/11 (0)