AFI's 100 Heroes & Villains

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101

Well some characters that I thought should have been givens who were overlooked completely:

Villains:

  1. Godzilla (guy in a rubber suit)
  2. Khan (Ricardo Montalbon)
  3. the Borg Queen (Alice Krige)
  4. Carrie White (Sissy Spacek)
  5. Dr. Frank’n’Furter (Tim Curry)
  6. Frankenstein’s Monster (Boris Karloff)
  7. the Werewolf (Lon Chaney)
  8. The Replicants from “Blade Runner” (Rutger Hauer in particular)
  9. the Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney)
  10. Kurtz (Marlon Brando)

Heroes:

  1. A–hole Brad (Barry Bostwick) & slutty Janet (Susan Sarandon)
  2. Kirk (Bill Shatner) and/or Spock (Leonard Nimoy)
  3. Howard Roarke (Gary Cooper)
  4. Spider-Man (Tobey MacGuire)
  5. Bugs Bunny (voice of Mel Blanc - short films only, but originally did run in movie houses)
  6. E.T.
  7. Shaft (Richard Roundtree)
  8. Rosemary (Mia Farrow)
  9. Arthur, king of the Brits and his loyal & true - but silly, stupid - kiiiiiii-niggitts of the Round Table, who know the difference between European & African swallows…and their coconut-clapping patsies (Monty Python’s Flying Circus)
  10. Hercule Poirot (Albert Finney)
102

The Borg Queen? Only Trekkies care about the Borg Queen. Kahn, sure, since he’s from way back.

Carrie White was defnitely not a villain. She was the heroine of the film.

Janet from RHPS certainly wasn’t slutty, and Brad wasn’t an asshole. They were just two straight-arrow kids.

103

I thought it was strange that Norman Bates from “Psycho” was a villain, too. Look at that adorable puppy dog face; could Tony Perkins reallly be a “villain”? I was thinking about him as I scanned the list, reflecting that he’d be high on my list of heroes, or anti-heroes anyway; imagine my surprise when I saw him quite high on the list of evil-doers. I mean, he does get top billing in the credits.

104

I don’t know if you’re aware, but when people watch the RHPS in theaters (where they call out comments and bring props), the call is always “Asshole!” when Brad is introduced, and “Slut!” when Janet is.

105

Bah, what do those people know? Brad was cool.

106

jsc1953, I’m sorry. Since Verbal Kint was already mentioned back on page 1 of this thread as a villian, I guess I didn’t see how my comment was any more a spoiler than that post was.

107

Well, you could easily put “Norman’s Mother” as a villian. Sure, I wouldn’t want to stay one night around Norman Bates, but I don’t feel he’s anywhere near the level of Hannibel lector.

108

I heard this being discussed on radio yesterday. I am really keen to see To Kill a Mockingbird again as one of the reviewers whinged about the choice of Atticus Finch. He said roughly “Watch the movie again. It’s a text book example of how a stuck up lawyer in a small town can get everyone offside so that his innocent client is convicted.” Not quite the way I remember it but an excuse to watch it again.

109

Good Lord. Did he provide any additional analysis? That’s the most ass-backwards interpretation I’ve ever heard.