Movie Villains You Love to Hate
The Sheriff of Nottingham – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Magua - The Last of the Mohicans
Frank Nitti - The Untouchables
Scorpio - Dirty Harry
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Roat - Wait Until Dark
Ming the Merciless - Flash Gordon
Darth Vader - Star Wars: Rogue One
Actually scary IMHO once and only once, in the finale of that movie.
Movie Villains You Love to Hate
The Sheriff of Nottingham – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Magua - The Last of the Mohicans
Frank Nitti - The Untouchables
Scorpio - Dirty Harry
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Roat - Wait Until Dark
Ming the Merciless - Flash Gordon
Darth Vader - Star Wars: Rogue One
Elliot Marston - Quigley Down Under
Alan Rickman again. Deliciously evil.
Movie Villains You Love to Hate
The Sheriff of Nottingham – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Magua - The Last of the Mohicans
Frank Nitti - The Untouchables
Scorpio - Dirty Harry
Hans Gruber - Die Hard
Roat - Wait Until Dark
Ming the Merciless - Flash Gordon
Darth Vader - Star Wars: Rogue One
Elliot Marston - Quigley Down Under
“John Doe” - Se7en
Kevin Spacey is wonderfully creepy in the role; his beatific expression in the last scene is chilling.
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Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
That poem that Mississippi (James Caan) recites is called Eldorado and was written by Poe
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Spoons
August 8, 2023, 8:32am
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Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Samuel L. Jackson, as Coach Carter, keeps asking his his high school basketball players, “What is your deepest fear?” They fumble around, never finding the correct answer, until one does, quoting Marianne Williamson:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
“Oh Captain! My Captain!”
Mike_H
August 8, 2023, 2:24pm
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Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
William Blake - Blade Runner
Roy Batty misquotes Blake: “Fiery the angels fell; deep thunder rolled around their shores; burning with the fires of Orc. ” (the actual quote is " Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll’d Around their shores, indignant burning with the fires of Orc. ")
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
William Blake - Blade Runner
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
His classic poem “Oxymandias” is recited by the armless and legless Harrison in the segment “Meal Ticket.”
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
William Blake - Blade Runner
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
William Shakespeare - Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
William Blake - Blade Runner
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
William Shakespeare - Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
Herman Melville - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Khan’s obsession with Kirk echoes Ahab’s obsession with the whale, and he quotes or paraphrases lines from Moby Dick several times during the film.
gkster
August 9, 2023, 4:56am
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Famous authors quoted in movies that aren’t about them
Ernest Hemingway - Se7en
Geoffrey Chaucer - A Knight’s Tale
Edgar Allen Poe – El Dorado
Marianne Williamson - Coach Carter
Walt Whitman - Dead Poet’s Society
William Blake - Blade Runner
Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
William Shakespeare - Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country
Herman Melville - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Emily Dickinson - Sophie’s Choice
Lines from her poem “Ample Make this Bed” are quoted to great effect in at least 3 scenes
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Bayaker
August 9, 2023, 11:17am
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Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Mike_H
August 9, 2023, 11:38am
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Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
She played Scout.
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High
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Rebo
August 9, 2023, 1:26pm
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Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear (1991)
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear (1991)
David Niven - The Guns of Navarone
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear (1991)
David Niven - The Guns of Navarone
Leila Kenzle - Other People’s Money
Actors / Actresses who have appeared in films with Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday
Ingrid Bergman, Spellbound
Sir Laurence Olivier, The Boys From Brazil
Mary Badham, To Kill A Mockingbird
Dean Jagger, Twelve O’Clock High
Robert De Niro - Cape Fear (1991)
David Niven - The Guns of Navarone
Leila Kenzle - Other People’s Money
Patrick Troughton - The Omen