Al Pacino as “John Milton” in The Devil’s Advocate.
John Malkovich as Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont in Dangerous Liaisons. Mmm deliciously hard hearted and just so…wrong.
Vicomte de Valmont: You see, I have no intention of breaking down her prejudices. I want her to believe in God and virtue and the sanctity of marriage, and still not be able to stop herself. I want the excitement of watching her betray everything that’s is most important to her. Surely you understand that. I thought betrayal was your favorite word.
Marquise de Merteuil: No, no…“cruelty.” I always think that has a nobler ring to it.
And Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil was just as delicious.
Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman
Longshanks, King Edward I as the newlywed porking tyrant in Braveheart.
The man with no eyes from Cool Hand Luke
Then no evil thing will!
I nominate Henry Fonda, as Frank, in Once Upon A Time In The West.
He stands out as a cert U villian (for those outside the UK, it’s a villian anyone of any age can watch in the cinema), who keeps chilling as you grow up.
Yul Bryner’s gun slinger in Westworld was pretty good for someone who had basically one line to repeat again and again. I guess it added to the simple relentlessness of his onward march.
But Edward didn’t pork the newlywed- it was one of his underlings, wasn’t it?
It’s been awhile but I think you’re right. Thanks.
Okay then… off with that Lord’s head!
Nobody porked her onscreen except William Wallace. It was, however, suggested by the narrator (e.g. Robert the Bruce) that Edward I planned to pork her.
In real life, of course, Edward the Longshanks actually married the young French girl himself; he was 60 when he married 17-year-old Marguerite. (he was widowed from Eleanor, who he by all acocunts loved very much.) He and his teenaged bride had three children so I guess he porked her.
His son, Edward II (not his first but the others all died as children) also married a French princess (though she wasn’t called by that title) but she wasn’t nearly as nice as Sophie Marceau’s character, believe me. Despite the movie’s suggestion, Edward I was actually dead before they got married and had had misgivings about the arrangement.
Edward II really was probably a bisexual, not a homosexual as is suggested in the movie, and he wasn’t a wimp, either.
I have always been partial to the Incarnation of Evil (played by David Warner) in Time Bandits.
Hades in Disney’s Heracles. A pretty forgettable film, except for him.
The Thing in The Thing. Though you could argue it’s not really a villain.
All the best ones have gone, but I thought Tim Curry’s Lord Of Darkness in Legend was a pretty good villian.
Stephen Dorff in Blade, Gary Oldman in The Professional, and from TV: The Cigarette Smoking Man from X Files.
Bob Gunton as Warden Norton in The Shawshank Redemption. Soulless, corrupt bastard, made worse by pious hypocrisy and abuse of authority.
Shere Khan from Disney’s Jungle Book. George Sanders nailed it!
Other than that there are a few that everyone probably knows. Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, Norman Bates, Dr Strangelove (does he count?)
Wait, the gal who got porked on her wedding night wasn’t Wallace’s lady love, it was Morrison’s (Tommy Flanagan).
:smack:
Wilson. He was fast, fast on the draw.
Kurt Dussander, from Apt Pupil
Palance and Mckellan, two of the greats
McKellen also made a wonderfully evil, sly villain in his 1930s British Fascist take on Richard III.
And DeNiro as Mr. Cyphre in Angel Heart. Brrrrrrrrrrr.