Jin Hayami
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So I just finished watching Gangs of New York. As you can tell by my sig it reminded me that Bill Cutting is one of the best villains that was ever conceived. So here's my list what's yours?
1. Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Played by: Brad Pitt
What made him so good?: The cultural impact and insanity. Another agent of chaos created by the psyche of a deranged pathetic office worker. He turned a group of similarly lowly blue collar and depressed middle management into a small army of vicious degenerates hell bent upon accomplishing Project Mayhem. To quote Alexander Walkers review in the Evening Standard "This movie is not only anti-capitalist, it is anti-society, and indeed anti-God." Then there's the cultural impact he created. After Fight Club came out in theaters dozens of real life fight clubs around the country sprang up. Here we are fifteen years later and you still hear people saying "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club."
2. The Joker in The Dark Knight
Played by: Heath Ledger
What made him so good?: The sheer batshit insanity of the character. He was the definition of evil for the sake of evil. Another true agent of chaos. The only person that's ever truly done the batman villain justice on screen went so insane from playing him that it killed him. He didn't want to destroy Gotham for money or any kind of profit. He just wanted to "watch the world burn."
3. Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs
Played by: Anthony Hopkins
What made him so good?: His ability to get inside peoples heads, destroy them, then eat their organs. He brought a sense of class and dignity to being a psychopath. He is a genius level serial killer with a horrifying history and obsession with Clarice that rivals Beiber fans.
4. Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York
Played by: Daniel Day Lewis
What made him so good?: The complexity he brought to the table and the fact that he was based on a real person. He openly hated the Irish and the politicians but most of his lackeys were Irishmen and he worked alongside politicians. He was the son of a soldier who believed that the only thing required to be a true American was the willingness to die for your country. He maintained a kind of twisted pride and honor to the point of self mutilation and showed mercy only to the son of the "only man he ever killed worth remembering" and seemed to want to die at his hands in battle.
5. SS Colonel Hans Landa "The Jew Hunter" in Inglorious Basterds
Played by: Christoph Waltz
What made him so good?: Hans Landa provided a...strange character addition to Inglorious Basterds. He was eerily pleasant to everyone. Especially the people he was about to murder. Between ordering the deaths of the unfortunate family of Shoshanna and downright strangling Bridget von Hammersmark in a backroom he was always rather polite and pleasant. That was creepy. Add in the fact that he seems to ALWAYS know what's going on before he even interrogates someone. Then you see how he was willing to sell out the entire Nazi party to save himself and you just have to think "What a tool."
1. Tyler Durden in Fight Club
Played by: Brad Pitt
What made him so good?: The cultural impact and insanity. Another agent of chaos created by the psyche of a deranged pathetic office worker. He turned a group of similarly lowly blue collar and depressed middle management into a small army of vicious degenerates hell bent upon accomplishing Project Mayhem. To quote Alexander Walkers review in the Evening Standard "This movie is not only anti-capitalist, it is anti-society, and indeed anti-God." Then there's the cultural impact he created. After Fight Club came out in theaters dozens of real life fight clubs around the country sprang up. Here we are fifteen years later and you still hear people saying "The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club."
2. The Joker in The Dark Knight
Played by: Heath Ledger
What made him so good?: The sheer batshit insanity of the character. He was the definition of evil for the sake of evil. Another true agent of chaos. The only person that's ever truly done the batman villain justice on screen went so insane from playing him that it killed him. He didn't want to destroy Gotham for money or any kind of profit. He just wanted to "watch the world burn."
3. Hannibal Lector in Silence of the Lambs
Played by: Anthony Hopkins
What made him so good?: His ability to get inside peoples heads, destroy them, then eat their organs. He brought a sense of class and dignity to being a psychopath. He is a genius level serial killer with a horrifying history and obsession with Clarice that rivals Beiber fans.
4. Bill "The Butcher" Cutting in Gangs of New York
Played by: Daniel Day Lewis
What made him so good?: The complexity he brought to the table and the fact that he was based on a real person. He openly hated the Irish and the politicians but most of his lackeys were Irishmen and he worked alongside politicians. He was the son of a soldier who believed that the only thing required to be a true American was the willingness to die for your country. He maintained a kind of twisted pride and honor to the point of self mutilation and showed mercy only to the son of the "only man he ever killed worth remembering" and seemed to want to die at his hands in battle.
5. SS Colonel Hans Landa "The Jew Hunter" in Inglorious Basterds
Played by: Christoph Waltz
What made him so good?: Hans Landa provided a...strange character addition to Inglorious Basterds. He was eerily pleasant to everyone. Especially the people he was about to murder. Between ordering the deaths of the unfortunate family of Shoshanna and downright strangling Bridget von Hammersmark in a backroom he was always rather polite and pleasant. That was creepy. Add in the fact that he seems to ALWAYS know what's going on before he even interrogates someone. Then you see how he was willing to sell out the entire Nazi party to save himself and you just have to think "What a tool."
