From hh1edits (who I found out lives in the U.K.):
Man’s Heart of Darkness: A montage of the best villains to grace the silver screen, displaying the human condition at its worst. No Darth Vader, T2000, Predator or Freddy Kruger to be found here, just 44 of the most badass human villains in film history!I don’t own any of the footage presented here, this video was made merely to pay homage to these films and not for any profit or commercial reasons.
Music:
Exerpt from ‘East Hastings’ – Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The list of villains in the order of their appearance:
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men)
Don Logan (Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast)?
Max Cady (Robert De Niro in Cape Fear)
Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York)
Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman in True Romance)
Gaear Grimsrud (Peter Stormare in Fargo)?
Clarence Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith in Robocop)?
John Ryder (Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher)
Captain Vidal (Sergi López in Pan’s Labyrinth)
Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man)?
Alonzo (Denzel Washington in Training Day)
Mr Blonde (Michael Madsen in Resevoir Dogs)
Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now)
Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God)?
Zero Wolf (Raoul Trujillo in Apocalypto)
Kit (Martin Sheen in Badlands?
Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins in Psycho)?
Michael Myers (Halloween)
Ray (Ray Winstone in Nil by Mouth)?
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale in American Psycho)
Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron in Monster)?
Lord Summerisle (Christopher Lee in The Wicker Man)?
Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Frank Booth (Dennis Hooper in Blue Velvet)
Paul (Arno Frisch in Funny Games)?
Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter)?
Snoop (Felicia Pearson in The Wire)
Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell in Death Proof)?
Hans Grueber (Alan Rickman in Die Hard)
Mr Blonde (2nd appearance-Michael Madsen in Resevoir Dogs)
Aaron (Edward Norton in Primal Fear)
Tony Montana (Al Pacino in Scarface)?
Jigsaw (Saw)?
Alex Forrest (Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction)
Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci in Casino)?
Baby Jane Hudson (Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?)?
Harry Lime (Orson Welles in The Third Man)
Nurse Ratchet (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)?
The Joker (Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight)?
Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates in Misery)?
John Doe (Kevin Spacey in Seven)?
Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter (Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs)?
Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson in The Shining)
Alex (Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange)
Which are your favorite cinematic villains of all time?
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You got a lot of good ones on that list, Scott. All deserving. Here's a couple more of my all-time favorite villians I think SHOULD be on that list:
Det. Jimmy Shaker (Gary Sinese in "Ransom" 1996)
Col. William Tavington (Jason Isaacs in "The Patriot" 2000)
Stansfield (Gary Oldman in "The Professional" 1994)
Carter Burke (Paul Riser in "Aliens" 1986)
- E.C. Henry from Bonney Lake, WA
Very interesting question. I'm going to go back in film history to my earliest and perhaps the best "villains" and also this is to re-enforce the fact that the better the villain the better the hero…
Basil Rathbone in "the Adventures of Robin Hood" and "The Mark of Zorro".
Eduardo Cianelli-"Gunga Din"
Cedric Hardwick " The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
Frank Thring as Aella in "The Vikings"
Frank Allenby as Ulrich the Hawk in" The Flame and the Arrow"
Walter Matthau as Bodine in " The Kentuckian"
Stephen Boyd as Massala in "Ben-Hur"
Richard Boone as Cicero Grimes in "Hombre"
Fredrick Forrest as Blue Duck in "Lonesome Dove".
Tie between Karl Maden and Martin Landau as Tom Fitch and Jesse Coe in "Nevada Smith".
Sir Lawrence Olivier as Crassus in "Spartacus"
Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance in " The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
I could go on and on but…
The intensity of the villain defines the magnitude of the protag's task!!
You get the point right?
Out of those I'd have to go with John Ryder in The Hitcher. That guy was truly sick.
All great, especially happy to see Gary Oldman from True Romance up there. Here are some others you can't forget:
Longshanks, King Edward I (Patrick McGoohan "Braveheart" 1995)
The Humungus (Kjell Nilsson "The Road Warrior" 1981)
Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger "The Terminator" 1984)
Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving "The Matrix" 1999)
Brick Top (Alan Ford "Snatch" 2000)
Noah Cross (John Huston "Chinatown" 1974
Captain (Strother Martin "Cool Hand Luke" 1967)
Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix, "Gladiator")
Bill Lumbergh (Gary Cole, "Office Space")
Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (Gary Oldman, "The Fifth Element")
From that list my personal favorites are Heath Ledger's Joker, Hannibal Lecter and Anton Chigurh. What do they all have in common? They are all inscrutable. As Alfred said in "The Dark Knight", some men aren't looking for anything logical. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.
I find that the most terrifying villains are the ones who don't act out of identifiable motives. We can wrap our minds around the racially motivated 'nativist' (Bill the Butcher), the ultra-patriotic military officer in the grip of nationalistic (read demonic) ideology (Captain Vidal), even the extreme adrenaline junkie (Stuntman Mike)! But when a villain seems to lack any of this all-too-human motivation, but instead strikes and wreaks havoc and chaos for no apparent reason, whose morality seems to be on a transcendent plane, we don't know what to do with them. They almost seem to be creatures from another world. We can't wrap our minds around them. That's what makes them great villains.
Nurse Ratchett from Cuckoo's Nest
How about those villains in this video montage?
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TLwkyaa8hg)