Posted on 03/13/2018 6:03:03 PM PDT by beaversmom
I like Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator as Commodus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W71Cg00R0w
and
Rutger Hauer in Blade Runner at Roy Batty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCucXQ3IASs>
but I'm sure I have others if I really pondered it.
RE Falk:
I remember watching “Columbo” on TV with my old man when I was a kid. Great series.
***Emilio Fernandez***
He was the bad guy in lots of movies! He was also a great director.
Robert Helpmann, the Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. SOB gave me nightmares for a week when I was a kid.
That story came from “Paul Harvey” so take it for what it is worth. It may very well be true.
-PJ
It took 64 posts to get to Hannibal Lecter? What’s happening here?!!
Both excellent.
Seven?
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Yeah, saw some retro westerns with him in it. I liked him. In real life Jack Elam was a real pussycat - loved to entertain kids and stuff. Then he was in a movie with Burt Reynolds and he played Proctologist. Funny.
You wonder how he had time to eat, for his credits on IMDB go on and on and . . .
He was such a manipulative creep in Love, Lies and Murder that more than once I wanted to dive into the screen and belt the crap out of him. Moreso as it was based on a true event.
You can download it from YouTube. It is a three-hour movie, so you will have lot of chances to snarl at him. :-)
Here’s a stream-of-consciousness list without a lot of thought...
I just watched “Sunset Boulevard” (1950) for the first time a couple weeks ago. Gloria Swanson played a real, real baddie as Norma Desmond, a washed up silent film star trying to recapture her glory days. She is the perfect psycho.
Speaking of “Psycho,” Anthony Perkins was a great baddie as Norman Bates.
Now that I started with Hitchcock, there was Raymond Burr as Lars Thorwald in the superb “Rear Window.” Wow, he was another really creepy and menacing bad guy before his good-guy lawyer role in “Perry Mason.”
For some reason, that made me think of Daniel Day-Lewis as Daniel Plainview in “There Will Be Blood.” He starts off rather normal, but driven, and eventually goes completely “round the bend” at the end of the film. Watching his go crazy was spectacular, kind of like watching Norma Desmond go nuts.
I seem to like people who start off as rather normal but evolve into monsters.
I’m adding some great movies to my Netflix queue, but I’m not sure about “Tank Girl” — “In the year 2033, a comet has turned Earth into a rainless wasteland, and a mega-corporation controls all of the remaining water. In an attempt to end the evil reign of the company’s CEO (Malcolm McDowell), Rebecca (Lori Petty) and her shy friend (Naomi Watts) hijack a stolen tank and jet — at once becoming Tank Girl and Jet Girl. But if they want to save the world, the super-heroines will need help from a mutant race of kangaroo-humans.”
You can check it out here.
The Usual Suspects.
Alida Valli in THE PARADINE CASE.
Katherine Hepburn in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER.
Bette Davis in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.
Ruth Gordon in ROSEMARY'S BABY.
Judith Anderson in Medea.
Billy Drago as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables.
Thanks !
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