Posted on 07/08/2017 9:57:05 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
Who's your favorite movie villain?
Hubba, hubba.
I liked Michael Beihn as “Johnny Ringo”, and Booth Powers as “Curly Joe”, in the 1993 “Tombstone”.
Rogers was a very very interesting character from that era.
In his youth accused and if I remember this right convicted of counterfeiting the local New Hampshire currency. Again if I remember this right ran off to the frontier to escape jail. (In early colonial New Hampshire running off to the frontier might mean going to the other side of town if not across the street!) Joined the militia where ever he settled down and started his famous military career. He was always on the look out for money making opportunities, acquiring land, etc. but so were a lot of people in those days. He also had a huge drinking problem which the show does highlight. He was always looked down on by other British officers though some did view him as a military tactical genius in the context of the colonial fronteir. Again the show does a good job of portraying that. What a lot of people don’t know was in the beginning Rogers did offer his services to the American cause. Many including Washington were anxious to sign him up. However his “offer” was always more in a “What’s in it for me context? Then a patriotic context.” Washington did interview him and he showed up for the interview as an old obnoxious drunk! (I missed the first two seasons of Turn. Did they show Rogers’ overtures to the Patriot side or the Washington interview?) So Washington dismissed him as useless and washed up, anyway the Patriot side had some of the Ranger’s senior officers so why gambled on a drunken potential troublemaker. (Note Washington was also aware of Rogers’ contact with the British.) However from what I can remember reading Rogers was never able to replicate the success he had in the French and Indian War as a Tory ranger in the Revolutionary War. (Turn shows him being far more effective then I remember reading!) Again if I remember this right he kind of faded away over time into drunken obscurity.
YES! Yes. I forgot Heath’s “Joker”.
Heath Ledger brought to the character certain traits unexplored in the script.
One is, watch every time Heath’s “Joker” is called crazy by another character. You can see him visibly irritated.
Jack Palance
Alan Rickman
Dennis Hopper
Gert Frobe
Darth Vader
Hillary Clinton
Chuck Schumer
Harry Reid
Have you heard that in the recent comics Batman / Bruce Wayne proposed marriage to Catwoman Selina Kyle?
BTW, Camren Bicondova has grown up to be a cute 18 year woman. https://twitter.com/camrenbicondova
Al Pacino as Satan in “The Devil’s Advocate”. He played it amazingly well.
Rogers was portrayed as working for the Queens Rangers.
I always assumed him to be a mercenary that would work as a double agent
“a guy on his own... get in.. get out..”
The Usual Suspects
Keyser Söze
Robert Rogers. Turn.
There are so many great mentions here that I agree with, but I can only think of Rutger Hauer in The Hitcher as one more worth adding.
I just also remembered Vincent Price as Dr. Phibes (great soundtrack too if you can find the vinyl like I picked up two years ago), and of course any lion, tiger, elephant or Cape buffalo in a documentary.
+1
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) in Die Hard.
Zippers he was about as messed up as they come
Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors. A cannibalistic, talking, smirking plant. What’s not to love?
Ming the Merciless in the 30’s Flash Gordon movies.
Al Gore.... An Inconvenient Truth
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