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| redPen |
Posted - 12/29/2006 : 17:42:27
This'll tell us what's really in these wicked movie minds of ours:
Who is your favorite movie villain and why? Also, what is your favorite villain "evil line"? The line does NOT necessarily have to come from your favorite villain, though it certainly may.
For me, the most fun villain was Russell Crowe's "S.I.D. 6.7" in Virtuosity. I think it was because he had such a boyish delight about doing his dastardly deeds. For the non-viewers, Crowe played the physical manifestation of a virtual reality persona, who was the mental composite of 100+ serial killers (Gacy, Speck, etc.), including one fictional killer who had murdered Denzel Washington's wife and daughter. So now, Crowe is playing cat-and-mouse with Washington. In one scene, he releases Washington from cuffs after killing the guards watching him (which Washington will then get the blame for). Before he leaves, S.I.D. says gleefully: "Just because I'm carrying the joy of killing your family inside me doesn't mean we can't be friends." Ooooooooooooooooooh, that's cold!
However, my single favorite villain line was uttered in "The Long Kiss Goodnight." Geena Davis plays a government spy, and the bad guy she's trying to stop has her daughter hostage. After arranging a meeting time and place, the villain says in a serious monotone:
"And Charlie? You fuck with me, I'll blind the kid and shoot out her knees."
I think it's the gruesome and well-thought-out details that make that line the "villainiest" for me!
C'mon, everyone . . . villain up! |
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 13:15:34
quote:
Originally posted by Paddy C
Smith: Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I... hate... this place, this..zoo, this..prison, this...reality.. whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. ...It's the smell, if there is such a thing. ...I feel... saturated by it. I can...taste, your stink. And every time I do, I feel I have somehow been..infected by it, it's repulsive. I must get out of here. I must get free...and in this mind...is the key. My key.
Oh, yeah ... I remember Mikey!  
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| Paddy C |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 13:13:29
Smith has some great lines in the first Matrix movie (cliche i know, but still one of my favourites). This speech to Morpheus really tees him up as just plain baad, thanks mainly to Hugo Weaving being possessed by evil spirits and a very scary man.
[Smith has been interrogating Morpheus in vain, and decides to send away the other agents and disconnect his earpiece]
Smith: Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I... hate... this place, this..zoo, this..prison, this...reality.. whatever you want to call it. I can't stand it any longer. ...It's the smell, if there is such a thing. ...I feel... saturated by it. I can...taste, your stink. And every time I do, I feel I have somehow been..infected by it, it's repulsive. I must get out of here. I must get free...and in this mind...is the key. My key.
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| ChocolateLady |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 11:39:43
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Originally posted by GHcool
Something's always bothered me about the Miss Gulch subplot. Miss Gulch got a warrent from the sheriff to kill Toto, who was smart enough to run away from Miss Gulch back to Dorothy. The tornado came and sent Dorothy to Toto to Oz. Now, if all of the scenes that took place in Oz was actually a dream, doesn't that mean that Miss Gulch still has a warrent for Toto's execution and it is only a matter of time until she comes back to Dorothy's family, this time more resolved to finish him off?
What? You want realism from that movie's plot? You've gotta be kidding!
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| Sean |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 10:20:10
An obvious one, but it's gotta be said:-
"A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."
and...
Mountain Man: I'm gonna make you squeal like a pig. Weeeeeeee!
Bobby: Weee!
Mountain Man: Weeeeeeee!
Bobby: Weee!
and from The Hitcher
John Ryder: You useless waste.
and...
Zed: Bring out the Gimp.
and...
Pazuzu: Your mother sucks cocks in Hell, Karras, you faithless slime.
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| GHcool |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 05:25:19
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
I'm gettin slightly off-topic from my own topic, but silly reminded me of one of my favorite little-discussed gems. He's certainly nobody's villain, but Uncle Henry from "Oz" laid a great doozy on Miss Gulch (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the West) when she was complaining about Toto.
MISS GULCH: "I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy."
UNCLE HENRY: "Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?"
MISS GULCH: "What's she done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!"
UNCLE HENRY: "You mean she bit ya?"
MISS GULCH: "No, her dog!"
UNCLE HENRY: "Oh, she bit her dog, eh?"
(Henry then immediately lets go of the gate he's holding open for Miss Gulch, and it whacks her in the ass.) 
You go, Henry!
Something's always bothered me about the Miss Gulch subplot. Miss Gulch got a warrent from the sheriff to kill Toto, who was smart enough to run away from Miss Gulch back to Dorothy. The tornado came and sent Dorothy to Toto to Oz. Now, if all of the scenes that took place in Oz was actually a dream, doesn't that mean that Miss Gulch still has a warrent for Toto's execution and it is only a matter of time until she comes back to Dorothy's family, this time more resolved to finish him off? |
| redPen |
Posted - 01/10/2007 : 05:19:43
I'm gettin slightly off-topic from my own topic, but silly reminded me of one of my favorite little-discussed gems. He's certainly nobody's villain, but Uncle Henry from "Oz" laid a great doozy on Miss Gulch (a.k.a. The Wicked Witch of the West) when she was complaining about Toto.
MISS GULCH: "I want to see you and your wife right away about Dorothy."
UNCLE HENRY: "Dorothy? Well, what has Dorothy done?"
MISS GULCH: "What's she done? I'm all but lame from the bite on my leg!"
UNCLE HENRY: "You mean she bit ya?"
MISS GULCH: "No, her dog!"
UNCLE HENRY: "Oh, she bit her dog, eh?"
(Henry then immediately lets go of the gate he's holding open for Miss Gulch, and it whacks her in the ass.)
You go, Henry! |
| damalc |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 23:31:01
quote:
"I find your lack of faith disturbing."
downtown scooped me. when i saw this thread that's what instantly came to mind. however, i think Iago from "Othello" is the most despicable character ever. i've seen "Othello" on stage twice and both times i really felt like i might kick his ass. i suppose the actor did his job, in that case.
"I hate the Moor;"
"Your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs."
"And what's he then that says I play the villain? When this advice is free I give and honest, ..."
i just remembered this one: Jack Torrance from "The Shining":
"Darling. Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just gonna bash your brains in. I'm gonna bash 'em right the fuck in."
does Alonzo from "Training Day" qualify as a villain?
"This shit's chess, it ain't checkers."
"I remember what it was to have a pretty young bride. You probably still fuck her face to face, don't you?"
"You disloyal, fool-ass, bitch-made nigga." |
| Shiv |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 03:44:30
Duh! I'll put in the quote this time.
"So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all with nasty big pointy teeth."
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| Shiv |
Posted - 01/09/2007 : 03:41:09
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
This'll tell us what's really in these wicked movie minds of ours:
Who is your favorite movie villain and why? Also, what is your favorite villain "evil line"? The line does NOT necessarily have to come from your favorite villain, though it certainly may.
For me, the most fun villain was Russell Crowe's "S.I.D. 6.7" in Virtuosity. I think it was because he had such a boyish delight about doing his dastardly deeds. For the non-viewers, Crowe played the physical manifestation of a virtual reality persona, who was the mental composite of 100+ serial killers (Gacy, Speck, etc.), including one fictional killer who had murdered Denzel Washington's wife and daughter. So now, Crowe is playing cat-and-mouse with Washington. In one scene, he releases Washington from cuffs after killing the guards watching him (which Washington will then get the blame for). Before he leaves, S.I.D. says gleefully: "Just because I'm carrying the joy of killing your family inside me doesn't mean we can't be friends." Ooooooooooooooooooh, that's cold!
However, my single favorite villain line was uttered in "The Long Kiss Goodnight." Geena Davis plays a government spy, and the bad guy she's trying to stop has her daughter hostage. After arranging a meeting time and place, the villain says in a serious monotone:
"And Charlie? You fuck with me, I'll blind the kid and shoot out her knees."
I think it's the gruesome and well-thought-out details that make that line the "villainiest" for me!
C'mon, everyone . . . villain up!
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| Koli |
Posted - 01/06/2007 : 08:39:01
I have to draw attention to (Auric) Goldfinger. My favourite line:
James Bond: Do you expect me to talk?
Auric Goldfinger: No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die.
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| w22dheartlivie |
Posted - 01/06/2007 : 05:43:13
quote:
Originally posted by silly
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
(After all, why would the Wicked Witch of the West bother to remember a cute little terrier's name, anyway?) 
Auntie Em:
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Took the dog.
Love,
Dorothy
Gotta love it. I bought a t-shirt in NYC in around 1983 that had that on it, along with one that said "Dorothy, Woman in bubble stopped by, said she knew you. Aunt Em." That's precisely what I was referencing when I wrote the first Wizard of Oz review on this page.
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| silly |
Posted - 01/05/2007 : 14:51:22
One of my favorites was the Sheriff of Nottingham (now Snape) in Robin Hood:
That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and cancel Christmas! |
| silly |
Posted - 01/05/2007 : 05:04:47
quote:
Originally posted by redPen
(After all, why would the Wicked Witch of the West bother to remember a cute little terrier's name, anyway?)
Auntie Em:
Hate you.
Hate Kansas.
Took the dog.
Love,
Dorothy |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 01/03/2007 : 15:30:23
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
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Originally posted by wildhartlivie
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(I still take some quiet pleasure at being 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon, Real World, even IF BaftaBabe is too, Film World.)
Actually, I'm one degree in the Meat World, because when I was London Editor of Film Journal International I had the great privilege to interview him [and Kyra] after a screening of The Woodsman.
Quite cool. And The Woodsman - I thought was a great film. Kevin Bacon takes risks and I admire that. At some point, he's got to win an Oscar (I'm hoping)!
I totally agree ... but it seems several of Bacon's choices don't get the attention they deserve. Such as Where the Truth Lies which works on so many levels. I'm sure both these films will feature in restrospective tribute screenings for decades.
As for evil lines, how's about Bela Lugosi's Count Dracula in the 1931 version: "There are far worse things awaiting man than death." Creepy or what?!!
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| Beanmimo |
Posted - 01/03/2007 : 13:47:04
Not quite my favourite villan or a very evil line but it is said with such sincerity that it is funny and menacing at the same time.
Midnight Run
Jimmy Serrano: You and that other dummy better start getting more personally involved in your work, or I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil. Do you understand me?
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