Top 5 Favorite Villians

Okay but still, I'm pretty sure his name was Jack because that's how everyone remembers he as (except for HBO, where he's known as Rupert).

In no particular order off the top of my head:

The Joker - The Dark Knight (Heath Ledger)
Hannibal Lecter - Silence of the Lambs (Anthony Hopkins)
Jigsaw - Saw (Tobin Bell)
Agent Smith - The Matrix (Hugo Weaving)
Norman Bates - Psycho (Anthony Perkins)

Buscemi wrote:Okay but still, I'm pretty sure his name was Jack because that's how everyone remembers he as (except for HBO, where he's known as Rupert).

I'm pretty certain he is only widely known as the Narrator. The 'Jack' was changed from 'Joe' in the novel which is a reference from the Reader's Digest articles the narrator reads in which human organs refer to themselves as I am Joe's liver etc.

Anyway, my top 5 villains, off the otp of my head in no particular order:

Alien, Alien Series
The Shark, Jaws
Darth Vader, Star Wars
Headless Horseman, Sleepy Hollow
Malefoscent, Sleeping Beauty


Others which I feel deserve a mention:

Jack Torrance, The Shining
John Doe, Se7en
Patrick Bateman, American Psycho
Pennywise, It
Annie Wilkes, Misery

In the Shining I always thought of the hotel as the villian, Jack Torrance was more a victim.

geezer9687 wrote:If you paid more attention to the film, you would know that he is quoting from a magazine article. He is not referring to himself when he says Jack.

geezer9687 wrote:Because he takes what he read in the movie and uses it to describe himself as the film progresses.

more evidence for why this shantytown should be renamed "Geezer's Place"

becs wrote:In the Shining I always thought of the hotel as the villian, Jack Torrance was more a victim.

in the novel, yes, i agree..

I sort of agree that technically the hotel is evil but in a movie the hotel is just "there" while Jack Nicholson chases his wife and kid with an ax. Jack wins.

On the subject of Jack.

The narrator is not named. Tyler Durden is the name of the ego he creates for a separate personality but the narrator's name is never mentioned in the book or the movie. (There is a theory that the narrator and Tyler are both named Tyler and he uses fake names with every other character except Marla [Bob knows him as Cornelius])

He uses the third person Jack as a means of expression from the articles that he reads about organs. He simply uses this as another means to make himself less of a complete person by referring to individual traits that he is using at that time. This is due to his mentally fractured nature and that he sees himself as bits and pieces of a person but he is not a whole human. As my twin already mentioned, the articles were written in the third person using Jill and Joe in the book and Jack in the movie.

He is also called several other names by Marla when she asks who he is; Rupert, Cornelius, Travis, etc. As I have read the book 3 times and watched the movie dozens, I am an expert on this subject.

Damn Norman Bates is a good one! As is Jaws and Alien but they are more predator than villain in my eyes and are simply animals trying to eat and procreate and not inherently evil by their own standards.

1. Frank Booth - Blue Velvet
2. Harry Lime - The Third Man
3. Darth Vadar
4. Alien
5. Hans Gruber

I'm going to give an honorable mention to my personal favorite Hitchcock villain, Bob Rusk from Frenzy. Pure evil that one was.

I just put the new Sci-Fi poll up and I thought I'd mention that you have a few days to throw some more villians out there if you'd like. Next up after that, I believe, is going to be Movie Theater Candy, but I'll start that discussion when I post the final four on Sunday or Monday.

Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians (she was going to kill, skin and wear hundreds of babies)

Unidentified Alien Races that obviously hate us - pick any us vs alien film - there are many

Hans Gruber

The good looking people in Tod Browning's Freaks

John Doe (spacey) in Se7en

Alyson wrote:Cruella De Vil - 101 Dalmatians (she was going to kill, skin and wear hundreds of babies)

The good looking people in Tod Browning's Freaks

Great ones. Good point about Cruella. I guess I never thought of it that way.

And Freaks is an awesome one. I can't believe we all missed it.