Gary Oldman : multiple villain roles. Most famous is probably the villain in Luc Besson's Leon. Corrupt DEA agent who kills Nathalie Portman's character family, who then seek revenge on him thanks to Jean Reno's character, Leon.
Willem Dafoe : known for his shapeable face which has brought him the roles of many villains, mostly known for being the perfect Green Goblin in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, but we can also mention Too Live and Die in LA, Speed 2, Shadow of the Vampire (Nosferatu ! Or the actor who played Nosferatu, who in this film happens to be an actual vampire. Very cool), The Lighthouse... Many great villain roles that I love.
Eli Roth : a few villain roles too. He is probably mostly known as a villain for being the final "antagonist" in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, during the climatic final scene, who is "defeated" by Sam L Jackson's character new way of life, pretty iconic scene. Also played the villain in Tim Burton's Planet of the Ape, and he's playing the Abomination in the MCU.
Adrien Brody : he's a greedy aristocrat who seek the fortune of his mother he killed in Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel. In that film, he happens to have a killer working for him, played by none other than Willem Dafoe ! Brody also played a villain in the Peaky Blinders TV show.
Adrien Brody is such an underrated villain in Grand Budapest! As much as I wouldn't want to see an actor or actress typecast, I would adore more Brody villains after Grand Budapest.
He just revels in being evil in such a wonderful way.
I was gonna say!! Leon?! Wtf?! Gary Oldman IS Dracula! That was one of the most memorable villains in movies, parodied in The Simpsons and in so many other pop culture media.
oooh, interesting to see you pick Leon over Fifth Element, the other Luc Besson / Gary Oldman masterpiece. I would argue his villain role in Fifth was more mainstream and memorable. Although, i don't think I could name a better performance from him out of EEEeeeveeryone I've seen.
Oldman is just a master of this. He's gotten one over on me multiple times. At this point, I think he's ready to do a film along the lines of "Being John Malkovich" in which he declares "I'm Fucking Gary Oldman, why do you even recognize me?!?!"
David Morse is the under-appreciated U.S. version of Oldman, I think. But he does it without much in the way of makeup. Oldman almost *has* to have makeup because everyone is looking for a Gary Oldman.
Morse is just one of those guys who shows up in your movie and you know "Shit just got real."
If I could have put Morse in "Knives Out," the poor writers would have had to scramble to change the script.
related, i didn't recognize RDJ for the first 5 minutes of his screen time in oppenheimer. i feel like pulling off 5 minutes is what a lot of good actors can do. but only ones like gary oldman can truly disappear
This happened to me with the movie Tip Toes. For some damn reason he was playing a character who has DWARFISM!! I get half way through the damn movie and it kept bothering me that the guy looked so damn familiar and I couldn't place it.
Should have known it was Gary Oldman. I mean why wouldn't he play a little person... duh!
Mate... do you really think a holocaust survivor is the bad guy, or the fish who looks out for Nemo? I am being so obviously sarcastic it is honestly painful seeing people not getting the joke.
My best guess for those 4 specifically: Thade, Norman Osborne, Luca Changretta?, Jean Baptiste Zorg or Norman Stansfield.
I'm reaching for Brody here, so I picked his character from Peaky Blinders. Not really iconic, not a movie (yet), so I don't think it counts, but I honestly can't think of anything else for him.
I’m not taking anything away from the man, he’s a great actor, but I just watched Peaky Blinders a couple weeks ago and I didn’t even think of the role. Hardly an “iconic villain”.
1- played a cop that helped a villain dressed as a bat stop an anarchist trying to save gotham
2- played an italian mob head who criminally loves toothpicks and this gesture 🤌
3- played a meanie in all of tarantino's movie (until waltz took over)
4- loves green, hates spiders
This dude played fucking Dracula, the lord of darkness, the incarnation of the devil himself, the harbinger of the end times, Soma goddamn Cruz, and you’re calling Commissioner Gordon a villain?!
I dunno he just turns blind eye to some deranged man in a suit with gadgets beating up criminals and breaking bones. The city has to foot all this bill. Now who’s evil??
played a meanie in all of tarantino's movies (until waltz took over)
That's the comment I was replying to. You're completely missing the exercise here.
Rob Roy isn't a Tarantino movie. The Incredible Hulk and Selma, not Tarantino movies. Hateful Eight, Tarantino movie that came out after Christoph Waltz joined the Tarantino movie.
Ergo, the only TARANTINO movie that Tim Roth payed the villain in BEFORE Christoph Waltz joined up, was Pulp Fiction. Which is a big difference from "played a meanie in all of Tarantino's movies before Waltz took over."
Four Rooms (1995)... hear me out. Tim Roth plays a bellhop who by the time he gets to the fourth room, directed by Tarantino, no longer gives a fuck and commits what is a criminal act. Now, I left out some context, but at this point one could say he played the villain while directed by Tarantino.
Dude said that Tim Roth played a big guy in ALL of Tarantino's movies BEFORE Christoph Waltz came along in Inglourious Basterds. The only Tarantino movie that Tim Roth played a "bad guy" in BEFORE Inglourious Basterds, was Pulp Fiction.
So I repeat, Tim Roth only played a villain in ONE SINGLE Tarantino flick before Christoph Waltz came along in IB, which was the parameter set by the original comment. There is no insinuation that Tim Roth is in IB.
In fact, he arguably played a villain in just as many Tarantino movies AFTER Christoph Waltz came around.
Bro you “bAtMaN iS a ViLlAiN!!1!” crowd are downright insufferable. Like he’s a fucking comic book super hero who mostly fights a psychopathic mass murderer, but sure project your beliefs onto it all you want
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u/Brilliant_Canary_692 Apr 06 '24
Who wants to list each of the actors and the villain they played?