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When looking for something to present a challenge to the hulking cyborg form of Arnold Schwarzenegger's original flavour Terminator, James Cameron conceived of something more complicated, even more driven and able to turn itself into almost anyone or anything, some laws of physics be damned. Robert Patrick was the man chosen to play the cunning metal killer, and left an impact that helped push Terminator 2 beyond the original in terms of popularity. Schwarzenegger's version might be famous for never stopping, but with Patrick's slinky shape-changer, you might never see him coming until it's too late. Sorry, Wolfie.
While Sauron is seen as the main villain of the Middle-earth movies, and Gollum can be viewed as a much more sympathetic character (especially as brought to life by Andy Serkis), there's something to be said for his relatively normal origins that gives Gollum the edge. Sauron, after all was evil to begin with, whereas Gollum became twisted by the power of the One Ring and became something almost more dangerous... something your pity could lower your guard down around. From the moment he comes into contact with the Ring, his mind is shattered and his initial impulse is murder. Go ahead and feel as sorry for him as you please... Just don't ever, ever trust him.
Appearing in a film series that also contains the likes of Palpatine and especially Darth Vader is enough to give anyone performance anxiety issues. But Kylo Ren, so well played by Adam Driver, has become so much more complicated than his initial, mocked emo baddie stance might have suggested. In just two short films, he's evolved into a driven, deadly character who knows his path and will do anything to achieve victory. Sure, Vader blew up planets, choked the living snot out of enemies and struck down Obi-Wan, but Kylo "Ben Solo" Ren murdered his own dad in cold blood.
From his comicbook roots as a maniac, through the campy incarnation brought to movie and TV screens by Cesar Romero, The Joker was always a figure of fun (shout out also to Mark Hamill's cartoon take). Tim Burton and Jack Nicholson found some darker shades in the 1989 big-screen re-invention, but it's not hard to argue that Chris Nolan and Heath Ledger found the perfect form for the character when he entered the more grounded film universe in The Dark Knight in 2008. Ledger's Joker is a thing of ugly beauty, a man who will do anything to achieve his aims and, to paraphrase the words of Michael Caine's Alfred, just wants to watch the world burn. Then, in Todd Phillips Joker, he got the chance to shine on his own, minus the Bat, and played here by Joaquin Phoenix to Oscar-winning effect.__
And so we come to the villain you voted as the best of all time. Darth Vader often appears at the top of these lists, as the character has had more of a lasting impact than the blast that took out Alderaan. Sure, the revelations of his younger years might not have helped the mythos, but it didn't hurt it either. A blend of tragic figure and evil presence, Vader's story takes all the great twists and turns, even ending in redemption with the help of Mark Hamill's Luke. With the looming presence of David Prowse and the booming voice of James Earl Jones, the big V stalks across the screen and inspires awe in every scene. He also wears a mean cape, which not many men can pull off.
(Oh, and in the spirit of generosity, let me advise you never, ever to bring this up among silent film fans as a serious topic. You will be ruthlessly mocked for your ignorance and you will deserve it.)
The gentlemen playing the villains in these films were Wallace Beery and Ford Sterling, respectively. However, both men were better known for their other comedic skills. This is not how they regularly spent Saturday night.
Snidely Whiplash is a send-up of Victorian melodrama villains, the same target that inspired the Sennett comedies. If he is based on a silent era character, it is likely one of these Sennett comedians.
In the films mentioned before, the victims were Gloria Swanson and Mabel Normand. I am going to repeat this one more time: These were comedies! The peril was meant to make fun of the over-the-top melodramas that had been in style a few years before.
In the 1916 serial A Lass of the Lumberlands the hero, Leo Maloney, is tied up and stumbles onto train tracks and then is rescued by Helen Holmes. Not exactly a perfect fit. Pearl White, to the best of my knowledge, was never victimized in this manner and any purported footage of this has yet to turn up. (The trope was used in the ridiculous sound remake of The Perils of Pauline.) Please note too that American serials were not regarded as the pinnacle of fine film writing.
In one of the few examples of this trope presented seriously in a mainstream silent feature film, the leading man of Blue Jeans (which I wrote an article about) was nearly sliced in half in a sawmill before being rescued by leading lady Viola Dana. Contemporary reviews praised the film but noted its old-fashioned source material. The train tracks/sawmill thing was just not something a modern film circa 1917 would use.
So now we know that the trope was rare, that men were just as likely to be victims and that the whole thing died before the twenties let out a single roar, well except for amateur films like this one:
Whenever someone thinks about silent cinema the image of the laughing villain, twirling his mustache, and tying the hapless blonde beauty to the railroad, pops up in our collective memory. But in which movie (or movies) did that particular image first appear?
The link in Neil Baker's comment to Luke McKernan's "Tied to the tracks" article also gives a very detailed history of a woman being tied to the tracks, occasionally by the evil villain twirling his moustache.
Luke traces it back to an 1867 staged melodrama by Augustin Daly called Under the Gaslight, where a woman saves a man from the tracks in the nick of time. Later plays copied this, and at some point it switched to a man saving a woman.
However films such as 1905's The Train Wreckers and 1911's The Attempt on the Special played it straight, where an unconscious woman is left on the tracks. But she was left there by a gang rather than the moustachioed villain.
The Victorian stage melodrama featured, six stock characters: the hero, the villain, the heroine, an aged parent, a sidekick and a servant of the aged parent engaged in a sensational plot featuring themes of love and murder. Often the good but not very clever hero is duped by a scheming villain, who has eyes on the damsel in distress until fate intervenes at the end to ensure the triumph of good over evil.
This made me think of an 1913 movie that Mack Sennett made called Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life. If I recall correctly, this film featured not only a mustachioed villain, but a woman tied to the train tracks!
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The presentation program was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special.[1]
The AFI defines a hero as "a character(s) who prevails in extreme circumstances and dramatizes a sense of morality, courage and purpose. Though they may be ambiguous or flawed, they often sacrifice themselves to show humanity at its best."[2]
The AFI defines a Villain as "a character(s) whose wickedness of mind, selfishness of character and will to power are sometimes masked by beauty and nobility, while others may rage unmasked. They can be horribly evil or grandiosely funny but are ultimately tragic."[2]
More than 40 years ago, film critic Roger Ebert claimed that "Each film is only as good as its villain." He might not have been the very first person to make this observation, but in any event, Ebert certainly knew what he was talking about when it came to film, and his statement here is a difficult one to dispute. Both before Ebert said this, and in the years since, plenty of films have become iconic largely because of their villains.
The lead antagonist gives the protagonist/heroes something to fight against, and will often be the primary source of a story's conflict. Conflict is always interesting, and so oftentimes, the better - or more compelling - the villain, the more emotional engagement a viewer will feel. This makes a great villain something that's always worth celebrating, with the villains below all being some of the best in film history, thanks to how evil, clever, persistent, or sometimes even understandable/tragic they are.
As far as villains from David Lynch movies go, few hold a candle to Frank Booth, portrayed by Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. This 1986 movie is a disturbing blend of mystery, thriller, and neo-noir genres, following the disquieting journey a young man goes on after he finds a severed ear in his otherwise quiet small town and decides to investigate who it belonged to and how it got severed.
Like many horror movie villains, Michael Myers made a remarkably strong first impression before revealing an apparent inability to stay dead. He first terrorized the population of Haddonfield, Illinois in 1978's Halloween after escaping from a mental hospital and going on a violent killing spree.
The plain uncanniness of his mask and the way he never speaks makes him a particularly eerie slasher movie villain, and then the fact he keeps coming back makes him all the more scary. He appears in most of the Halloween sequels, and was featured in one as recently as 2022, making him feel like an almost eternal horror movie boogeyman.
Training Day is an iconic crime/thriller movie starring Denzel Washington as a rogue detective named Alonzo Harris who takes a rookie cop (Ethan Hawke) under his wing for his first day on the job. Harris doesn't appear entirely villainous at first, but soon reveals some troubling behavior that makes him seem incredibly intimidating and dangerous.
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