Who's your favourite bad guy

[SteveMcDonough]

I'd have to agree with sabreuse... Hannibal rocked.

What about Jack Nickolson in.... Everything.

heh

Penguin.. Feathers McGraw. yop.

[Rick]

Harvey Keitel in Bad Lietenant...
Christopher Walken in just about anyting...
Klaus Maria Brand--(whatever) in Never say never again...
Everybody in The Godfather...

[Clean Touch]

Originally posted by Julie:
It's the penguin in the Wallace and Gromit short "The Wrong Trousers". Those beady little eyes...just pure evil.

Or the 6-fingered man in "the Princess Bride" (especially in the book).

Oh, man! I completely forgot about them!

That penguin...when he left the music blaring for poor Grommit and THEN came home, I almost went ballistic over that creep! What a mean thing to do to such a sweet guy like Grommit!

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Est-ce que l'attaque bon? Mais Oui!!

[Sempër Pugno]

Gotta be Vizzini from the Princess Bride. Hes got a great logic system, and while he may not strike fear in the hearts of children, he does to philosophers everywhere.

Vizzini: So, it is down to you, and it is down to me...if you wish her dead, by
all means keep moving forward.
Man in black: Let me explain...
Vizzini: There's nothing to explain. You're trying to kidnap what I have
rightfully stolen.
Man in black: Perhaps an arrangement can be reached?
Vizzini: There will be no arrangements...and you're killing her.
Man in black: But if there can be no arrangement, then we are at an impasse.
Vizzini: I'm afraid so. I can't compete with you physically, and you're no
match for my brains.
Man in black: You're that smart?
Vizzini: Let me put it this way: Have you ever heard or Plato, Aristotle,
Socrates?
Man in black: Yes.
Vizzini: Morons!
Man in black: Really! In that case, I challenge you to a battle of wits.
Vizzini: For the princess? To the death? I accept!
Man in black: Good, then pour the wine. [Vizzini pours the wine] Inhale this
but do not touch.
Vizzini: [taking a vial from the man in black] I smell nothing.
Man in black: What you do not smell is Iocaine powder. It is odorless,
tasteless, and dissolves instantly in liquid and is among the more
deadly poisons known to man.
Vizzini: [shrugs with laughter] Hmmm.
Man in black: [turning his back, and adding the poison to one of the goblets]
Alright, where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends
when you decide and we both drink - and find out who is right, and who
is dead.
Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine it from what I know of
you. Are you the sort of man who would put the poison into his own
goblet or his enemies? Now, a clever man would put the poison into his
own goblet because he would know that only a great fool would reach for
what he was given. I am not a great fool so I can clearly not choose
the wine in front of you...But you must have known I was not a great
fool; you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the wine
in front of me.
Man in black: You've made your decision then?
Vizzini: [happily] Not remotely! Because Iocaine comes from Australia. As
everyone knows, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals. And
criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not
trusted by me. So, I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you.
Man in black: Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
Vizzini: Wait 'till I get going!! ...where was I?
Man in black: Australia.
Vizzini: Yes! Australia! And you must have suspected I would have known the
powder's origin,so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me.
Man in black: You're just stalling now.
Vizzini: You'd like to think that, wouldn't you! You've beaten my giant, which
means you're exceptionally strong...so you could have put the poison in
your own goblet trusting on your strength to save you, so I can clearly
not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my
Spaniard, which means you must have studied...and in studying you must
have learned that man is mortal so you would have put the poison as far
from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front
of me!

Man in black: You're trying to trick me into giving away something. It won't
work.
Vizzini: It has worked! You've given everything away! I know where the poison
is!
Man in black: Then make your choice.
Vizzini: I will, and I choose...[pointing behind the man in black] What in the
world can that be?
Man in black: [turning around, while Vizzini switches goblets] What?! Where?! I
don't see anything.
Vizzini: Oh, well, I...I could have sworn I saw something. No matter. [Vizzini
laughs]
Man in black: What's so funny?
Vizzini: I...I'll tell you in a minute. First, lets drink, me from my glass
and you from yours.

[They both drink]

Man in black: You guessed wrong.
Vizzini: You only think I guessed wrong! That's what's so funny! I switched
glasses when your back was turned! Ha ha, you fool!! You fell victim to
one of the classic blunders. The most famous is never get involved in a
land war in Asia; and only slightly less well known is this: Never go
in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!

[Vizzini continues to laugh hysterically. Suddenly, he stops and falls right
over. ]

Also, the Princess Bride has some great fencing in it.

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"The reason sabre fencer's can't hit below the belt is because it might cause brain damage" SEMPER PUGNABO GLADIUS! (If you can read that, you're smart.)

[SteveMcDonough]

Christ, Semp Dude!

You memorised that, or what?


That quote was from the Fencingsucks.com site, wasn't it? (Below the belt.... )

[veeco]

In the movies, the Cardinal of Richelieu from the Three Musketeers.

In fencing, it's definitely the Italians. I just love their style when they are whinning to the ref when the calls don't get their way.



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[davidwating_64]

the hammer head shark/bad thing from pitch black they were awsome. and the guy with the mirrored eyes

[Shadow Fencer]

Alan Rickman in the movie Robin Hood and the first Die Hard.

Just finished reading James Clavell's Gai Gin- long book- over 1000 pages! The bad guy in that story would be the warriors called "shishi". Very vicious types!

Jade Fox in Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon or is it Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger.. can never seem to get it straight even though I see its the topic of one of the threads!

[Fleche]

In the Princess Bride, the most evil character would have to be Prince Humperdink. He is mean and evil, and he's annoying! What more could a bad guy be?

*Humperdink sniffs the small flask left by the man in black. "Iocaine, I'd bet my life on it"*

[Foil Girl]

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I'd hafta dissagree on that one. The princess in that movie was a good bad guy... You were never sure whether she WAS a good guy or bad guy.

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-Foil Girl
"If you don't have fun, you've already lost"

[sabreuse]

OK Foil Girl,

Lucky for you I've already seen this movie so I don't have to come over there. That was pretty close to a spoiler. Since this is such a new movie, try to be considerate of the people who haven't seen it yet.

[Purple Fencer]

Back to the Daleks for a moment...always remember:

Real Daleks don't climb stairs...they level the building!


Move, move....you will obey!

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Sam Signorelli -- I'll be mellow when I'm
DEAD!

[FencerInUS]

Connicus (SP?) the Emperor from Gladiator. Nore good sword fighting I might add

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F.I.US.
Parry, THEN riposte
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[neevel]

Commodus. The Commodus of the film was (surprise) a fictionalized character loosely based on the real Commodus, as were just about all of the 'historical' charaters from the film-- no, Marcus Aurelius was not a closet republican. He always intended Commodus to succeed him, and in fact made Commodus 'co-emperor' three years before his own death. Commodus started out alright, but eventually became even loopier than the film character-- he liked to dress up as Hercules, and did fight in rigged gladiatorial contests. He also started re-naming everything in sight (the months of the year, the legions, the Roman people, etc.) after himself. Eventually his opponents (including his own mistress) hired an assasin who strangled him as he was taking a bath.

Doesn't change the fact that I enjoyed the film-- after all, the minute you start condemning drama for historical inaccuracy you have to throw out Shakespeare and much of the Classics, as well.

-Dave

[weezelbit]

I have to go with what I'm reading now. There are so many great bad guys listed here, I will just add on that rascal you hate to love: Flashman.

I just finished the first book in the series (hubby and I are taking turns with Flashman and Sharpe - they set each other off so nicely) and I almost found myself cheering for the guy

[RC]

Read George RR Martin's books, "A Game of Thrones", "A Clash of Kings" and "A Storm of Swords". There's evil characters in there that will twist your dreams and make you cry for your lost innocence.

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"Etes-vous prets?"
"Oui!"

[Foil Girl]

::runs and hides behind her chair, meek voice:: Sorry! No spoilers intended!

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-Foil Girl
"If you don't have fun, you've already lost"

[mangofever]

i feel bad writing this, but the whole scene you described about the switching the wine goblets has been done before, i don't remember where, but i seem to recall the same scene in an earlier movie. the coup d'grace(leave my spelling alone, you should hear my friends spanish...)in the other movie was that .... the guy who sneered and said: yeah, but i switched it when your back was turned, etc etc, gets the poison, you know why? because the other guy put the poison in da otta glass to begin wid, ya see, never argue wid a sicilain (we know, we been poisoning people since the borgia's)but my favorite bad guy of all times is the guy in the 007 movies who had a steel jaw, look at him again, he was like the terminator with metal teeth, what was his name? i forgot

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[Gav]

Mangofever his name was Jaws!

What's Mangofever by the way?

[arcon]

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