Top Ten Tuesdays

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Movie heroes.

John McClane - Die Hard.
Tequila - Hard Boiled.
Captain America - All 3 Marvel flicks.
Van Helsing - Peter Cushing.
Captain Kronos.
Ellen Ripley.
One Armed Boxer - Jimmy Wang yu. One armed boxer & master of the flying guillotine.
Silence - great silence.
Ash Williams - Evil dead 2 & Army of Darkness.
John Matrix - commando.

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Movie Villains

Tigero - Great silence.
Frank Booth - Blue Velvet.
The Joker - Heath Ledger.
Anton Chigur - No Country for old men.
Kai - Tony Wong in the ebola syndrome.
Frank - once upon a time in the west.
Goldfinger - My favourite Bond villain.
Harry Lime - The Third man.
Col Kurtz - Apocalypse now.
Hannibal lecter - Silence of the Lambs. (Yes Brian Cox is great but I'm not stepping onto the hipster train, Hopkins really stole this role)

[bizarre_eye@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by keirarts

Movie Villains
Hannibal lecter - Silence of the Lambs. (Yes Brian Cox is great but I'm not stepping onto the hipster train, Hopkins really stole this role)

As much as I rate Manhunter, I thought Brian Cox was an awful Hannibal Lecter myself.

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Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

As much as I rate Manhunter, I thought Brian Cox was an awful Hannibal Lecter myself.

I thought he was good but I always thought the 'Cox was better' argument seemed to be made by people wanting to be a bit edgy.

[Rik]

Originally Posted by bizarre_eye@Cult Labs

As much as I rate Manhunter, I thought Brian Cox was an awful Hannibal Lecter myself.

So glad I’m not the only one that thinks this!

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Much as i like Cox as an actor. ANTHONY HOPKINS IS HANNIBAL LECTER!

[Rik]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Much as i like Cox as an actor. ANTHONY HOPKINS IS HANNIBAL LECTER!

Definitely

[Stephen@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs

Much as i like Cox as an actor. ANTHONY HOPKINS IS HANNIBAL LECTER!

Hopkins is the John Innman of Hannibal Lecters. More camp than scary. I honestly have no idea how he won an oscar for that awful performance.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

I also like Brian Cox's portrayal, but prefer Anthony Hopkins, finding the way he channelled Katharine Hepburn and HAL 9000 extremely creepy and sinister. Unlike in Manhunter, The Silence of the Lambs showed exactly what violent acts Lecter was capable of and the casual way he beats the police officer to death with a truncheon always surprises me in its brutality.

[Nosferatu@Cult Labs]

HEROES AND VILLAINS

Heroes

1. Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, To Kill a Mockingbird)
2. George Bailey (James Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life)
3. Jefferson Smith (James Stewart, Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
4. Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart, The Big Sleep)
5. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca)
6. The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin, City Lights)
7. Juror #8 (Henry Fonda, 12 Angry Men)
8. Father Karras and Father Merrin (Jason Miller and Max von Sydow, The Exorcist)
9. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terminator 2: Judgement Day)
10. Li Mu Bai (Chow Yun-Fat, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)

Villains

1. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins, Psycho)
2. Dr. Mabuse (Rudolf Klein-Rogge, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)
3. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore, It's a Wonderful Life)
4. Harry Lime (Orson Welles, The Third Man)
5. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino, The Godfather Part II)
6. Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman, Die Hard)
7. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro, Taxi Driver)
8. The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator)
9. Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs)
10. The Joker (Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight)