Best Movie Villains0

When it comes to movie vil­lains, it becomes a love-hate thing; they are either the ones who we either hate to love or love to hate. Though the pro­tag­o­nist or the hero may appear charis­matic, the vil­lains are the ones that make the movie inter­est­ing. They make our heart go pit-a-pat as they bat­tle with the hero, or makes us as an audi­ence antic­i­pate what on earth they are plan­ning to do next. They can be the dark­est and mean­est char­ac­ter that we can ever pos­si­bly think of. Some of them may con­tinue to haunt us after leav­ing the movie the­ater, or even in our dreams! In fact, some­times, even the best or mem­o­rable dia­logues in movies are from the vil­lains them­selves. “Keep your friends close, but your ene­mies closer” by Michael Corleone from The Godfather Part II, the famous “I’ll be back” by the Terminator and “Only after dis­as­ter can we be res­ur­rected” by Tyler Durden from Fight Club are just some of them. So, just who are the best vil­lains? Hear our very own SGNewWave mem­bers share their opinions! Ou Yang Feng (Eagle Shooting Heroes) We’ve always seen Tony Leung Chiu Wai as the suave and charm­ing guy who take on sen­ti­men­tal and chival­rous roles…is there one time we remem­ber him play­ing the bad guy? Yes, that’s him as the bad­die Ou Yang Feng from Eagle Shooting Heroes, a par­ody of Louis Cha’s mar­tial arts novel. Tony plays a vil­lain who wants to usurps everyone’s power and become the invin­ci­ble one in the mar­tial arts realm. He also owns one of the most ridicu­lous skill him­self — the Toad Style Technique where he lit­er­ally acts like a frog each time he does the attack. He plots to kill and doesn’t really love his lover, only using her to help him suc­ceed his goal. Nonetheless, a charm­ing bad­die beneath the mous­tache. – Winnie Tan Lay Hian Chucky (Child’s Play) My best movie vil­lain? None other than…CHUCKY from the 1988 movie, Child’s Play. The freaki­est, mean­est, hor­rific doll that ever existed! His husky voice, the scar on the face and the nasty grin are enough to send a chill run­ning down my spine. After watch­ing Child’s Play when I was younger, I still remem­ber how this char­ac­ter has impacted me so much – I became so afraid of dolls. Remember those baby dolls which can open and close its eyes depend­ing on the way you hold it? Well, I used to sleep with them, but then, I start hav­ing imag­i­na­tions that this doll will try to kill me when I sleep. Because every time I woke up, I real­ize that the doll will be in a dif­fer­ent posi­tion. I ditched away that doll with no regrets, but still, Chucky con­tin­ues to haunt my mind. “Hi, I’m Chucky, and I’m your friend till the end. Hidey-ho!” *shiv­ers* – Nurul Ain Muzlan Tom Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley) Movies, are usu­ally com­pletely ide­al­is­tic. The good guy gets the girl and defeats the bad guy. However, Mr Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) from The Talented Mr. Ripley is the sort of vil­lain that wins at the end. He kills and gets away with it. However, what is truly most har­row­ing about the char­ac­ter is the method he employs. Firstly, he is intro­duced to the lav­ish and deca­dent lifestyles of the Greenleafs, and he falls in love with that lifestyle, and the charm­ing Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). In pur­suit of the dream life, he then mur­ders Dickie and steals Dickie’s iden­tity then lives Dickie’s wealthy life by build­ing up a web of deceit and expert forgery. He then mur­ders more peo­ple to pro­tect him­self and to keep the iden­tity he stole. When the cha­rade is finally up, his bril­liantly orches­trated crime is com­pletely obliv­i­ous to the Police and Greenleaf’s father. The lat­ter even gives him a sum of money. Excellent crime, but Tom is not spared of the con­se­quences.  The extent of the deprav­ity of his mind and morals caught up with him and he con­tin­ues to mur­der peo­ple in the par­a­lyz­ing fear of being found out of his wrongs. In the end, he has truly become a beast, and by all means a true vil­lain even to him­self. – Rachel Chong Joker (Batman) The Joker. When played by Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger. He’s been tor­ment­ing Batman for a whole half cen­tury and is rec­og­nized as one of the most promi­nent bad-guy fig­ures. The Joker is a sadis­tic lunatic bent on noth­ing more than vin­dic­tive mal­ice, sure he gets caught every once in a while by Batman, but he always seems to find a way back out and onto the streets of Gotham. – Winona Hwang John Doe (Se7en) Despite not see­ing him killing any­one in the film, his vic­tim usu­ally die in grue­some meth­ods that are linked to the Seven Deadly Sins. An obese man who dies by force feed­ing, an attor­ney who dies bled to death by cut­ting off a pound of his meat, a street thug who got his hand cut off, tongue chewed off and rot­ting like a zom­bie yet weirdly alive, a pros­ti­tute who got killed by hav­ing sex with a man who is forced to wear a strap-on with a blade at its tip and many more grue­some killing meth­ods. He is so sick that he cut off the fin­ger­prints at the tip of the fin­gers so he leaves no clues behind for the detec­tives, yet at the same time let­ting them use uncon­ven­tional means to find him in a well devised plot to ful­fill his cycle of seven killings. – Fong Chan Teng Have you ever seen a movie where you think the bad guy’s action is jus­ti­fi­able? No? Meet John Doe. Nothing much is known about this guy except that he is sick of peo­ple com­mit­ting sins on a daily basis. So, he starts killing peo­ple who com­mit sins such as Sloth, Greed, Pride, Envy, Wrath, Gluttony and Lust. His weapons of choice vary from the usual knife to wait for it… spaghetti meals. Appearing for less than an hour, you may think this guy is over­re­act­ing and look­ing for atten­tion but his last move will make you pause and rewind your DVD again while you gaze at your TV screen in dis­be­lief. – Muhammad Afiq Jaafar Anton Chigurh ( No Country For Old Men) I was torn between him and Keyser Soze (Kevin Spacey) in The Usual Suspects, but I just went with him as he was much more creepy and… unpre­dictable. Javier Bardem just oozes cold­ness and creepi­ness in the way he talks and kills. He main­tains ten­sion through­out the whole film, being a calm and cal­cu­lated mur­derer. The scene where he con­fronts a shop­keeper is out­stand­ing. Give you the chill. Anton Chigurh IS the best vil­lain. – Foong Yan Qiu Mrs Ganush (Drag Me to Hell) The most evil vil­lain I can think of is Mrs. Ganush from the movie “Drag Me To Hell”. I was so trau­ma­tized by her scary look until I could not sleep for the whole night after watch­ing the movie! Just because Christine Brown never approves her exten­sion on her mort­gage pay­ment, she cursed her?! Mrs. Ganush even pulled Christine Brown’s hair when she was already dead! – Serene Tang