re: Memorable villains

Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl.

Read the book, and had no idea how an actress could actually do that role. Then Rosamund owned it, completely.

Cold. Psychopathic. Calculated. Pure evil because she was simply bored.

And for anyone who has watched Turn






Both of these characters make me want to sail across the Atlantic and finish what the founding fathers started

Paul Newman played quite the dick of a character in this movie. Though to surprise of some the audiences of the time kind of liked him as a counter culture hero I guess

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Don't forget Sling Blade. He was great in that.

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He was. But you don't even know it's Dwight until the end of the 3rd act, because he's wearing a mask in Panic Room.

Somehow that makes his performance that much better. Because his evil is only through his delivery, not through his facial expressions.

Here's a twofer from one movie