I do remember, when I read Michael Chabon's Summerland, really loving the villain of the book--Coyote. What a personable bad guy.
I do remember, when I read Michael Chabon's Summerland, really loving the villain of the book--Coyote. What a personable bad guy.
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umm...maybe it's just me, but i LOVE the phantom from phantom of the opera and jud from oklahoma...except jud when he's drunk...
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I love Lord Henry from Oscar Wilde's "The picture of Dorian Gray", although I wouldn't clearly classify him as a villain. I had the honour to watch Robert Powell's performance, as well, and I was...simply, moved to tears by the power of his acting.
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Yes, Lord HenryOriginally Posted by amalia1985
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Definitely!!
I don't know that I really consider the Phantom (Erik) to be that much of a villain. I guess he is, in a way, but I think he is supposed to be more of a misunderstood man. Then those circumstances in life led him to behave the way that he had towards the people around him. I think it is that more than being a villain for the sake of being a villain. That is my opinon, at least.
Definitely!!
I don't know that I really consider the Phantom (Erik) to be that much of a villain. I guess he is, in a way, but I think he is supposed to be more of a misunderstood man. Then those circumstances in life led him to behave the way that he had towards the people around him. I think it is that more than being a villain for the sake of being a villain. That is my opinon, at least.
I totally agree with you. I think that in The Phantom of the Opera, somebody had to be the "bad guy" to say it plainly, and Eric was there. Personally, I always sympathised with him,seeing him as victim of prejudice.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
Definitely Hannibal Lector...oh, and Darth Vader
oh, he's so awesome in the new movie!
Shall these bones live?
I love Hannibal Lecter, but I don't see him as a villain.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
yeah, I guess the eating of human organs doesn't really count, really
Shall these bones live?
It depends on what you define as a villian. In most good fiction, there's not a clear distinction between a hero(or an anti-hero) and a villian. Anyway, I like Entreri from a few a Salvatore's novels; Aoshi from the Kenshin manga and anime; Dr.Doom from Marvel Comics; Riku from the Kingdom Hearts games; Odin from the Bard series; Apollo from Greek mythology(in some of the stories like with Eros or Orion); Kira from Deathnote; Sephiroth from FFVII; from batman, Hugo Strange, Ra's al Ghul, and Shiva; Blade from the Spiderman comics; Guts from Berserk; the main villian from Green Arrow comics; Selene from the Last of the Amazons; Sensui from Yu Yu Hakusho;Dr. Hannibal Lecter; the Saw villian; and quite a few others.
I have got to admit, I did find Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant) in Bridget Jones rather dashing... even though he was a total arsehole and basically goes against everything I stand for. Damn that blasted wet shirt!
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
Oh yes... Ive just started these and he is good , althou he did annoy me a bit.
But my all time favourite villlian of all is split between Iago, ( no not the bird
Oh who can foirget captain hook?
or well Ive lost it now I had someone else I was going to say:shrug:
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only a poet has the audacity to turn a taboo on its head and thereby expose our hypocrisy. that old men lust after young girls is as certain as night turns into day and vice versa. we like to think this isn't so going so far as to make draconian laws which can't possibly be applied to any purpose but to keep on the payroll people with an ax to grind or worse a religious fanatic bent on changing the world in his image. so i urge everyone in the strongest possible terms to avoid self righteous indignation for paranoia and hysteria does not become a gentleman, much less a lady.
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