Five Most Memorable Movie Bad Guys

I like movie bad guys, they can really make or break a movie. I am not going to list Darth Vader, or Sauron, or Voldemort, or any of the obvious choices. I am going for those with a little more quirky flair.

5. Hans Gruber, Played by Alan Rickman in ""Die Hard and the Sheriff of Nottingham from "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves." I decided to give a tie for this spot to two characters especially since both or these characters were played by the same actor. His character in Robin Hood is an excellent combination of cruel and evil, yet scared and whiney, a perfect portrayol of this particular character. In Die Hard is gives an iconic eighties performance in an iconic movie. Plus he is named for a character from "Our Man Flint" which is funny to me.

4. David Lo Pan,played by James Hong in "Big Trouble In Little China"
This movie is perhaps my favorite movie of all time. Its not the best movie I have ever seen, but it is still my favorite nonetheless. David Lo Pan is an ancient shriveled old man, EXTREMELY ancient and shriveled, who turns into an incorporeal seven foot tall unstoppable mound of magic. He is actually more terrfying as a shriveled old man than he is as a big ass magician.

3. Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg played by Gary Oldman in “The Fifth Element." Has there ever been a quirkier villian? Gentile southern accent in an evil corporate president that wears a plastic plate on his head and walks with a limp. His performance of this character is hilarious and although a bit campy, it fits the tone of the movie perfectly.

2. The Joker played by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight." Honestly its just the joker in general, not just the Ledger Joker. The joker is a great combination of funny, honest, and completely terrifying. You know when you see him on stage that he is completely insane and that even his brief moments of kindness are scary as hell. Ledger brings the most visceral and real life version of this character that there has ever been.

1. Cruela DeVille from "101 Dalmations." When I saw this movie in theater as a very young child, the fact that she was after the puppies to make a coat out of them AND was actually wearing a puppy skin coat absolutely scared the hell out of me. Not only that her demeanor with the skunk hair and the cigarette holder just add to the menace. To this day I can't see someone using a cigarette holder without instinctively thinking that they are evil.