Posts from etsija in thread „Best Villain Western Or Non Western“

Quote from H.sanada

I think viilain has two meaning,good bad guy and bad bad guy?

I don't count "good bad guys" as villains, in the sense of Duke in eg Stagecoach, Angel and Badman and Three godfathers is an outlaw, but he's still the "good guy". Much more so, than Duvall's sympathic, but neverthless bad guy in True grit. Duke's characters in eg The Searchers, Red River or Wake of the Red Witch are not good or bad, they're troubled and confused.
I counted one "bad good guy" as a villain, Gene Hackman's sheriff in Unforgiven, there are not many film characters I'd hate more

In the order first ones to come into mind

Henry Fonda in Once upon a time in the West
Klaus Kinski in Aguirre or The Great silence
Bruce Dern in The Cowboys
Robert Duvall in True grit
Lee Marvin in Liberty Valance
Buster Keaton in Le Roi des Champs Elysees
David Bowie in Il mio West aka The Gunslinger
Lee van Cleef in The Good, the bad and in ugly
Emil Jannings as Mephisto in Faust
Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator
Gene Hackman in Unforgiven
Anthony Hopkins in Silence of lambs
Kenneth McMillen as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen in Dune
Imelda Staunton as Dolores Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix