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There is an opinion that most actors are much more willing to play a negative character on the stage or in a movie than a hero “without fear and reproach”. And this is quite understandable, because the role of a scoundrel to a greater extent allows the artist to reveal his acting potential and make the role bright and memorable.
In the history of world cinema, it is not uncommon for an actor or actress to become so accustomed to the image of a screen villain that the majority of viewers, when watching a picture, begin to experience sharply negative emotions in his direction, which sometimes extend to the performer of the role himself.
Undoubtedly, in order to achieve such a realistic character, you need to have talent and do painstaking work.
Here are the 10 most hated screen villains.
10 Norman Stansfield, “Leon”
This corruption-ridden police officer who heads the drug department. With his psychopathic composure when committing terrible deeds, he is able to strike chilling terror into the hearts of his opponents.
This monster does not just remove obstacles on the way to its goal, but takes a sophisticated pleasure from the murders committed. Inhuman cynicism and sadistic tendencies are Stansfield’s main allies.
Killing an entire family is a piece of cake for him. All this puts him on a par with the most disgusting negative characters in the history of world cinema.
9. Annie Wilks, Misery
She looks like a good-natured 44-year-old woman who lives alone in a house far from the urban settlement. She has no family, so her main occupation is working as a nurse and reading novels written by a famous writer named Paul Sheldon.
However, her fanatical love for literature has morbid forms and is becoming more and more like a real obsession.
In order to achieve undivided possession of her beloved writer, she is ready to do anything: cripple him so that his beloved cannot leave her house, or kill witnesses who can help Sheldon escape from an abnormal admirer …
8. Zorg, “The Fifth Element”
This character, which does not have a single positive quality (except for the natural charm of Harry Oldman, who played this role), is hated by all fans of the cult painting by Luc Besson.
He puts all his strength and means at his disposal so that the earth is swallowed up by absolute evil, destroying all life.
The combination of incredible composure when doing terrible things and spontaneous fits of rage makes this charismatic on-screen villain incredibly repulsive.
7. T-1000, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”
Probably many of us, when watching this legendary film about the rise of the machines, the whole film was intensely looking forward to this sweet moment when the liquid terminator turns into a puddle with a metallic tint and no longer manages to collect drop by drop.
The performer of the role of the T-1000 managed to recreate on the screen the absolute emotionlessness of a soulless machine, ready to kill anyone who gets in its way…
6. Hans Gruber, Die Hard
This resourceful German had a lively mind, strong nerves, good manners and a very ironic attitude towards American pop music.
He was the main on-screen opponent of the inimitable John McLane, played by Bruce Willis, so he could not become a favorite of the audience in advance.
His fanatical ideas and pathological craving for violence made Gruber one of the most famous, and at the same time, hotly hated by fans of the cult “Die Hard” movie villain.
5. Norman Bates, “Psycho”
The death of his father, which Norman experienced at an early age, became a difficult test for him and left an indelible imprint on his psyche. He became unsociable and could feel safe only in the company of his mother.
When she finally decided to take up her personal life, Norman, overcome by obsessive psychosis, poisoned his mother and her lover. At the same time, not finding the strength to come to terms with the death of his mother, he dries up and decides to mummify her body.
Very soon, Norman began to talk to the corpse of his mother, moreover, he also dressed and imitated his feeding. As a result of all this madness, the mummy began to absorb the personality of Bates.
Now he really began to turn into his mother on a psychological level. Psychiatrists classify this phenomenon as a split personality. Now he poses a great danger to others, because his “motherly” side was distinguished by great cruelty.
4. Agent Smith, The Matrix
Agent Smith is nothing more than a computer program, or an autonomous agent module designed to protect the Matrix. His haughty irony towards Neo and outrageous self-confidence cause a persistent feeling of disgust in most viewers.
3. Darth Vader, Star Wars
This is one of the central characters of the first 6 episodes of Star Wars. This villain has become a reference screen villain.
His appearance has become one of the often parodied. What is the reason for such popularity of this scoundrel of cosmic proportions? This question should be addressed to millions of fans of the cult space epic movie.
2. John Doe, “Seven”
John Doe decided that he was the conductor of God’s will on Earth, the field of which, with devilish sophistication, he began to carry out his sinister plan to remake the world.
Doe committed several horrific murders of sinners, who, in his opinion, personified each of the 7 vices (Gluttony, Greed, Idleness, Pride, Lust, Envy and Wrath).
He did not even feel sorry for himself, on the way to the triumph of universal justice, having carried out a kind of suicide for the envy shown to the main character.
1. Joffrey Baratheon, Game of Thrones
This character had a bad character, having inherited the worst traits of his parents: he was spoiled, capricious, proud, cowardly, cruel, deceitful, among other things, he had sadistic inclinations.
He always wanted to be like an official father, but for this he really lacked kindness and nobility.