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Fat Bastard
Bastard by name, utter bastard by nature. A belching, botty-burping man-mountain constructed entirely from layers of fat. The role even exerted its power over Mike Myers himself, according to co-star Heather Graham...
âI think some other presence took over him when he was Fat Bastard,â she told Total Film âThe next day he was always like, âIâm sorry, please donât hate me!'â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Admitting to his favourite food, Fatso comes clean. âI ate a baby! Oh aye, baby. The other, other white meat.â
âI think some other presence took over him when he was Fat Bastard,â she told Total Film âThe next day he was always like, âIâm sorry, please donât hate me!'â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Admitting to his favourite food, Fatso comes clean. âI ate a baby! Oh aye, baby. The other, other white meat.â
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Sean Nokes
Sleepers (1996)
âI felt he just had to be despicable,â says Bacon of the sadistic borstal guard, a man who tortures and molests without remorse. No kidding, Kev.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Perhaps the most harrowing of all Nokesâ cruelties is the first. âWhat do you want?â pleads the frightened boy as he shivers in the darkness. Nokes just stares at him impassively. âA blow job. Down on your kneesâŚâ
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Perhaps the most harrowing of all Nokesâ cruelties is the first. âWhat do you want?â pleads the frightened boy as he shivers in the darkness. Nokes just stares at him impassively. âA blow job. Down on your kneesâŚâ
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Ace Merrill
Stand by Me (1986)
Small-town bully who likes to shoot pool, play mailbox baseball and race cars. Oh, and beat up on little kids. Rules his own late-teen gang with a rod of iron.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Swiping Gordieâs (Wil Wheaton) Yankee cap off his 12-year-old head. âCâmon, man, my brother gave me that!â pleads Gordie, referring to his beloved older bro (John Cusack) who recently died in a jeep crash. âAnd now youâre giving it to me..." comes the ice-cold reply.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Swiping Gordieâs (Wil Wheaton) Yankee cap off his 12-year-old head. âCâmon, man, my brother gave me that!â pleads Gordie, referring to his beloved older bro (John Cusack) who recently died in a jeep crash. âAnd now youâre giving it to me..." comes the ice-cold reply.
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Lt. Thaddeus Harris
Police Academy (1984)
If the movies teach us anything, itâs that short men in uniforms are seldom chirpy, happy fellas. So it is with Lieutenant Harris, the nasty, bastardly piece of work determined to drive Steve Guttenberg out of the titular cop school.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Introducing himself and Sgt. Callahan (Leslie Easterbeck) to the motley recruits:
âWe are the meanest instructors here. Weâve got you because you are the worst people here. From now on you are D Squad: âDâ for âdirtbagsâ. Iâm gonna make you hate me for the rest of your lives!â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Introducing himself and Sgt. Callahan (Leslie Easterbeck) to the motley recruits:
âWe are the meanest instructors here. Weâve got you because you are the worst people here. From now on you are D Squad: âDâ for âdirtbagsâ. Iâm gonna make you hate me for the rest of your lives!â
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Alonzo Harris
Training Day (2001)
Gobshiteing, double-crossing drug peddler with a badge. Harris is a dirty cop whoâs hawked his morals on a street corner and got a damn good price for them.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Leaving rookie Officer Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) a mile up Shit Creek in the ghetto. While cop-hating hoodlums prepare to redecorate their bathroom with Hoytâs brains, Harris is back home counting his loot and boffing the missus.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Leaving rookie Officer Hoyt (Ethan Hawke) a mile up Shit Creek in the ghetto. While cop-hating hoodlums prepare to redecorate their bathroom with Hoytâs brains, Harris is back home counting his loot and boffing the missus.
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Withnail
"All he ever did was booze and rant,â says writer/director Bruce Robinson of his Withnail-inspiring friend Vivian McKerrell. To every stranger he encounters, Withnailâs a shit: a cocktail of superiority and self-loathing.
But the viewer, like Paul McCannâs âIâ, knows he lacks true callousness, which makes his comeuppance â left alone in the rain, soliloquising Shakespeare to the wolves â so desperately sad.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Lording it over the startled pensioners in the Penrith Tea Rooms... "We'll buy this place! We'll buy this place and install a fucking jukebox - liven all you stiffs up a bit!â
But the viewer, like Paul McCannâs âIâ, knows he lacks true callousness, which makes his comeuppance â left alone in the rain, soliloquising Shakespeare to the wolves â so desperately sad.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Lording it over the startled pensioners in the Penrith Tea Rooms... "We'll buy this place! We'll buy this place and install a fucking jukebox - liven all you stiffs up a bit!â
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Ed Rooney
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
If Ferris (Matthew Broderick) is the poster boy for free-living youth, then the small-minded Rooney is his bastardly opposite. Petty, smarmy, obsessive⌠Rooney is all these things.
Ferris can thank the God of cheeky loafers that Rooney's just too thick to ever nab him.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: âFifteen years from now, when he looks back on the ruin his lifeâs become, heâs going to remember Edward Rooney,â hisses Rooney as he plans to destroy Ferris for taking a day off school. Get some perspective, man!
Ferris can thank the God of cheeky loafers that Rooney's just too thick to ever nab him.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: âFifteen years from now, when he looks back on the ruin his lifeâs become, heâs going to remember Edward Rooney,â hisses Rooney as he plans to destroy Ferris for taking a day off school. Get some perspective, man!
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Griffin Mill
Paranoia is the emotion that drives this amoral, back-stabbing Hollywood executive.
Heâs the studioâs wonder boy, but he thinks heâs on the way out - his curdled fear fuelled by threatening postcards from an anonymous screen hack whose calls he didnât return.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Tracking down the writer he reasons is behind the postcards at an arthouse cinema, Griffin accidentally kills him in the parking lot. Then he goes out and bags his victimâs sexy girlfriend. Yuk.
Heâs the studioâs wonder boy, but he thinks heâs on the way out - his curdled fear fuelled by threatening postcards from an anonymous screen hack whose calls he didnât return.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Tracking down the writer he reasons is behind the postcards at an arthouse cinema, Griffin accidentally kills him in the parking lot. Then he goes out and bags his victimâs sexy girlfriend. Yuk.
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Jack Lint
Brazil (1985)
âI think the scariest evil people are also the nicest,â says director Terry Gilliam of Jack Lint, Brazilâs immaculately suited career torturer. âI thought Mike was perfect because heâs the nicest person I know.â
Too true â Palin twinkles with malice as the ever-beaming Lint, his effusive friendliness never quite masking a propensity for ambitious spine-shivving.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Smilingly ditching his lifelong chum, Sam (Johnathan Pryce) during his hour of direst need...
âWeâve always been good friends, havenât we, Sam?â he smiles. âWell, until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from meâŚ
Too true â Palin twinkles with malice as the ever-beaming Lint, his effusive friendliness never quite masking a propensity for ambitious spine-shivving.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Smilingly ditching his lifelong chum, Sam (Johnathan Pryce) during his hour of direst need...
âWeâve always been good friends, havenât we, Sam?â he smiles. âWell, until this whole thing blows over, just stay away from meâŚ
Misogynism personified, Mackey is a pumped âup, preening sex guru who teaches his disciples to âRespect the cock and tame the cunt.â
His bastardy isnât just limited to women, though. Visiting the home of his dying dad, he reels from nurse Philip Seymour Hoffman's pets, proclaiming, âI will drop-kick those fuckinâ dogs if they come near me!â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Sweating mid-seminar, TJ explains to a blubbering audience member that his best friend Denise is to be laid, not trusted:
âDo you think sheâll be there when things go bad? Huh? When things go wrong? You think again. Fucking Denise. Denise the piece. Oh, youâre gonna give me that cherry pie, sweet mama baby!"
His bastardy isnât just limited to women, though. Visiting the home of his dying dad, he reels from nurse Philip Seymour Hoffman's pets, proclaiming, âI will drop-kick those fuckinâ dogs if they come near me!â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Sweating mid-seminar, TJ explains to a blubbering audience member that his best friend Denise is to be laid, not trusted:
âDo you think sheâll be there when things go bad? Huh? When things go wrong? You think again. Fucking Denise. Denise the piece. Oh, youâre gonna give me that cherry pie, sweet mama baby!"
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Biff Tanen
Back to the Future (1985)
Biff is a moron from a long line of morons, whose history of bullying is as integral to his Hill Valley home as the lightning-scorched clock tower.
The ultimate dumb jock with a pack of giggling loons to back him up, his twin passions are constant misquoting (âMake like a tree and get outta here!â) and torturing George McFly (Crispin Glover).
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Forcing his idea of âromanceâ on George-crush Lorraine (Lea Thompson)... before a sucker-punch from the lanky McFly floors him.
The ultimate dumb jock with a pack of giggling loons to back him up, his twin passions are constant misquoting (âMake like a tree and get outta here!â) and torturing George McFly (Crispin Glover).
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Forcing his idea of âromanceâ on George-crush Lorraine (Lea Thompson)... before a sucker-punch from the lanky McFly floors him.
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Sam Stone
Ruthless People (1986)
Seized by passionate loathing for the rich harridan heâs married to (Bette Midler), Spandex mini-skirt king Sam Stone plots evil murder schemes with his busty mistress Carol (Anita Morris)
The mercenary vulgarian canât believe his luck when Mrs Stone is kidnapped by a pair of bumbling idiots.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Refusing to cough up the ransom, Stone gleefully challenges the kidnappers to silence the wife forever. But when the dwarfish slime-merchant finds himself accused of faking her kidnapping, he tries to ransom her back â at a discount.
The mercenary vulgarian canât believe his luck when Mrs Stone is kidnapped by a pair of bumbling idiots.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Refusing to cough up the ransom, Stone gleefully challenges the kidnappers to silence the wife forever. But when the dwarfish slime-merchant finds himself accused of faking her kidnapping, he tries to ransom her back â at a discount.
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Blake
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
âYou hear me, you fucking faggots?â sneers sales hotshot Blake at the cowering estate agents heâs been sent to light a fire under.
Pacing the office like a menacing hyena facing a whimpering bundle of newborn lions, and grinding the salesmenâs noses in their pathetic loserdom, the over-testosteroned bully issues an ultimatum: a new sales incentive will dole out the prizes.
Winner gets a Cadillac, the runner-up some steak knives. âThird prize is... youâre fired.â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: When Shelly Levene (Jack Lemmon) gets up to refill his mug, Blake barks a donât-fuck-with-me order at the sad-sack salesman... âPut! That coffee! Down! Coffeeâs for closers only!â
Pacing the office like a menacing hyena facing a whimpering bundle of newborn lions, and grinding the salesmenâs noses in their pathetic loserdom, the over-testosteroned bully issues an ultimatum: a new sales incentive will dole out the prizes.
Winner gets a Cadillac, the runner-up some steak knives. âThird prize is... youâre fired.â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: When Shelly Levene (Jack Lemmon) gets up to refill his mug, Blake barks a donât-fuck-with-me order at the sad-sack salesman... âPut! That coffee! Down! Coffeeâs for closers only!â
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Mortimer & Randolph Duke
Trading Places (1983)
Two bastards for the price of one. Playing God with other peopleâs existences is bad enough (turning a rich guy into a poor one, and vice versa), but doing it just for a dollar bet is rubbing the annual produce of a salt mine in the gaping wound.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: After making Billy Ray (Eddie Murphy) into a successful businessman, the incredibly rich brothers settle their bet and wonder whether or not to keep him on. They decide not:
âDo you honestly believe Iâd have a nigger run our family business?â Randolph asks his brother. âNo, neither would I,â replies Mortimer.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: After making Billy Ray (Eddie Murphy) into a successful businessman, the incredibly rich brothers settle their bet and wonder whether or not to keep him on. They decide not:
âDo you honestly believe Iâd have a nigger run our family business?â Randolph asks his brother. âNo, neither would I,â replies Mortimer.
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Cesar Soubeyran
Youâll struggle to find a more damning distillation of human greed than this crusty Gallic swine. Donât be fooled by the Stella Artois soundtrack. Heâs a proper bar-steward.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Refusing to loan Jean (Gerard Depardieu) his mule when the drought hits, Soubeyran condemns the hunchback to weeks of futile toil that destroys his land, his hope and, finally, his life. Itâs murder by proxy.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Refusing to loan Jean (Gerard Depardieu) his mule when the drought hits, Soubeyran condemns the hunchback to weeks of futile toil that destroys his land, his hope and, finally, his life. Itâs murder by proxy.
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Ron Anderson
âThereâs no more fun to be derived playing a complete shit,â admits Rowan Atkinson. And fun Rowan has â as Anderson, he excels at tormenting hapless straight man Dexter (Jeff Goldblum).
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Seeing Dexterâs having a bad day, Ron asks him if somethingâs troubling him. Dexter admits there is...
âThen for fuckâs sake talk to someone about it, will you?â sneers Anderson. âAnd sort it out before I hire a lobotomised monkey to play your role.â
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Seeing Dexterâs having a bad day, Ron asks him if somethingâs troubling him. Dexter admits there is...
âThen for fuckâs sake talk to someone about it, will you?â sneers Anderson. âAnd sort it out before I hire a lobotomised monkey to play your role.â
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Carter Burke
Aliens (1986)
Ah, the Yuppie. No.1 bastard stereotype of the â80s â and, according to Aliens writer/director James Cameron, of the late 22nd Century too. And what a fine example of Yuppiedom Burke is - smarmy, slimy, puts profits first, people second..
An entire colony of people in fact, after he knowingly exposes the inhabitants of LV-426 to a nest of Xenomorphs, just so he can bag the rights to a whole new breed of bio-weapon.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Locking bug-hunter Riply (Sigourney Weaver) and cute kiddie Newt (Carrie Henn) in a room with a pair of spindly face-huggers â all so he can smuggle a pair of gestating baby aliens back to Earth.
An entire colony of people in fact, after he knowingly exposes the inhabitants of LV-426 to a nest of Xenomorphs, just so he can bag the rights to a whole new breed of bio-weapon.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Locking bug-hunter Riply (Sigourney Weaver) and cute kiddie Newt (Carrie Henn) in a room with a pair of spindly face-huggers â all so he can smuggle a pair of gestating baby aliens back to Earth.
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. Mr. Creosote
The Meaning of Life (1983)
This lumbering, chundering man-mammoth doesnât have much screen-time to convey his immense spitefulness. But a prosthetics-slathered Terry Jones only needs a few minutes of profane grunting and indiscriminate spewing to make it clear that Creosote is the original Fat Bastard.
He does have a heart (we actually see it after a deadly âwaffer-theen-mintâ gutsplosion), but itâs buried beneath too many sweaty folds of blubber to be of any use.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: As if coating a posh restaurant in vomit wasnât enough, Creosote aims a sport of hot-stomach-chunks at the cleaning lady scrubbing the floor next to his table.
He does have a heart (we actually see it after a deadly âwaffer-theen-mintâ gutsplosion), but itâs buried beneath too many sweaty folds of blubber to be of any use.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: As if coating a posh restaurant in vomit wasnât enough, Creosote aims a sport of hot-stomach-chunks at the cleaning lady scrubbing the floor next to his table.
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Hank Evans
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Mental-illness lobby groups were predictably indignant at the Farrely brothersâ decision to spin a split-personality disorder into a slapstick Jekyll and Hyde.
But Me, Myself & Ireneâs real target is Dirty Harry, the obvious inspiration for repellent macho hardass Hank Evans. Merely fine as dopey state trooper Charlie Baileygates, Carreyâs in his element as the dildo-wielding, cow-slaying, lawn-defecating Hank.
In fact, Hankâs such a monstrous screen-hogger that the movie crumples whenever heâs not around.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Pushing aside a baby to suckle from a breastfeeding mom and emerging, grinning, with a milk moustache.
But Me, Myself & Ireneâs real target is Dirty Harry, the obvious inspiration for repellent macho hardass Hank Evans. Merely fine as dopey state trooper Charlie Baileygates, Carreyâs in his element as the dildo-wielding, cow-slaying, lawn-defecating Hank.
In fact, Hankâs such a monstrous screen-hogger that the movie crumples whenever heâs not around.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Pushing aside a baby to suckle from a breastfeeding mom and emerging, grinning, with a milk moustache.
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Ethan Edwards
Yes, heâs had a hard life. Yes, his niece has been kidnapped by Injuns. And yes, the grimmest man in cowboy land needs to be tough in order to handle a 15-year hunt across the badlands.
But, dear Lord, does he have to be such a blue-ribbon bastard about it?
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Shooting out the eyes of a dead Comanche. Why? On the off-chance that a Red Skin superstition is true...
âWhat that Comanche believes: ainât got no eyes, canât enter the spirit land, has to wander forever between the winds.â Harsh.
But, dear Lord, does he have to be such a blue-ribbon bastard about it?
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Shooting out the eyes of a dead Comanche. Why? On the off-chance that a Red Skin superstition is true...
âWhat that Comanche believes: ainât got no eyes, canât enter the spirit land, has to wander forever between the winds.â Harsh.
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Sean Bateman
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Shattering his ultra-nice, ultra-bland Dawsonâs Creek persona, Van Der Beek morphs into a malingering, manipulative, masturbating college type with ambitions to shag every nubile girl on campus.
Heâs the younger sib of psycho Patrick, so what did you expect?
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Caught post-coital with the roommate of his current obsession, Batemanâs only response is a no-seriously, âI only did it with her because Iâm in love with you!â
Heâs the younger sib of psycho Patrick, so what did you expect?
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Caught post-coital with the roommate of his current obsession, Batemanâs only response is a no-seriously, âI only did it with her because Iâm in love with you!â
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Percy Wetmore
The Green Mile (1999)
Heâs petty, heâs pouty and heâs not a team player. But Percy Wetmoreâs also a smug, well-connected little son of a bitch whoâs prison-guard existence is one big power trip.
âI like to assign animals to my characters, it helps to give you an image - you move and think in a certain way,â says actor Doug Hutchinson. âFor Percy, it was a pitbull.â Son of a bitch? It clearly workedâŚ
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Convinced even the electric chairâs not harsh enough for his charges, he neglects to wet a crucial sponge during the execution of Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter), leading to a horri-frying death for the good-natured convict.
âI like to assign animals to my characters, it helps to give you an image - you move and think in a certain way,â says actor Doug Hutchinson. âFor Percy, it was a pitbull.â Son of a bitch? It clearly workedâŚ
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Convinced even the electric chairâs not harsh enough for his charges, he neglects to wet a crucial sponge during the execution of Eduard Delacroix (Michael Jeter), leading to a horri-frying death for the good-natured convict.
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Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez
With a rap sheet that includes murder, robbery, extortion, deserting his wife and children and âtheft of sacred objects,â Tuco takes his bastardising seriously. Motivated only by the promise of moolah, heâll do away with or double-cross anyone â good or bad â to bathe in the glow of gold.
And heâll do it all with a sneer, a cackle and some terrific insults. âYouâre the son of a thousand fathers,â he screams at Eastwoodâs Man With No Name. âAll bastards like you!â Pot? Kettle? Whatever.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Tuco drags Clint through the desert, after having shot a hole in his water bottle, blasted his hat off his head and quipping, âLooks like you wonât have too much to carry!â
And heâll do it all with a sneer, a cackle and some terrific insults. âYouâre the son of a thousand fathers,â he screams at Eastwoodâs Man With No Name. âAll bastards like you!â Pot? Kettle? Whatever.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Tuco drags Clint through the desert, after having shot a hole in his water bottle, blasted his hat off his head and quipping, âLooks like you wonât have too much to carry!â
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Royal Tenenbaum
The Royal Tenenbaums (2002)
âIâve always been considered an asshole for as long as I can remember,â sayâs Worldâs Worst Father Royal Tenenbaum. âThatâs just my style.â At least heâs self-awareâŚ
Which actually makes it worse when he fakes a terminal illness to get back into his family home. Or takes his grandkids to a dogfight. Or dismisses his daughterâs first ever play as âjust a bunch of little kids dressed up in animal costumes.â To her face.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Shooting his eldest son, Chas (Ben Stiller), with a BB gun during a war game. âWhat are you doing? Youâre on my team!â wails Chas as he sees Pop take aim. âHa ha!â cackles Royal, âThere are no teams!â
Which actually makes it worse when he fakes a terminal illness to get back into his family home. Or takes his grandkids to a dogfight. Or dismisses his daughterâs first ever play as âjust a bunch of little kids dressed up in animal costumes.â To her face.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Shooting his eldest son, Chas (Ben Stiller), with a BB gun during a war game. âWhat are you doing? Youâre on my team!â wails Chas as he sees Pop take aim. âHa ha!â cackles Royal, âThere are no teams!â
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Raymond Dela
School For Scoundrels (1959) (1960)
The cadâs cad, the bounderâs bounder, Terry Thomas turns his sneaky gap-toothed charm on the girlfriend of Ian Carmichaelsâ nice guy, forcing the latter to learn a bunch of dirty tricks in order to win her back.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Delauney may get his comeuppance later on, but his first tennis victory over Carmichael is a soul-crushing piece of bastardy.
Not only does he thrash him, but he makes Carmichael look like the bad guy of the piece. The manâs a total and utter tosspot.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Delauney may get his comeuppance later on, but his first tennis victory over Carmichael is a soul-crushing piece of bastardy.
Not only does he thrash him, but he makes Carmichael look like the bad guy of the piece. The manâs a total and utter tosspot.
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Harry Callahan
A borderline psychotic who just happens to be on the right side of the law, âDirtyâ Harry Callahan ainât got time to play by the rules.
Harryâs appeared in five movies, taking out two serial killers (Dirty Harry, The Dead Pool), a group of rogue cops (Magnum Force), urban terrorists (The Enforcer) and a rape-revenge killer (Sudden Impact).
Nothing makes his day more than bringing in his man - preferably with a hole in the back of his head.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Having stopped a bank robbery early in Dirty Harry, he utters the famous âDo you feel lucky?â speech to a prone robber. Did Harry fire six shots or only five? The robber bottles it and drops his gun, but stops the cop walking away with the words:
âI got to know...â and a nod at the gun. Smiling, Harry points the Magnum at the terrified crookâs head and pulls the trigger. The gun clicks emptyâŚ
Harryâs appeared in five movies, taking out two serial killers (Dirty Harry, The Dead Pool), a group of rogue cops (Magnum Force), urban terrorists (The Enforcer) and a rape-revenge killer (Sudden Impact).
Nothing makes his day more than bringing in his man - preferably with a hole in the back of his head.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Having stopped a bank robbery early in Dirty Harry, he utters the famous âDo you feel lucky?â speech to a prone robber. Did Harry fire six shots or only five? The robber bottles it and drops his gun, but stops the cop walking away with the words:
âI got to know...â and a nod at the gun. Smiling, Harry points the Magnum at the terrified crookâs head and pulls the trigger. The gun clicks emptyâŚ
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King Edward Longshanks
Braveheart (1995)
With his glassy stare and hissing voice, Patrick McGoohanâs Longshanks is the very image of malice.
A total shit as a dad or father-in-law â after chucking his sonâs âspecial friendâ out of a window, Longshanks tells daughter-in-law Sophie Marceau that heâs going to have to sire his grandchildren himself. Ewww.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Issuing an order which gives his Scottish nobles the right to sleep with any commonerâs wife. âIf we canât get them out,â he says of the Scots, âweâll breed them out.â Which makes him a bastard willing to create several thousand more...
A total shit as a dad or father-in-law â after chucking his sonâs âspecial friendâ out of a window, Longshanks tells daughter-in-law Sophie Marceau that heâs going to have to sire his grandchildren himself. Ewww.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Issuing an order which gives his Scottish nobles the right to sleep with any commonerâs wife. âIf we canât get them out,â he says of the Scots, âweâll breed them out.â Which makes him a bastard willing to create several thousand more...
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Phil Connors
He may turn into the nicest man in Punxsutawney by the end of the movie, but at the start, the sexist, sarcastic, careerist Connors would struggle to be the nicest man in his own underpants. Murray at his sarky, snarling finest.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Phil asks a pretty girl a few questions about her life. The next time he lives through the day, he uses the info to con her into bed by pretending to have lusted after her from afar for years. Score! Uh - we mean, bastard!
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Phil asks a pretty girl a few questions about her life. The next time he lives through the day, he uses the info to con her into bed by pretending to have lusted after her from afar for years. Score! Uh - we mean, bastard!
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Col. William Tavington
The Patriot (2000)
Itâs all in the smirk. Without that hateful little mouth-twist following every innocent-slaughtering order, Jason Isaacsâ War of Independence cavalryman would be just another rent-a-Brit villain rather than a bona-fide bastard.
Itâs one thing to be a ruthless rebellion-crusher; itâs another to treat every atrocity â including executing POWs and killing not one, but two of Mel Gibsonâs sons â like itâs a joke. You gotta hate him.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Locking up the entire population of a village in a church then ordering the place to be burned down.
âBut thereâs no honour in this!â splutters a subordinate. âThe honourâs found in the end, not the means,â shrugs Tavington. âThisâll be forgottenâŚâ
Itâs one thing to be a ruthless rebellion-crusher; itâs another to treat every atrocity â including executing POWs and killing not one, but two of Mel Gibsonâs sons â like itâs a joke. You gotta hate him.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Locking up the entire population of a village in a church then ordering the place to be burned down.
âBut thereâs no honour in this!â splutters a subordinate. âThe honourâs found in the end, not the means,â shrugs Tavington. âThisâll be forgottenâŚâ
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Chad
In the Company of Men (1997)
A zero-conscience shit in the body of an alpha-male, businessman Chad convinces weak colleague Howard (Matt Malloy) to take part in a vicious prank; theyâll both date deaf secretary Christine (Stacy Edwards), woo her, then dump her simultaneously. Thatâll screw her up.
Not only that, it turns out Chad is also fucking with the eager-to-impress, easily led Howard (the twist ending smarts like a bitch). What we have here, ladies and gents, is not just a misogynist, but a full-blown misanthropist.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Taking the piss out of Christineâs voice soon after heâs gently encouraged her to speak up.
âSheâs got one of those voices like Flipper,â he tells Howard, âYou should hear her going at it, working to put the simplest sounds togetherâŚâ
Not only that, it turns out Chad is also fucking with the eager-to-impress, easily led Howard (the twist ending smarts like a bitch). What we have here, ladies and gents, is not just a misogynist, but a full-blown misanthropist.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Taking the piss out of Christineâs voice soon after heâs gently encouraged her to speak up.
âSheâs got one of those voices like Flipper,â he tells Howard, âYou should hear her going at it, working to put the simplest sounds togetherâŚâ
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Melvin Udall
There are misanthropes. There are malcontents. And then thereâs humanity-despising writer Melvin Udall. So who to play him? There was only one option in writer/director James L. Brooksâ mind...
"I had to think who could be this monster, but not completely turn the audience off. Jack was the only choice.â
The obsessive-compulsive Udall saunters through life as if heâs a champion of the politically incorrect.
No-one escapes from his bitter rantings: be they women (âI think of a man and I take away his reason and accountabilityâ is his method for writing female characters), intellectuals (âPeople who talk in metaphors should shampoo my crotchâ), homosexuals (âHe might pull the stiff one-eye on meâ) or even cute widdle caninesâŚ
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Slam-dunking Verdell, his sensitive neighbourâs tiny dog, down the nearest rubbish chute after it dares to come trotting into his apartment.
"I had to think who could be this monster, but not completely turn the audience off. Jack was the only choice.â
The obsessive-compulsive Udall saunters through life as if heâs a champion of the politically incorrect.
No-one escapes from his bitter rantings: be they women (âI think of a man and I take away his reason and accountabilityâ is his method for writing female characters), intellectuals (âPeople who talk in metaphors should shampoo my crotchâ), homosexuals (âHe might pull the stiff one-eye on meâ) or even cute widdle caninesâŚ
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Slam-dunking Verdell, his sensitive neighbourâs tiny dog, down the nearest rubbish chute after it dares to come trotting into his apartment.
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Dennis Peck
Cop Dennis Peck cuts a swathe through LA, taking bribes from the Valley vice trade, laundering his ill-gotten gains through four ex-wives, and shagging his accomplice's wives.
When internal affairs hot-head Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) comes calling, Peck cranks up his campaign of intimidation, burrowing into the brain of his adversary like some strutting human incarnation of Mad Cow Disease.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: While shagging the wife of his partner, Van Stretch (William Baldwin), Peck hears Stretch is about to turn informant on him. So he has him gunned down, then finishes the job himself.
When internal affairs hot-head Raymond Avila (Andy Garcia) comes calling, Peck cranks up his campaign of intimidation, burrowing into the brain of his adversary like some strutting human incarnation of Mad Cow Disease.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: While shagging the wife of his partner, Van Stretch (William Baldwin), Peck hears Stretch is about to turn informant on him. So he has him gunned down, then finishes the job himself.
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Captain William Bligh
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Even before they set sail on a grueling two-year voyage to Tahiti, legendary tyrant Captain Bligh has already given one of his men a sound flogging. And he wasnât remotely concerned that the bloke was already dead.
Barking orders, cutting rations and ordering punishments (âIâll give you water. Mr. Morrison, keel-haul this manâ), Blighâs an ultra-disciplinarian with a heart carved out of hardwood.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Not content with thrashing five starving sailors to within an inch of their lives, Bligh insists the shipâs elderly Dr. Bacchus (Dudley Digges) struggle out of his sickbed to witness it.
Hopelessly ill, the doc dies trying to crawl up on deck.
Barking orders, cutting rations and ordering punishments (âIâll give you water. Mr. Morrison, keel-haul this manâ), Blighâs an ultra-disciplinarian with a heart carved out of hardwood.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Not content with thrashing five starving sailors to within an inch of their lives, Bligh insists the shipâs elderly Dr. Bacchus (Dudley Digges) struggle out of his sickbed to witness it.
Hopelessly ill, the doc dies trying to crawl up on deck.
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Gunnery Sgt. Hartman
Originally hired as a consultant, former US Marine drill instructor Ermey sent Stanley Kubrick a video in which he bellowed out obscenities for 15 minutes without pausing or repeating himself.
Hartman turns abuse into an art form - his foul-mouthery is enough to make the hardest Marine blub like a nipper. You had best start shitting Tiffany cufflinks or he will definitely fuck you up.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: ââŚBecause you are a disgusting FATBODY!â After forcing Private âPyleâ (Vincent DâOnofrio) to scoff a doughnut while the rest of the platoon do push-ups to pay for it, Hartman makes sure the tubby chap gets a saveage bedtime beating from his mates after lights-out.
Hartman turns abuse into an art form - his foul-mouthery is enough to make the hardest Marine blub like a nipper. You had best start shitting Tiffany cufflinks or he will definitely fuck you up.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: ââŚBecause you are a disgusting FATBODY!â After forcing Private âPyleâ (Vincent DâOnofrio) to scoff a doughnut while the rest of the platoon do push-ups to pay for it, Hartman makes sure the tubby chap gets a saveage bedtime beating from his mates after lights-out.
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Arthur Potter
It's a Wonderful Life (1947) (1946)
He may be the richest man in Bedford Falls, but it brings no pleasure to Potter. He wants complete control of the town and the only thing standing in the way is George (James Stewart). Without George, heâd have taken over the place long ago.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: If the missing cash from the Building & Loan isnât found, then George is off to jail. Not only does Potter find the missing moolah and hide it, he also turns down the chance to loan George enough to cover the shortfall.
The icing on the cake? Potter then calls the police to grass the guy up.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: If the missing cash from the Building & Loan isnât found, then George is off to jail. Not only does Potter find the missing moolah and hide it, he also turns down the chance to loan George enough to cover the shortfall.
The icing on the cake? Potter then calls the police to grass the guy up.
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Buddy Ackerman
Swimming with Sharks (1995)
Former employers of first-time director George Huang winced when they saw the screen monster theyâd spawned. In the tradition of JJ Hunsecker in Sweet Smell Of Success, Hollywood mogul Buddy Ackerman is an aphorism-spouting tyrant with a heart you could fit into a thimble.
A classic Bad Kev role from the days before slop like Pay It Forward, Ackerman makes Keyzer Soze look endearing. The plot may be wobbly, but the one-liners (âIf you were in my toilet I wouldnât bother flushing itâ) are priceless.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Lecturing luckless lackey Guy (Frank Whaley) on the importance of fetching his low-fat sweetener: âWhat you think means nothing. What you feel means nothing. You are here for me.â
A classic Bad Kev role from the days before slop like Pay It Forward, Ackerman makes Keyzer Soze look endearing. The plot may be wobbly, but the one-liners (âIf you were in my toilet I wouldnât bother flushing itâ) are priceless.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Lecturing luckless lackey Guy (Frank Whaley) on the importance of fetching his low-fat sweetener: âWhat you think means nothing. What you feel means nothing. You are here for me.â
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Gordon Gekko
Wall Street (1987)
Oliver Stoneâs withering stare into the brains of â80s Yuppiedom brought to life one of Movielandâs smoothest sharks. Gekkoâs a money-hungry monster who spends his time buying up companies, making a packet and ditching the ethical consequences.
And though the director had wanted Warren Beatty or Richard Gere to inhabit Gekkoâs skin, Douglas nailed it, bagging an Oscar in the process.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Setting up hungry young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) as his stooge in the takeover of an airline that employâs Foxâs father. Then slicing up the business and hanging Bud out to dry when the fraud squad come calling.
And though the director had wanted Warren Beatty or Richard Gere to inhabit Gekkoâs skin, Douglas nailed it, bagging an Oscar in the process.
Prime Act Of Bastardy: Setting up hungry young stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) as his stooge in the takeover of an airline that employâs Foxâs father. Then slicing up the business and hanging Bud out to dry when the fraud squad come calling.
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