AnonymousAnonymous wrote:
Annie Wilkes from Misery
I totally agree with you on that one. Speaking as an artist, I can't imagine anything more terrifying than having to subordinate my creative abilities to somebody else's tastes under threat of bodily harm. Not only was Annie Wilkes volatile, psychotic, homicidal, and sadistic, she was the embodiment of everything that plagues artists-- mediocrity, and unhealthy obsession with formulaic repetition, and stagnation. And of course, let's not forget that her possessiveness resulted in a particularly gruesome display involving a sledgehammer and a 2x4.
I'm also going to add
Sergeant Barnes from
Platoon to the list. The character was created to be perfectly unlikable. He was a murderous, dishonorable backstabber, the symbolic darkness to the light symbolized by Sergeant Elias. And then he intentionally left Elias to die. Boy, was I happy to see him finally get what was coming to him.
Oh, almost forgot.
Carter Burke from
Aliens. What a
sleaze. The Weyland-Yutani Corporation has a long history of unscrupulous behavior within the canon of the
Alien movies-- but Burke's actions are in a class of their own. His scheme to use Ripley and Newt to carry alien embryos past quarantine (and kill the rest of the Colonial Marines in the process) was a really special kind of vile. Not to mention his cowardice of actually
sealing the door behind him and trapping the other survivors when he abandoned them. Luckily, said cowardice put him right in the path of a ticked off xenomorph.
I have to agree with you on Burke and Barnes. What Burke did made Ripley question which species was worse, and what Barnes did makes you wonder whose side he was on.
07 Jun 2012, 4:56 pm
