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EW calls Gollum #10 most vile villain ever


Who’d have thought that a character created entirely through motion capture could be considered more evil than both Heath Ledger‘s Joker from The Dark Knight and Jack Nicholson‘s Jack Torrance from The Shining? Entertainment Weekly, that’s who. In one of the website’s recent lists compiling the 50 most “vile villains” in the history of cinema, […]

Who’d have thought that a character created entirely through motion capture could be considered more evil than both Heath Ledger‘s Joker from The Dark Knight and Jack Nicholson‘s Jack Torrance from The Shining? Entertainment Weekly, that’s who. In one of the website’s recent lists compiling the 50 most “vile villains” in the history of cinema, Gollum – the nefarious trickster from The Lord of the Rings trilogy – has managed to land a comfortable spot at number 10. This puts him ahead of such iconic antagonists as Hans Gruber from Die Hard (played by Alan Rickman) and Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz. “He may only be a CGI character,” says Kate Ward of Entertainment Weekly, “but the conflicted, bipolar Gollum managed to be both cute and scary — a feat we hadn’t seen accomplished since Gremlins. Love him or hate him, you can’t deny that his tendency to break out into cheerful song in between ruthlessly chasing the ring of power was, well, precious. Plus, he bit off Frodo’s fingers. And that’s pretty bad-ass.” Gollum joins the ranks of other illustrious villains in the list’s top 10 such as Ralph Fiennes‘ Voldemort in the Harry Potter films and Anthony Perkins’ unforgettable turn as Norman Bates in Psycho. The schizophrenic creature, played by Andy Serkis, will next be seen in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, which hits theaters on December 14th.~Devin Garabedian

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