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Favorite on screen sociopaths

Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet comes to mind.... I don't remember it well, but I was kinda creeped out when he went around with the nitrous oxide mask on his face. "Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!"

Regarding The Wire, I liked Omar the best. Not a sociopath, but one cold relentless dude if you pissed him off....

Oops, Frank Booth was already up there just had a spoiler button :) I really can't remember any of the plot to that movie, just that he scared the shit out of me, and that photo reminds me.....

In literature, the Harkonnens were the most evil twisted sadistic fuckers i've ever run across.... The Baron Vladimir was the most vile of them all. I remember reading the Dune books tweaking on speed at 3 in the morning terrified and disgusted by what I could not stop reading......
 
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Gotta say that Marlo Stanfield is kinda like George Bush, a kid playing videogames.... I'd destroy Marlo Stanfield in a streetfight. I'd love to see Dick Cheney walking down the sidewalk..... Chris Partlow on the other hand, there's an out there nigga.
 
Tuco cared about his uncle, but it was more as a reverent god-figure than a normal family member, a sentiment born from fear and respect rather than love. Tuco is a class-A sociopath.
 
blakmike said:
To the OP

Gotta say that Marlo Stanfield is kinda like George Bush, a kid playing videogames.... I'd destroy Marlo Stanfield in a streetfight. I'd love to see Dick Cheney walking down the sidewalk..... Chris Partlow on the other hand, there's an out there nigga.
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He handled himself well taking on those two hoppers who didn't know who he was.

I'd also assume that just because Marlo didn't pull the trigger on too many people, while he was on top, doesn't mean he wasn't a ruthless motherfucker when he was lower on the totem pole.


Code or no code I'm pretty sure Omar also fits the qualifications of a sociopath. When all is said and done I'm pretty sure McNulty may well qualify as well. i



My personal favorite has already been mentioned, Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. The gas station scene is one of my favorite movie scenes.
 
Carl Landrover said:
He handled himself well taking on those two hoppers who didn't know who he was.

I'd also assume that just because Marlo didn't pull the trigger on too many people, while he was on top, doesn't mean he wasn't a ruthless motherfucker when he was lower on the totem pole.


Code or no code I'm pretty sure Omar also fits the qualifications of a sociopath. When all is said and done I'm pretty sure McNulty may well qualify as well. i



My personal favorite has already been mentioned, Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. The gas station scene is one of my favorite movie scenes.
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I have no recollection of that scene dammit! FUCK I always get up to piss and miss the good shit
 
xxxyyy said:
armin-müller stahl and vincent cassel in eastern promises. cassel also was pretty entertaining in dobermann. and public enemy no. 1
dries van hegen in ex drummer. this is a rather unknown belgian movie that completely blew me away. i highly recommend that you all watch it.

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oh and eric bana in chopper. he was phenomenal in that role

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Thanks for this post, I would co-recomend Chopper and Ex Drummer, and I also really enjoyed watching Eastern Promises based on your post, especially the father character.

It occurs to me Henry, Portrait of a serial killer also was an interesting look into some pretty messed up psychology, I would add that to to the list.

I can't believe I missed Dennis Hopper in my first post now that he has been mentioned, that guy is pretty clasic.
 
poppymilk said:
Tony Soprano

Walter White has turned into one as much as I try to forget malcolm in the middle, his justifications are ridiculous now

@blakmike Frank Booth was sniffing amyl nitrate not nitrous
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Are we counting adaptive Anti-Social Personality Disorder as true sociopathy now? Sure, Walter White behaves like a sociopath in many ways, but he wasn't always a sociopath. He developed these traits in response to trauma and as a coping mechanism for his environment. It's the same reason I listed Tuco and not Gus, both Walt and Gus are capable of feeling the full range of human emotions, they simply choose to suppress their conscience and many of their emotions as a means of coping with their internal traumas (neither wants to think about the horrible shit they have done) and surviving a harsh and unforgiving environment. In a way, not being a total sociopath like Tuco is worse. Tuco was always going to be crazy and mean, but Walter and Gus both made choices to enter into this lifestyle.
 
Tyler Durden/Narrator from Fight Club
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I prefer to think of Durden as more of a controversial political rebel and a brazen idealist than a malignant sadist. Drunk with his own Kool-Aid, like so many other would-be heroes in fiction and human history before him, this charismatic anarcho-primitivist feels compelled to commit admittedly antisocial acts of terrorism to achieve his revolutionary ends. Tyler doesn't get off on pain and suffering as such, but as a means to an end in a life that he perceives as inherently brutish and masochistic (hence his 'underground boxing clubs' and anarchic aspirations). His megalomania aside, Durden came across to me - both in the book and the film - as a fiery, passionate dreamer with a steadfast devotion to a social cause (however vague) that no shallow psychopath could fathom.
 
TouchN' Stuff Blvd said:
Thanks for this post, I would co-recomend Chopper and Ex Drummer, and I also really enjoyed watching Eastern Promises based on your post, especially the father character.

It occurs to me Henry, Portrait of a serial killer also was an interesting look into some pretty messed up psychology, I would add that to to the list.

I can't believe I missed Dennis Hopper in my first post now that he has been mentioned, that guy is pretty clasic.
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yeah, i missed that too. frank booth is wonderfully fucked up. also always glad when someone watches good movies based on my recommendation.
also it could be argued that viggo mortensen's character in a history of violence has certain sociopathic tendencies. his performance is great in any case, only surpassed by his performance in eastern promises. it's probably the only adaption i've ever seen that was way better than the source material, which is pretty crap actually. by leaving a lot ambiguous that was very much explained in the graphic novel it sort of felt darker and more satisfying.
i'm gonna rewatch that movie now. i remember seeing it during its initial run and being completely blown away by it, mainly because it only played in arthouse cinemas and i didn't even know cronenberg directed it when i went into it. i watched the movie knowing absolutely fuck all about it save its title, and that in that case that was a thoroughly good thing.
henry: portrait of a serial killer was all the more disturbing for leaving a lot of things implied, and the almost documentary style way it was shot. that it was based on henry lee lucas makes it all the more so.
 
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