Who are some of your favorite villains that got away at the end of the film? --like Hannibal Lecter, from Silence of the Lambs for example.
Screenwriting : Favorite Villains? by Matthew James Sheridan
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Anton Chigurh, from No Country for Old Men, and in a wild and twisted way Tyler Durden, from Fight Club.
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Hans Gruber
Gruber fell 20 floors from the Nakatomi building. I don't think he made it. (Recently revisited DIE HARD.)
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Oooooooh, what Kevin said. We just rewatched No Country over the weekend (it's my favorite movie of all time) and Anton Chigurh all DAY.
And on a wildly different note: Janet in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
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Oh, the got away bit I missed.
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Corbin Bernsen in The Dentist and Jim Seidow in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre! Though can’t remember if the dentist got away or has resurrected himself in me!!!
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Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspect.
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The Thomas Crowne Affair (don’t know the villains name). Loved it!
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Bill Murray in Quick Change
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This is tricky! I'd have to say the Daleks in Dr. Who, the Borg Queen in Star Trek or the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica. They all keep coming back!
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Annelies took mine, but Ill alter it to say that it was Keyser Soze who got away
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@Ingrid Yeah the Daleks just keep coming back even long after the original Doctor Wiiliam Hartnell in the 60's. @Rebecca I remember the climax of The Thomas Crown affair, the villain was multi faceted and a lot of people batted for him rather than his chess game opponent who kinda had it coming.
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Emmanuel T Zorg (The Fifth Element)/Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula)/Norman Stansfield (Léon: The Professional) ie: Gary Oldman; Angel Eyes (The Good, the Bad, the Ugly); Scar (The Lion King, 1994); Reverend Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter)
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I'll also say one of my LEAST favorite villains who got away with it: Curly in Oklahoma!
But truly.