Top 10 "That blokes a nutter!" in film.

[Annierak]

Tim Roth in 'Made in England'.

 

[Annierak]

He's hilariously nutty in Leon too

Bring me everyone.
What do you mean "everyone"?
EVERYYYYYYONNNNNNE.

I loved Oldman in 'Leon'. He plays such a convincing nutter

 

[ajk]

Otherwise, Don Logan. YES!

 

[rekil]

 

[MooChild]

John Lithgow in Ricochet was quite good as a complete nutcase

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast

This is what i was going to say.

 

[fishfinger]

Tadanobu Asano in Ichi the Killer

 

[scifisam]

Otherwise, Don Logan. YES!

Is that Gordon Brown?

 

[Jambooboo]

Franco Begbie.

 

[ajk]

Is that Gordon Brown?

General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen, tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence

 

[ajk]

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Michael Moriarty in Q, the Winged Serpent.

 

[albionism]

Ray Winstone. Nil By Mouth

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The guy with the rabbits in his trunk in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

 

[albionism]

Ewan Bremner in Julian Donkey Boy. A terrific actor.

 

[albionism]

"She does like Hi Karate aftershave doesn't she?"
Morell from A Room For Romeo Brass

 

[MightyAphrodite]

jack nicholson can do crazy like no other...the mans a legend.

 

[Andy the Don]

This fuckin' tool!

 

[Felina]

I love a good scary nutter

I can't choose!!

 

[Louloubelle]

another vote for Morell from A Room for Romeo Brass



My favourite scene is the one where he tells Romeo's family about how he defeated an invisible psychic entity in a wrestling match and they just listen politely, sadly not on youtube

also, of course, Charles Laughton as the evil preacher in

 

[Structaural]

O'Dog in Menace II Society

 

[butchersapron]

also, of course, Charles Laughton as the evil preacher in

Schoolboy error there i'm afraid.

 

[stdPikachu]

Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast

The fact that this one was missed invalidates the whole list. I don't think there is any more quinessential an "I'm a nutter" performance, you honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble.

 

[chazegee]

The fact that this one was missed invalidates the whole list. I don't think there is any more quinessential an "I'm a nutter" performance, you honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble.

Innit.

 

[chazegee]

another vote for Morell from A Room for Romeo Brass

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This whole Meadows / Considine thing is all a revelation to me.

*D/L*

 

[stdPikachu]

Bit of both, but mainly madness, ie. Considine doesn't get my vote because although he chops up people and puts them in suitcases, he goes about it in quite a calm and sensible manner.

What I loved most about his character was that even though he acted in a calm and sensible manner, it was obvious from the way he talked to the crims that he was evidently being consumed by an insane rage. He was clearly a very tightly wound focus of fury, and it was obvious from the first "You, ya cunt!" that he was a few electrons short of a stable isotope.

Spoiler warning: the fact that he's been driven mad by the ghost of his disabled younger brother, whom he loved but hated for his "deformity", clearly marks him down as quite astonishingly disturbed, and the scene where he drugs the three gang members into a mental state equivalent to that of his brother is one of the coldest I've ever seen in cinema. Definitely a classic lunatic, but there are others who are more overt about it who will always get more recognition.

 

[geoff64]

Klaus Kinski in Aguirre, Wrath of God

Robert Newton as Bill Sykes in the oldy version of Oliver Twist

 

[colbhoy]

Robert Newton as Bill Sykes in the oldy version of Oliver Twist

Ollie Reed in the musical version is pretty good as well.

 

[Yetman]

Harvey Keitel in Bad Leutenant

Blanche Baker as Ruth Chandler in The Girl Next Door

Benoît Poelvoorde as Ben in Man Bites Dog