[…] Alan Rickman is a reputable and recognizable British actor that many movie audiences remember from his appearances as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter cinematic series, Judge Turpin in Sweeney Todd and Sheriff George of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. But before all of these pop culture performances, Rickman rose up to the top floor of elite action movie villains with his 1988 portrayal as Hans …read more […]

Gruber > Heisenberg

all due respect, but... Not. Even. Close. And imho, Hans Gruber is the greatest movie villain of all time. But Heisenberg is on a whole different level. Gruber is an intelligent man who's too arrogant to care what the rest of the world thinks of him and from a position of strength, uses fear to achieve his specific goal. otoh, Heisenberg is driven by the notion that the rest of the world doesn't acknowledge his intelligence. His goal is that he wants to be strong and to be feared. But it's true that without Gruber, there would be no Heisenberg.