On April 26, the 93rd Oscar Awards Gala will be held. A gala that will be very different from previous years will already be totally conditioned by the pandemic. The cinema has given us many unforgettable characters and, among them, the greatest villains in history who have passed into posterity, being, at times, more famous than the protagonists themselves.Hannibal Lecter It is impossible to forget that character that Anthony Hopkins played in the immense film by Jonathan Demme, ‘The Silence of the Lambs’. From the word, and with the cold gaze that characterizes his character, Lecter was even more important than the story itself and passed into memory as one of the most illustrious villains in the history of cinema. Then came ‘Hannibal’ as the second part and the homonymous series starring Mads Mikkelsen, but nothing like the Lecter from ‘The Silence of the Lambs.’ Joker The first time we saw a credible Joker who remained one of the most admired villains in cinema was when Jack Nicholson was He appropriated the character with Tim Burton’s first ‘Batman’. A few actors have already passed through the character such as Jared Leto or the most recent, Joaquin Phoenix. But, without a doubt, the most remembered, and most achieved thanks to an imposing portrayal of the villain, has been that of Hedge Leather for ‘The Dark Knight’ It was his last role before he died, but it was the role of his life. as Alfred Hitchcock to create a memorable and timeless character like the Norman Bates from ‘Psycho’. He was the first human villain to go down in history for his coldness and duality of his actions. Over time he became a memorable character that we will never forget.Michael Mayers Known as ‘The Shape’, Michael Mayers is the natural and most recurring example of slasher cinema. The Halloween saga has been maintained over the years thanks to this character who had no one to stand up to him. His mask, his strength and his knife, hallmarks of John Carpenter’s classic Darth Vader Throughout the history of cinema, if we remember a villain who has managed to hook viewers, he is none other than the mythical Darth Vader. A dark present that kept a tragic story from the past. Someone without a face but that we all recognize. ‘Star Wars’ wouldn’t have been what it is today without an attractive baddie like Vader.
