Good or bad?

[Minerva]

Here i go again, asking questions...but right now it's only my emotions speaking.
On our local tv movie channel i just saw for the zillion time "Schindler's list", and i will be watching it again tomorrow. Yes, i'm a sick, sick person.
I've never noticed before that in the film Ralph talks in english with pure german accent! Also i realized, that he's only 31 years old there, the same age i am right now. It's a huge responsibility to such an young actor to play someone, who took place in history, someone so complicated.
Sorry, for that "foreplay".
What i wanted to ask you is:
those of us, who like Ralph playing bad guys. Why do you like him bad? Do you think that those roles come out more successful, more remembered?
Personally, more or less, i like all of his roles, and remember each and one of them, but i like him more, when he's bad.

[Lilly]

No, Minerva your not sick, we just enjoy watching Ralph work. That and I'm the fact that he's soo incredibly hot in that movie has alot to do with it as well.

I myself I love Ralph any way, good guy or bad guy. I love the sweet and romantic characters,
he just melts my heart. His eyes, the way he stares, and when he makes that small sweet smile.
In S.L. I love the way he was touching Hanna, you could see a kind of tender, soft side and then there was the side where he could just flip a switch and smack her. I don't mean to sound insensitive, I just mean I would love for him to do that to me;)
No Minerva, I think I'm the sick one!
Smack me, Ralph Babie!!

[Minerva]

Lilly, this exactly what i am talking about! He is so unpredictable, you never know waht to expect from him :) Th fact that there is a rage and tenderness live in him altogether is a huge turn on ;) He can and he is so different from time to time. Look at him in "In Bruges", one minute he's crazy villain, and in a second all calm and smily. That's huge! :)
And yes, you right about that particular scene in SL, where he goes down to the basement to talk to Helen...the best example of how good and how mad he can be.

What kind of hospital would agree to take us in and take care of our mental illness?
I wonder...

[trugannini]

No Hospital Minerva! No No.....in hospital they're all sane and bored....the place to be is out here with the mad ones, able to party.... :)

[Minerva]

i love madness and i love to be amongst mad people...
it looks like for now i found my haven :)

[fiennesite]

Great topic! Ralph has said in a number of interviews that he prefers playing these complex dark characters...as he says the "b" side of people. I think his enjoyment of digging deep into the human psyche and making it hard for us to see a black/white villain is what draws us in to all the roles he plays. I like him when he's bad too;-) I love him more as the villain...the other man, the evil commandant, anywhere he plays a character that's hard to like, but you end up understanding that character...it means he has succeeded. I'm just sad he hasn't found such a role in a long while.
Mary K.

[trugannini]

Where are the good screen writers.....? Well put MaryK, I always understand his characters which means he is doing an excellent job......Red Dragon was my favourite. :)

[Minerva]

well, there was Harry Waters - absolut psycho, i liked him very, very much! :) and there is Duchess coming up...BUT! it is still not that kind of evil we are talking about, are we? ;)

[Dana]

I like all of his roles, too. One of my absolute favorites is from Bernard and Doris (troubled, yes, but caring and gay). I like his bad guy roles because he is so expressive with his eyes, and there are so many moments where he conveys his anger through them and it's just electrifying to me.

[Dana]

I just read the above comments after posting.
I agree totally with your feelings, Lilly! And, yes, it feels a bit strange to admit it. One of my favorite "bad guy" scenes is in Sunshine when his wife tells him she wants to leave him and he basically starts to rape her (this is SO politically incorrect and insensitive), and he is just consumed by his anger and love and passion all at once and goes at her. How I wish it could be me that he does that to. I also love it when he yells in his roles. So much emotion from such a dignified man is a great turn on, at least as far as he is concerned.

[Minerva]

omg, thank you for that!
that's why i absolutely adore him in SL, and that scene with Helen, where he at first so sweet and human, but in a second - a monster!
i talked to some girls - it's a fact, everyone like that in him! this is what most of them consider as a huge turn on...
you feel, like you can let this man do to you anything he wishes...

[Minerva]

i liked Bernard also...it was something about him...i can't explain...but he was so tender and sweet, i felt like hugging him, give him a blancket and a cup of tea, sit beside him and listen him telling me stories...gosh...

[Dana]

I'd love for him to do anything he wishes to me, with me.......(cue the daydream). I just can't imagine ever rejecting any advance that he makes. I'm sure there are women who have rejected him (all out of their minds, in my opinion), but I certainly couldn't whether he's "nice" or "bad" at the time ;)