Memento
Christopher Nolan ’s newfangled flick , Oppenheimer , will dramatize the result of the Manhattan Project . The main antagonist of the picture will be the monumental warfare machine that necessitated the construction of such a deadly weapon . But the scoundrel of Nolan ’s movies are n’t always so abstract . Some of Nolan ’s villain are rightfully despicable , like opprobrious megalomaniac Andrei Sator inTenetand the unscrupulous Axis magnate driving the Allies off the beach inDunkirk , but some of them are oddly lovable .
FromThe Dark Knight ’s Joker toInception ’s Mal Cobb toThe Prestige ’s Robert Angier , there are many Nolan motion picture villain that witness can sympathize with .
10Bane (The Dark Knight Rises)
Tom Hardy took on the intimidating undertaking of following up Heath Ledger ’s Academy Award - deliver the goods Joker in the function of the next villain to terrorize Nolan ’s Gotham . Hardy headlinedThe Dark Knight Riseswith a astonishingly appealing take on Bane .
scourge might be a megalomaniac who destroys every span out of Gotham and traps the metropolis ’s entire law force-out underground to keep the citizen live on in reverence , but his tragical backstory at least gives him an intelligible motivation .
9Walter Finch (Insomnia)
Nolan ’s most aboveboard criminal offense thriller , Insomnia – a Hollywood remaking of the Norse film of the same name – asterisk Robin Williams as a socially ill at ease manslayer and Al Pacino as the police detective on his tail .
As disturbing as Walter Finch is , both in his actions and in his personality , his likability is helped by the fact he ’s act as by Robin Williams , who ’s impossible to dislike . Even when Robin Williams is playing a reprehensible manslayer ( with startling commitment ) , he ’s still Robin Williams .
8Dr. Mann (Interstellar)
The primary antagonistic force in Nolan ’s spacefaring sci - fi epicInterstellaris humanity being its own bad enemy . Cooper and his gang are send out into the cosmos to determine the human race a new base after it depletes all its natural resource .
But there is also a specific scoundrel , the cleverly named Hugh Mann . Thanks to a combination of Matt Damon ’s stunt casting and the character ’s relatable survival instinct , Dr. Mann is charitable in spitefulness of his malicious intentions .
7Two-Face (The Dark Knight)
Atthe rootage ofThe Dark Knight , Harvey Dent is more of a beacon fire of hope for Gotham City than Batman himself . But the Joker sets out to corrupt Gotham ’s “ white horse ” just to evidence that anybody can be grease one’s palms .
After Dent loses half of his cheek and the love of his life in a nefarious plot to mess with Batman , his glum transformation into the supervillain Two - Face is understandable .
The most compelling and charismatic someone whose life is invade by this curious writer is Cobb , a petty crook who institutionalize criminal offense more for the thrill than the material gain .
5Leonard Shelby (Memento)
The champion and resister of Nolan ’s acclaimed psychological thrillerMementoare one and the same . Leonard Shelby has amnesia that forbid him from remember anything before the Nox of his wife ’s death , which presents an obstruction in his attempts to see out how she died .
While Leonard did n’t off his married woman , he did cause her death . After an attack that left both Leonard and his wife traumatized , Leonard gave her an insulin overdose and was so riddled with guilt trip that he concocted a story .
4Catwoman (The Dark Knight Rises)
Nolan went back to basics with his depiction of Catwoman inThe Dark Knight rise . Anne Hathaway plays Selina Kyleas a relatable 99 - percenter who burglarize rich people like Bruce Wayne to scrape by in an unjust economy .
This reading of Catwoman is n’t even really a villain ; she ’s more of an antihero , and in the final battle , she becomes a worthful ally of Batman as oppose to another obstruction standing in his way of life .
3Robert Angier (The Prestige)
Robert Angier be long enough to see himself become the villain inNolan ’s sci - fi thrillerThe Prestige . He drop the movie locked in an intense rivalry with fellow magician Alfred Borden , desperate to compute out the secrets of the “ Transported Man ” trick .
Whereas Borden utilize the honorable method of sharing his identity with a twin blood brother , Angier uses the amoral method of down unnumberable clones of himself .
2Mal Cobb (Inception)
The villainous Mal find inInceptionisn’t really an exact representation of Cobb ’s married woman ; she ’s a manifestation of the guilty conscience that her hubby feels over her untimely pass .
1The Joker (The Dark Knight)
Heath Ledger is a mesmerizing on - screen presence with his Oscar - winning portrait of the Joker inThe Dark Knight . The movie arrest Batman ’s co - dependant human relationship with the Clown Prince of Crime . Like all great villains , this Joker make a unspoilt point .
The murderous method he uses to prove that point are questionable , but he ’s right that civilization is just a facade that would drop to reveal people ’s unfeigned nature the 2nd something fall along to break up the order .
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