Man this looks good.
It's hard seeing Gary Oldman playing a character you're not supposed to like. So used to him as Jim Gordon...
Oldman has played quite a few characters you're not supposed to like--Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, Dracula, Drexl Spivey in True Romance, Stansfield in Léon: The Professional, Dr. Smith in Lost In Space, Zorg in The Fifth Element, and so on. The problem, in my opinion, is that he's so good at what he does and plays even the most despicable characters with such enthusiasm that it's difficult to dislike the man and/or the characters he creates....It's hard seeing Gary Oldman playing a character you're not supposed to like. So used to him as Jim Gordon...
Oldman has played quite a few characters you're not supposed to like--Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, Dracula, Drexl Spivey in True Romance, Stansfield in Léon: The Professional, Dr. Smith in Lost In Space, Zorg in The Fifth Element, and so on. The problem, in my opinion, is that he's so good at what he does and plays even the most despicable characters with such enthusiasm that it's difficult to dislike the man and/or the characters he creates.
I concur; he's a chameleon. The characters might have Oldman's face, but they're otherwise unique and distinct.Good points. And you sometimes forget he even played those characters because he's so different in a lot of the movies he plays in. He's not Gary Oldman as "XYZ" character... it's like there is no Gary Oldman... he IS the character.
Especially considering he was buried under all of that makeup. I don't really consider Verger to be a villainous character though--I think almost anyone who survived one of Lecter's attacks and had the means would probably seek revenge the way Verger did.Hard to believe he was Mason Verger in Hannibal, too.