Lorraine McFly (nee Baines) - Back to the Future
Wonderfully encapsulated by Lea Thompson both as a precocious yet sexually charged teen and also as an alcoholic middle-aged mother, Lorraine first meets Marty McFly when her dad runs him over after Marty heroically saves his own dad, George, after falling out of a tree he climbed up to perv on some bird in her bra. Confused as feck? So were we back in 1985 when the first of this classic series was released upon our lives.
Also begged the question, if Marty wasn't born yet, and his mam was seventeen, years away from giving birth to him (therefore not really his mum yet) and trying it on with him, would it have been actual incest if he did feck her?
Bunny Murphy - Platoon
For years, one look at Kevin Dillon's face made me contort with anger. As a ten year old, I watched Platoon and was horrified with some of the scenes, yet mesmerised simultaneously. One character stuck with me throughout these years from this wonderful war epic, and that is Bunny, the sadistic young Brooklyner played by Kevin Dillon, younger brother of the more famous Matt Dillon.
The infamous village scene in which Bunny smashes the head in of a young amputee in front of his mother with his shotgun is particularly nasty. "I never seen feckin' brains like that before" says Bunny with a grin on his face.
Several years later and I vowed never to watch Entourage because Kevin Dillon was in it, purely because of his turn as Bunny Murphy, yet due to an error trying to download Pacino's Dog Day Afternoon, which turned out to be an episode of Entourage which I immediately fell in love with, my tune has changed and I can honestly say my Kevin Dillon hating days are over, but evil Bunny sticks with me.....
Mortimer Duke - Trading Places
Quite simply the more wicked of the two tycoon brothers, Don Ameche played the part of the younger Duke after several years out of the limelight as an actor. In this classic tale of rags to riches, Mortimer is the instigator of the bet with his older sibling Randolph to jeopardize the life of Louis Winthorpe and replace him with the street-urchin Billy-Ray Valentine.
In two significant moments in the movie condusive to the character's wicked ways, the ever-gentlemanly Ameche apologised to every black crew-member after filming the scene where he refers to Eddie Murphy's Valentine as 'a nigger' and also apologised to every female crew-member after saying the words 'feck him' when Ralph Bellamy's Randolph suffers a heart-attack.
Although it does beg the question, earlier in the movie when Valentine enquires if Mortimer and Randolph are 'a couple of old faggots', how come they were both seemingly unmarried and into housing young, black men off the street? Hmmmm...
Wonderfully encapsulated by Lea Thompson both as a precocious yet sexually charged teen and also as an alcoholic middle-aged mother, Lorraine first meets Marty McFly when her dad runs him over after Marty heroically saves his own dad, George, after falling out of a tree he climbed up to perv on some bird in her bra. Confused as feck? So were we back in 1985 when the first of this classic series was released upon our lives.
Also begged the question, if Marty wasn't born yet, and his mam was seventeen, years away from giving birth to him (therefore not really his mum yet) and trying it on with him, would it have been actual incest if he did feck her?
Bunny Murphy - Platoon
For years, one look at Kevin Dillon's face made me contort with anger. As a ten year old, I watched Platoon and was horrified with some of the scenes, yet mesmerised simultaneously. One character stuck with me throughout these years from this wonderful war epic, and that is Bunny, the sadistic young Brooklyner played by Kevin Dillon, younger brother of the more famous Matt Dillon.
The infamous village scene in which Bunny smashes the head in of a young amputee in front of his mother with his shotgun is particularly nasty. "I never seen feckin' brains like that before" says Bunny with a grin on his face.
Several years later and I vowed never to watch Entourage because Kevin Dillon was in it, purely because of his turn as Bunny Murphy, yet due to an error trying to download Pacino's Dog Day Afternoon, which turned out to be an episode of Entourage which I immediately fell in love with, my tune has changed and I can honestly say my Kevin Dillon hating days are over, but evil Bunny sticks with me.....
Mortimer Duke - Trading Places
Quite simply the more wicked of the two tycoon brothers, Don Ameche played the part of the younger Duke after several years out of the limelight as an actor. In this classic tale of rags to riches, Mortimer is the instigator of the bet with his older sibling Randolph to jeopardize the life of Louis Winthorpe and replace him with the street-urchin Billy-Ray Valentine.
In two significant moments in the movie condusive to the character's wicked ways, the ever-gentlemanly Ameche apologised to every black crew-member after filming the scene where he refers to Eddie Murphy's Valentine as 'a nigger' and also apologised to every female crew-member after saying the words 'feck him' when Ralph Bellamy's Randolph suffers a heart-attack.
Although it does beg the question, earlier in the movie when Valentine enquires if Mortimer and Randolph are 'a couple of old faggots', how come they were both seemingly unmarried and into housing young, black men off the street? Hmmmm...
