I've a soft spot for Brick Top from Snatch - A proper 70's East End gangster still on top in the new millennium, (I'm assuming the movie is set in the year it was made / released - 2000)
Jack Carter from Get Carter? Tony Montana from Scarface?
There is proberbly many, but of the top of my head there would be Paul Bettany/Malcolm McDowell as Gangster No. 1, Richard Burton in Villan (can't remmember the characters name)and Kakihara from Ichi the Killer (certainly the most flamnboyantly dressed gangster ever!).
Some rather obscure choices there. I don't feel any of those characters threaten the more stable but just as dangerous character of Brick Top. Give Brick Top a couple of underlings and I'm sure your three initial choices would be suffocated by a plastic bag and fed to the pigs.
Coincidentally the characters in Gangster No.1 and Villain both seem to have anger issues about their homosexuality. "I'm not confused I just have these urges sometimes."
And now you come to mention it I can imagine Brick Top having an antiques shop somewhere on the side with some young pretty boy giving him a hand.
Restoring an antique chair is like making love to a beautiful boy, first you smear the seat with oil, then.....
Originally posted by razic: There is proberbly many, but of the top of my head there would be Paul Bettany/Malcolm McDowell as Gangster No. 1, Richard Burton in Villan (can't remmember the characters name)and Kakihara from Ichi the Killer (certainly the most flamnboyantly dressed gangster ever!).
I remember seeing Richard Burton in that film. He plays East End gangster Vic Dakin; a homosexual psychopath who loves his mum!
Yeah, he's a bit of a wild ass aint he. Can't wait to see what he gives in De Niro's new film The Good Shepherd It's his first role in 8 years... Shows how much respect he has for his good friend De Niro!
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