Colin Firth
Colin Firth
How many men have stirred our hearts by playing the
calculating, cold, and utterly debauched Valmont in
some big-screen version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses?
Well, three that I can think of, and two of them have
made this list -- our boy Colin ("the thinking woman's
hunk") and Hot Bad Guy Ryan Phillippe, who fulfills the role as a
younger, prettier womanizing rake in Cruel Intentions.
We won't talk about the third guy, because
he's on our Too Evil To Joke About list.
Colin is a force of nature in hot bad goddess land. He reigns in the highest echelons of Hotness, thanks to his legendary work in the BBC's Pride and Prejudice miniseries, but alas, turns out so good in the end as to undo any earlier obnoxiousness in that story. Thankfully, we have Valmont, Milos Forman's take on the de Laclos's novel, to more than make up for it. Here, we have Colin scheming to force a pious young wife to fall in love with him so that he may dump her and revel in his manipulative mastery. Sadly for him, he gets his wish, but oh how we enjoy watching him work for it!
Can anyone turn on the charm fount when they smile the way Colin does? He must practice that dazzling grin in the mirror, because its force of charisma lives on in this Hot Bad Goddess's mind, years and years after seeing Valmont.
(Perfection, really)
(Pretty horrible, but then finds redemption
a tad too late for his own good)
(Let's face it, 18th century clothing is
rather prissy by contemporary standards. Entirely too
much lace.) 
Dandelion
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