Tim Robbins
Tim Robbins
When most people think of Tim Robbins, they think of mild-mannered
librarian Andy Dufresne in The
Shawshank Redemption. Even though we've already provided evidence
that librarians are not necessarily immune from the pull of the Dark
Side (see Anthony Stewart Head), Tim Robbins
broke from his aw, shucks, Good Guy persona in one of his earlier
works, The Player,
in which he played a Hollywood studio executive who gets blackmailed
by a writer.
Sure, it could happen to anyone. Get a job as a major studio executive, blow off a writer with a potentially interesting script, get blackmailed by the writer, go nuts and drown him in a pool of water, seduce the writer's girlfriend and get away with the whole thing. Is he evil? Well, I'm sure there would have been a better way to solve his...er...issues. He guessed murder would be faster. And the fact that he gets away with it, which so few of Our Villains do, makes the whole movie that much more satisfying. He starts off with his position at the studio in jeopardy and ends up better off as a result of his villainy. It just warms the heart.
sure, he's good-looking, but any one of us could break him like a twig
set-ups, crimes of passion, and he gets away with it
dresses a little Too Well
Princess
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