2. Hugo Weaving The Matrix Films
This ones slightly different, because while Agent Smith was always hammy in the first Matrix, it just exponentially increases throughout the sequels until hes tearing down the walls and elongating his vowels so much you could drive a bus through them. I call this ever-increasing bombast the Mr Anderson effect'. If you watch him in the first instalment, its slightly longer than it could be but you know hes trying to be menacing. However, by the time of Revolutions, its occasionally so preposterously long that you just have to marvel at it before he adds the coup de grace of we missed you, which nobody has ever said with such camp menace before or since. The fact of the matter is that you cant blame Weaving for going completely over the top, especially in the later instalments the films already abandoned any notion of subtlety at this point, so all Weavings doing is racing to catch up with it. There comes a time usually when theres about 400 of your duplicates on screen with you that you just have to throw caution to the wind and engage in some uproarious moustache-twirling. Such a colossal narrative couldnt have succeeded with a regular villain, so dramatic monologues and demented villainy was exactly what the doctor ordered. Much like Pacino before him, Weaving goes right ahead and steals all the Matrix films from under Keanu Reeves feet. It isnt a difficult task to do, but he does it in emphatic, ridiculous style.