20 Most Iconic Villain Introductions In Movie History

10. Anton Chigurh - No Country For Old Men

For many fans, the Coen brothers went through something of a dip in quality beginning in the early 2000s - while films like Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading certainly weren't awful (although The Ladykillers remake was seen as an unnecessary misfire for fans of the original) they didn't live up to Coen greats such as Fargo, The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona. Their 2007 adaptation of No Country For Old Men, then, was a welcome return to form. A cat-and-mouse thriller in which a regular guy (Josh Brolin) stumbles across a load of cash in the aftermath of a drug deal gone very wrong, it co-stars Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh, a truly dead-eyed psychopath who almost seems larger than life, as if propelled forwards by some dark spiritual force. No Country For Old Men picked up four well-deserved Oscars including Best Picture - and of course, Bardem won Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK9LHlCJKqI