Top 10 Christopher Walken Performances

he's the king of quirky cameos boy I sure heard about you buy you welcome to watchmojo.com and today we'll be counting down our top 10 favorite Christopher Walken performances number 10 Whitley Strieber communion this movie is really not very good but you can't have a list of memorable Walken performances without it so why not kick off the list with the weirdest of the bunch I am you Jew me yeah who else but Christopher Walken could mesh so seamlessly with the frightening array of crazy crap that goes on in this movie instead of giving you a strong central character to save you from the weirdness his presence just makes it all the more disturbing number 9 Gabriel the prophecy this supernatural thriller is the perfect example of a film that wouldn't be on anyone's radar without Christopher Walken the 80s and 90s were his heyday when it came to villainous characters and this half terrifying half hammy portrayal of a very angry angel is evil Walken at its most unrestrained you know how you got that dent your top lip way back before you belong that's what it was secret then I put my finger there I said oh and viggo mortensen plays the devil and each walkins hard at the end that's worth the price of admission though number eight Cesar the exterminator mouse hunt you figure that when they wrote the script for this movie they just said okay so the exterminator is rather eccentric well essentially he's Christopher Walken and everyone just understood right away yes to think like a mouse do then if you can think like a mouse you can anticipate their moves ten oh the writers didn't have to go to great lengths to show the audience just how nutso their character was one look into walkins eyes and you know right away number seven mr. Smith nick of time Walken often plays characters with shades of weird but here he proves he can pull off the straight-up bad guy just as easily of course there's a scene scaling walk and speech thrown in for good measure but it's his effortless friendly while threatening demeanor that makes him such a convincing and scary villain that's right I did I killed him he dug one too many times so I put a bullet in his eye then I put two more into him just to make sure no that was somebody I loved I loved him but I got the call I put him down like a sick animal it may not be a role that only he could have played but he definitely adds that special touch to an otherwise straightforward flick number six Johnny Smith the dead zone that crazy look in walkins eyes is used to great effect in this movie he plays a man stricken with haunting premonitions after being hit in the head in this Stephen King inspired tale the story requires a certain morbid weirdness to bring it to life and walkins unhinged persona manages the task perfectly I'm scared Sam number five Don Vincenzo kakari true romance this entire movie is essentially a well written sequence of cameos so it makes sense the head bad guy should be the king of cameos himself Walken steal scenes is a mob boss who was attempting to intimidate the hero's father played by Dennis Hopper not too frightening not too friendly Walken still manages to shine in a film overloaded with familiar faces since 1984 number 4 Frank Abagnale senior catch me if you can the memorable to my story from this globe-trotting adventure is classic Walken two little mice fell in a bucket of cream but there's much more going on here than one quirky monologue at the beginning of the movie you're not sure what to make of Walken's character in fact his sly meanness is off-putting but it's that complexity which makes him such an endearing father figure the scene in which he confronts his con artist son is unexpectedly heartbreaking and is surely why this role got him an Oscar nomination the United States government champ running for the hills ah the moon number 3 Frank white king of New York walk-ins turn as a gangster turned modern-day Robin Hood is a true powerhouse walk in performance if ever there was one while smaller quirky roles have become his trademark more recently this movie proves that in his prime he could carry entire movies on charisma alone from here on nothing goes down unless I'm involved no black jack no dope fields no nothing a nickel bag gets sold in the park I want in he succeeds once again in making a questionably motivated character seem believable which is something a more clean-cut actor wouldn't be able to pull off number 2 captain Koons pulp fiction while this list surely proves that Walken can take on starring roles with ease he's become legendary in recent years for his bit parts and if there was ever one scene that epitomized his rise to the ultimate king of cameos it's this monologue from pulp fiction very serious very stupid and more than a little uncomfortable I hid this uncomfortable hunk of metal up my ass two years classic Walken number one corporal McCain er Nick Java Tata [ __ ] The Deer Hunter we often think of Walken as funny quirky weird but early in his career he was a dead serious actor for The Deer Hunter he consumed nothing but bananas rice and water in order to portray the shell of a man we see at the end of the film here there is no weirdness no bizarre monologue to quote with your friends just a haunting and Academy Award winning portrayal of a man who's beyond saving do you agree with our list we're sure we've left out a few of your favorites so let us know what you think in the comments no that's out of the question it's just not the way I do it

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Keywords: Top 10 Films, Christopher Walken, Oscar, Winner, Cameo, Quirky, Deer Hunter, Mouse Hunt, True Romance, Catch Me If you Can, Communion, Dead Zone, King of New York, Prophecy, Pulp Fiction, Actor, Films, Top 10, Countdown, List

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Length: 6min 26sec (386 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 11 2012