| NOTE: This page is only about his film incarnation as the original novel incarnation of Casanova was not voted Pure Evil, and thus only the film version of Casanova's info and crimes should be put here. |
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"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | You're here to fall in love, to experience love. But now I need you to listen very carefully, and take what I say very seriously, alright? Don't try to escape. Don't cry out for help. And do not try any of your kickboxing tricks. Now I'll do what I can to help you not break these rules, but if you do Kate, you will really disappoint me. There now. See. That didn't hurt did it? Don't worry. You're with Casanova. | „ |
| ~ Casanova explains his rules to Kate as he is sedating her. |
Casanova (real name: Nicholas "Nick" Ruskin) is the main antagonist of the 1997 film adaptation of James Patterson's 1995 thriller novel Kiss the Girls. He is a serial killer/rapist and the accomplice of The Gentleman Caller while working as a police detective.
He was portrayed by Cary Elwes-while his voice when in his Casanova guise was dubbed by an uncredited Jeff Kober, who also portrayed Eugene Hoff in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. In later airings, he was dubbed by Tony Goldwyn, who also played The Gentleman Caller in the same film.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- As a teenager, he broke into a young woman's, Coty Pierce's house, raped and killed her, as well as her little sister, Carrie, and her mother.
- He kidnapped young women (one of them being Alex Cross' niece, Naomi) whom he would take to his personal prison for them in the woods where he would subject them to months of rape and torture-while helping his partner, The Gentleman Caller, get away with his own crimes. Any women who "broke his rules" which included either fighting, trying to escape, or calling for help where either killed by lethal injection or tied to a tree in the woods and left to die.
- He commits all of his crimes while posing as a police detective.
- He forced Naomi to play the violin whenever he would molest or rape his victims.
- The way he kidnaps Kate McTiernen is particularly brutal-given he moved her fish tank infront of the stairs so she would crash into it when she tries to escape. His plan succeeds and she is severely injured while her fish are killed. He then proceeds to tazor her afterwards.
- While he claims to "love' his women, he later makes it clear that he only takes joy in breaking them down through his acts of rape and torture.
- He sends Alex Cross a card with a picture of Kate's naked body, just to assert his power over his victims as well as the cops.
- When Kate calls for help, he puts something in her food that makes her sick, while attempting to kill her before she escapes from him.
- It's made clear he only sees The Gentleman Caller as useful and doesn't care about him considering he almost shoots him dead for showing interests in his women.
- He and his partner shoot at Alex when he chases them into the woods.
- Once Alex and Kate find his whereabouts and rescue the women, Nick goes over to Kate's house to rape and kill her. He beats her and nearly succeeds in his plans until she overpowers him and handcuffs him to her stove. However, he grabs a knife and slashes her arm open, pulls out the glass tubes, and gets his lighter out-ready to blow them both up.
- When Cross tries to reason with him, Ruskin berates him for not admitting to his "animal self" and taunts him about how he raped Naomi and claims that he got to know her better than Alex did for the past ten days-all the while trying to get Cross to admit he envies him for it.
Trivia[]
- Only the film version of Casanova counts, seeing as to how the book version wanted vengeance for the death of his partner and it's implied he felt some remorse for letting his victims die. There's also the fact that his moral agency is in question due to the implications of Dissociative Identity Disorder. He also has less competition for heinous standards in the films as opposed to the book series.
External Links[]
- Casanova on the Villains Wiki
