|
|
"Mature Content Warning!" |
| “ | WHERE'S YOUR BIG MOUTH NOW, LAWYER? Can't talk with one arm. Let's see you FIGHT with one arm! [...] You can't win! Why don't you give up? | „ |
| ~ Blake taunting Styles while fighting him, also his last words. |
| “ | I mean, there we were, both of us... at the beginning of our careers. Then, all of a sudden, one of us... took off! Lit up the sky like a meteor. And why? Because he met the other. | „ |
| ~ Earl Talbot Blake to Nick Styles. |
Earl Talbot Blake is the main antagonist of the 1991 action film Ricochet.
He is a psychopathic criminal mastermind and the archenemy of Assistant District Attorney Nick Styles, who sent him to prison when he was a police officer.
He was portrayed by John Lithgow, who also portrayed Burke in Blow Out, Dave Crealy in The Rule of Jenny Pen, and Eric Qualen in Cliffhanger.
History[]
This section is too long. Visit here for more details: Earl Talbot Blake's Synopsis on the Villains Wiki.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Was already a hitman before the film.
- Murders a drug dealer and his two henchmen with a shotgun.
- When his client thanks him, he kills him as well in order to take the loot for himself.
- Takes a woman hostage and puts the shotgun barrel against her jaw.
- Still tries to kill Styles after the rookie cop has stripped down to his underwear to show that he's got no weapon on him.
- Develops an obsessive hatred towards Styles, claiming that he ruined his life, even though he completely deserved to be locked up.
- Forms an alliance with the Aryan Brotherhood after killing another inmate with a sword.
- Uses the Aryan Brotherhood to plan an escape during the parole board meeting.
- While it's likely just a taunt, he says he would fuck the chairman's wife, daughter, and dog if released.
- Shoots the parole board chairman in the head.
- During the escape, he shoots the book deliverer that gave him the books that helped him fix his leg while he was in the hospital.
- He also shoots his attorney, quipping "You're fired."
- Betrays the Aryan Brotherhood leader by shooting him in the head and leg and uses him to fake his death.
- Had this planned in advance, even getting Kim to switch dental records.
- Dresses like a technician and fools Styles' nanny into letting him into the house. Afterwards, he drugs their cocoa and uses the time to film a tape of him threatening Styles' sleeping daughters with a hatchet. While he doesn't do anything to them, he still uses said tape to terrorize Styles later.
- Murders one of Styles' associates and plants child pornography at the crime scene in order to make it look like he was a child molester that killed himself out of guilt.
- Kidnaps Styles, drugs him with heroin and cocaine, and pays a prostitute with gonorrhea to rape him, all while filming it in order to use later.
- Shows Styles the video tape of him threatening his children with a hatchet in order to make him paranoid.
- Puts the tape of him being raped by the prostitute on the news and edits an out-of-context conversation that Styles had with a waitress to make it look like a consensual affair.
- Shoots Nick's former police partner, Larry Doyle, to death and frames him for it.
- While he does show concern when Styles is about to fake committing suicide, he only cares because it means he won't be able to hurt him anymore.
- Mistreats his henchman, Kim, and even shoots him to death.
- Impales Styles' arm on a spike while arm-wrestling on top of the towers.
- While Ricochet is a part of the Die Hard universe, Blake stands out for his sheer personal cruelty with Nick, while still also managing to kill a good amount of people with the very little resources that he has got, while also betraying everyone he comes across if it benefits him out of greed.
External Links[]
- Earl Talbot Blake on the Villains Wiki
