150 Greatest Movie Performances Of All Time

Part one (150-121)

By Total FilmDec 8th 2008

24. 128. Ben Kingsley - Don Logan, Sexy Beast (2000)

From refusing to stub his ciggie (“You want me to cut your hand off and use it as an ashtray?”) to verbally flaying a cringing Ray Winstone (“Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard”), he’s an astonishing vision of rage and neurosis.

“I was able to bring my grasp of language in Shakespeare to him,” says Kingsley, whose sociopathic gangster makes the celluloid strain with tension every time he steps on screen – each sentence, each stare, rigid with the promise of appalling violence.

Kingsley claims he based the character on his grandmother…

Greatest Moment: “No no no no no no no no!”

Also See: Mahatma Gandi (Gandi).

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