We drew some of the elements of each of these characters together to form the character of the hair dresser.
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille - Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Grenouille was born in a fish market in Paris with hyperosmia, an abnormally strong sense of smell, which eventually leads to him becoming a serial killer. Over the course of the film, Grenouille is taught a method of distillation and the preservation of scents. Since he was born with no scent, Grenouille decides to create the perfect perfume to prove his worth, killing women whom he deemed had the perfect scent and attempting, and failing many times, to capture their scent.
Portrayed by Ben Whishaw
Jame Gumb (Buffalo Bill) - The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Gumb was born in California and abandoned by his mother, then taken into foster care at the age of two. In the movie, Lecter summarizes Gumb's life as so: "Billy was not born a criminal, but made one by years of systematic abuse." Later on in his life, Gumb becomes obsessed with wanting to become a woman but being too disturbed to qualify for gender reassignment surgery. Thus, he kills overweight women so he can skin them and create a "woman suit" for himself.
Portrayed by Ted Levine
Francis Dolarhyde (The Tooth Fairy) - Red Dragon (2002)
Dolarhyde was born in Missouri and abandoned by his mother, then cared for in an orphanage until the age of five when he was taken in by his grandmother, who subjects him to emotional and physical abuse. As a result, he began torturing animals at an extremely young age to vent his anger. Dolarhyde begins his killing spree by murdering two families. He becomes obsessed with the Red Dragon, having a large tattoo of a dragon on his back, and believes that, by killing people - "transforming" them, he calls - he can fully "become" the Dragon. He also has two sets of false teeth; one for his normal day-to-day life and the other, which is distorted and extremely sharp for his killings, in which he earned the nickname "The Tooth Fairy."
Portrayed by Ralph Fiennes
Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936/2007)
Todd is a barber who dispatches his victims by pulling a level as they sit in his barber chair, causing them to fall backwards down a trapdoor into the basement of his shop, breaking their necks or skulls. In case some of his victims survive the fall, Todd goes to the basement and "polishes them off" (slitting their throats with his straight razor).
Portrayed by Johnny Depp
Gollum - The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (2001-3)
Originally known as Smeagol, a hobbit of the Shire, he became corrupted by the One Ring, which he found at the bottom of a river by chance. The Ring, which Gollum referred to as "precious," extended his life for another 400 years. Under centuries of the Ring's influence, Gollum became obsessed with it and after Bilbo Baggins found the Ring and took it for his own, Gollum pursued it for the rest of his life. His obsession is further highlighted at the end of The Return of the King (2003) when he willing fell into the fires of Mount Doom just to be reunited with the Ring.
A CGI character voiced and performed by Andy Serkis
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