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| “ | 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-crime thriller film Ricochet.
He is a notorious criminal, whom rookie cop Nick Styles put in jail in 1984, causing the latter to developed an obsessive and spiteful hatred towards Nick, as well as becoming his most greatest foe. Seven years later, after learning that Nick is now an Assistant District Attorney, Blake, along with his right-hand man Kim, escapes from prison to get revenge on Nick by trying to turn his life into a nightmarish living hell.
He was portrayed by John Lithgow, who also portrayed Burke in Blow-Out, B.Z. in Santa Claus: The Movie, Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, Eric Qualen in Cliffhanger, Jean-Claude in Rugrats in Paris, Lord Farquaad in Shrek, Carter Nix and Carter Nix, Sr. in Raising Cain, Glenn Motch in The Campaign, Arthur Mitchell in Dexter, and Lamar Blackburn in The Accountant.
Biography[]
Blake is a gangster who, in the beginning of the film, goes to meet with other gangsters, seeking to get into the big leagues. He proceeds to kill the other gangsters and take their money before fleeing from the scene, only to be cornered by rookie police officer Nick Styles. Blake takes a nearby woman hostage and Nick takes off his clothes to prove that he has no hidden weapons. Nick turns the tables on Blake by drawing a hidden firearm from his underwear and shooting Blake in the knee, wounding him and allowing him and his right-hand man, Kim, to be apprehended by the police.
Blake is sentenced to prison while Nick goes on to become a full-fledged police officer and later a district attorney, and he becomes obsessed with exacting vengeance upon Nick for ruining his chance to become a big-time criminal. Over the next few years, he forges an alliance with members of the Aryan Brotherhood and plots his revenge on Nick. He finally puts his scheme into motion by killing a parole board member and escaping prison. Afterwards, Blake kills the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in order to fake his own death.
Later, while Kim asks Ferris, an associate of Nick, to light a cigarette for him, Blake puts him to sleep with chloroform, then hangs him in drag to staged it as a suicide for child porngraphy he planted in his briefcase to frame both him and Nick for it. Then, Blake disguises himself as a repairman to go to Nick's house to fool the nanny in order he can create a staged videotape of him trying to hurt Nick's two daughters to make Nick paranoid.
Blake and Kim ambushed Nick, knocking him out cold and taking him to an empty indoor swimming pool. While Styles and Blake compete in arm wrestling, Kim injects Nick with cocaine, incapacitating him. Later, he has Nick tied to a bed and pays a prostitute named Wanda to rape him while he videotapes the encounter in order to create footage that makes the encounter look consensual so he can ruin Nick's reputation. Afterward, When Nick asks him if he's going to kill him, Blake, instead, tells him that he would let him live before knocking Nick out and leaves him on the steps of City Hall, where he's found by authorities.
As just about everyone refuses to believe Nick's claims that he was held captive by Blake (who is believed to be dead), Blake himself proceeds to play psychological games with his hated enemy, further proving to others that Nick isn't quite sane. Nick watches a videotape of Blake entering his daughters' bedroom with an axe, causing Nick to go berserk. Nick goes his daughters' room only to find that they are not there. Nick sees a note that says Blake will coming for his daughters at the park where the play takes place. Nick sees a person, whom he mistakenly believed to be Blake, going on stage. Nick charges and knocks the colaky person to the ground to held him at gunpoint, but the person turns out to be a clown who is in part of a play.
Later, when Nick and his best friend/partner Larry Doyle (one of the few people who believe Nick's claims) investigate the Aryan Brotherhood, Blake lures the two into a trap and fatally shoots Larry before tossing the emptied gun to Nick, causing him to catch it and therefore get his fingerprints on it to framed him.
When Blake and Kim goes to a drag queen bar, Blake watches the news that Nick appears to have loss of sanity and seem suicidal. But it turns out that Nick staged his suicide, with a help of a gang led by his childhood friend, Odessa, to make Blake, who wanted Nick to live a long, miserable life, into a furious rage and make him think that he lost the war. Blake then receives a call from Nick through Odessa, telling him to come to the Watts Towers. He heads to the towers where he finds a tied-up Kim, who chastises him for being used as a tool to Blake's plans and angering Nick; in response, Blake shoots Kim dead. Nick then appears and engages Blake once again in a battle of arm wrestling at the top of the metal towers, this time, angrily impaled Nick's arm on the spike. While Blake tries to cut of the rope hanging on by Nick to make him fall to his death, Odessa and his gang connect the jumper cables to the towers to cause Blake being electrocuted. Then, Nick grabs Blake's foot and thrown him from the tower and lands on a large spike below and impaling him to death, putting an end to Blake's reign of terror, once and for all.
Personality[]
He was a psychopathic, ruthless, and vicious professional criminal and a sadistic assassin. At the beginning, he is just a normal criminal who tries to enter the big leagues. However, when Nick Styles imprisons him, his desire for vengeance drives him into an obsession of destroying Styles's life to the point of pettiness. Probably because of his high-functionning psychopathy, Blake is able to take an impressive facade of natural politeness, as seen with Styles' two daughters while disguised as a power supply man. But most of the time, he is outright evil and rude with everybody he meets, even with his right-hand man Kim, whose he verbally abuses. When the latter has enough of his attitude, he immediatily kills him without remorse. This shows Blake does not care about anyone except himself.
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External Links[]
- Earl Talbot Blake on the Pure Evil Wiki
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