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What do I want? I want every time they think of you they're gonna think of me.
~ Gil Renard revealing his obsession with Bobby Rayburn.

Gilbert "Gil" Renard is the main protagonist of the 1996 thriller film The Fan. Renard is a troubled and dangerous knife salesman who stalks a famous baseball player, named Bobby Rayburn.

He was portrayed by Robert De Niro, who also played Johnny Civello in Mean Streets, Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull, Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy, Louis Cyphre in Angel Heart, Al Capone in The Untouchables, Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas, Max Cady in Cape Fear, Frankenstein's Monster in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Neil McCauley in Heat, Dwight Hansen in This Boy's Life, Ace Rothstein in CasinoLouis Gara in Jackie Brown, Fearless Leader in The Adventures of Rocky and Buillwinkle, Don Lino in Shark Tale, David Callaway in Hide and Seek, Senator John McLaughlin in Machete, Frank Sheeran in The Irishman and William Hale in Killers of the Flower Moon.

Biography[]

Gil Renard is a fan of the San Francisco Giants. It is implied that he was born in New York as the son of a Giants fan, who moved Gil and his family to San Francisco to follow the Giants when they moved there in 1958. Renard used to be a baseball player as a child but now he's a knife salesman until he was fired from a job for threatening a prospective customer and divorced father who was banned by his ex wife from not seeing his son and his favorite player was Bobby Rayburn. Like Renard, he was single father of his son Sean. Renard witnesses the fight between Rayburn and his teammate Juan Primo at a sauna. Renard kills Primo so Bobby can be number one player again and get his number back from Primo, and then kidnapped Rayburn's son Sean to blackmail him into returning to the game. He also kills Coop, his old friend and former teammate who is a catcher when he and Coop were twelve years old when they were in Little Leagues, when he tries to help Sean escape before Renard beats him to death with a baseball bat. He wanted Bobby to hit a homerun for him and dedicated the homerun to him. If he does not hit that home run, he will kill Sean. Bobby did hit that home run, not out of the park and it was an inside the park home run. He was shot and killed by police when Renard is about to throw a knife at Rayburn. Before Gil died, he told Bobby where Sean is at, that he is at the big Ballpark in the Sky. Big Ballpark in the sky is a storage room, where Gil leaves all his mementos at and the Rayburns reunite.

Allies[]

  • Richie Renard
  • Ellen Renard (ex-wife; formerly)
  • Tim (formerly)
  • Bobby Rayburn (formerly)
  • Sean Rayburn (formerly)
  • Coop (good friend)

Family[]

  • Richie Renard (son)
  • Ellen Renard (ex-wife; formerly)

Enemies[]

  • Bobby Rayburn (archenemy)
  • Sean Rayburn
  • Tim
  • Ellen Renard

Personality[]

Gil Renard is a troubled baseball fan who supports the Giants, who’s favourite player is Bobby Rayburn, who believes that “baseball is better than life” and wants to teach his son Richie to become a professional baseball player, he wanted to take his son to opening day, but endangered him at a baseball game, which led to him getting a restraining order against him to not go near Richie. Despite this, he is very caring for his son when it comes to baseball, like telling his wife’s partner Tim, that it was not okay that the coach was throwing too hard and almost “taking his head off”, which is the reason why Gil went near his son, to help him get better at baseball, however, his wife runs right at him and tells him to let go of her son, and the reason why is because “he is not going to ruin the rest of their lives”. He is also very ill tempered, like when telling a person at the baseball game to take his hands of him, and when another guy was yelling at him to sit down he says “fuck you”. He also commits a few crimes when his obsession with Bobby Rayburn was going too far, he kills Juan Primo for having the exact same number of Bobby Rayburn, and frames him for the murder, and when talking to Bobby Rayburn in the phone, and Bobby finds primo left shoulder, and Bobby says “Oh my god” startled by what he found, Gil replies back and laughs saying “Boy it’s really true what they say about Sluggers, they are really really stupid” showing that he hated Juan Primo, he kidnaps Sean Rayburn and says that if Bobby does not hit a home run, he will kill Sean. Gil arrives at the baseball game at night pretending to be Bobby’s coach, and argues with Bobby about hitting a home run, and all the players beat up Gil when they find out that he is pretending to be the coach, the police come along and Gil threatens to shoot Bobby, but Bobby tells him not to shoot, so he grabs a baseball bat to kill him, just before he could, he is shot to death by police. Before he dies, he tells Bobby where Sean is, he tells him that Sean is at the stadium in the sky, a storage room where Gil keeps all his momentos. The Rayburns reunite at the end of the movie.

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