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| “ | Number One, why aren't you in when I f--king told you to be in? Number Two, why doesn't this hotel have phones with f--king voicemail and not have to leave messages with the f--king receptionist? Number Three, you better f--king be in tomorrow night when I f--king call again or there'll be f--king hell to pay. I'm f--king telling you. | „ |
| ~ Waters cursing Ken |
| “ | You need to stick to your principles. | „ |
| ~ Waters' last words |
Harry Waters is the main antagonist of the 2008 black comedy film In Bruges. He is an ill-tempered, foul-mouthed gangster who sends two assassins to kill a priest, with disastrous results.
He was portrayed by Ralph Fiennes, who also played Amon Goeth in Schindler's List, Rameses in The Prince of Egypt, Francis Dolarhyde in Red Dragon, Dennis "Spider" Cleg in Spider, Lord Victor Quartermaine in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Lord Voldemort in the Harry Potter film franchise, Hades in Clash of the Titans, Raiden the Moon King in Kubo and the Two Strings, Professor Moriarty in Holmes & Watson, Barry in Dolittle and Chef Julian Slowik in The Menu.
Overview[]
Waters is a powerful, London-based gangster who hires his old friend Ken and Ken's protege Ray as assassins. Waters has a violent temper and is prone to profane tirades, but lives by a strict set of principles, chief among them never to harm women or children. He is also a family man, with a wife and three children.
"In Bruges"[]
Waters sends Ray and Ken to kill a priest, but the hit goes awry when Ray accidentally kills a young boy who had been in the priest's room. Waters tells them to lay low in the small Belgian tourist town of Bruges, but secretly asks Ken, an old friend of his, to kill Ray for violating his rule against killing children, even by accident.
Waters calls Ray and Ken's hotel, but finds that they are not there. He leaves an angry, profanity-laden message for Ken, ordering him to answer his next call. He then sends another of his henchmen to kill Ray, just in case Ken loses his nerve, but Ray manages to subdue the thug by shooting him in the eye with a blank.
Ken reluctantly agrees to follow Waters' order to kill Ray, but ends up preventing Ray, who is riddled with guilt about killing the child, from committing suicide. Ken buys Ray a ticket out of town, and calls Waters to tell him what he has done. When Waters hears of Ray's escape, he flies into a rage and destroys his telephone in front of his family. He then travels to Bruges and collects a gun from his right-hand man, Yuri, intent on killing Ray himself.
On his way to the hotel, Waters runs into Ken and, over a drink, asks him why he let Ray go. When Ken says that Ray deserves a chance to start over, Waters retorts that, in Ray's place, he would have killed himself rather than live with a child's blood on his hands. Ken pacifies Waters by agreeing to shoot Ray from a distance on top of a nearby tower, but Waters suspects that Ken is going to double-cross him, and pulls Yuri's gun on him once they are halfway to the top.
Ken appears to accept his fate and refuses to fight Waters, and even praises him for his high moral standards. Waters finds, much to his own surprise, that he cannot bring himself to kill his old friend, so he shoots him in the leg to punish him for disobeying orders, and heads out for the hotel to confront Ray. Ken sees Ray and his girlfriend Chloë on the street below, and jumps from the tower to land right in front of them. With his dying breath, Ken tells Ray to take his gun and flee. Just then, Waters finds Ray, and runs after him.
Waters chases Ray into the hotel, but the owner bars him from coming in. Ray convinces Waters to spare the owner, who is pregnant, by promising to jump into the canal below the hotel, where Waters can continue to chase him. Waters agrees, and follows Ray as he escapes on a passing barge. Waters chases Ray through the crowd in a nearby neighborhood where a movie is being filmed and shoots Ray several times, but one of the bullets passes through Ray and kills one of the actors, Jimmy, a dwarf who is dressed as a schoolboy. Believing he has killed a child, Waters is overcome with remorse and commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth.
Trivia[]
- In a deleted scene depicting Harry's youth, he is protrayed by Matt Smith, who also portrayed the T-5000 and Skynet in Terminator: Genisys and Milo Morbius in Morbius.