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| “ | Once I buried two Arabs in a wall over there... Facing Mecca, of course. | „ |
| ~ Ben's racist remark about murdering and burying two Arab people. |
| “ | If you kill a whale, you get Greenpeace and Jacques Cousteau on your back but wipe out sardines and you get a canning subsidy! | „ |
| ~ Ben |
| “ | [after killing a black man] Here's our golden opportunity to see if that legend about their size is true. Rémy, pull his pants down. We'll know in a jiffy. Good Lord! He's really well hung. You can wrap it up now. It's disgusting. The kid's barely 18 and already hung like a polar bear. | „ |
| ~ Ben humiliating a black teen by having his large penis shown before killing him. |
| “ | You can tan while you make love. When you're through you've got a brown ass. | „ |
| ~ Ben |
Benoit "Ben" Patard is the main protagonist of the infamous 1992 Belgian film Man Bites Dog. He is a charismatic serial killer and snuff filmer.
He was portrayed by Benoît Poelvoorde.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Even though he appeared nice to some of the random people he met throughout the film, this was most certainly just him putting up a friendly facade, so they didn’t suspect him of being a serial killer.
- At the start of the movie, he killed a woman by strangling her with a wire.
- It then cut to him talking to the camera, detailing how to successfully dumb a body in the ocean, while dumping the woman's body.
- He then beat a postman to death and stole his clothes.
- A montage then played, where Ben was seen kill eleven people, ten by gunshot, and one by suffocation.
- He's also seen throwing a body into what appeared to be a lake off a cliff.
- During his conversation about a woman he used to be with, he's seen throwing yet another body into a lake.
- It’s mentioned how when a man was once rude to Jenny, he found the man and murdered him.
- He shot the night watchman at a construction site, simply for doing his job.
- He also humiliated the man, by pulling down his pants to show off his genitals, asking if "the rumors were true" because of the man's race.
- He's then seen applying cement to where he hid the body of someone he killed.
- Even though he called the construction site using cement that didn't last long a "dirty trick", this was only because doing this made it harder for him to get away with murder.
- He mentioned how he once buried two Arabic people in a wall on the construction site.
- He tricked an old woman into letting him into her house, only to scare her so she has a heart attack and died, so he could steal her stuff.
- He jumped into a random Taxi and held the driver hostage, forcing him to drive after someone, while shooting at other cars.
- He's then seen shooting the driver in the head, killing him.
- After a man murdered one of the crew, he bludgeoned him to death with his own gun.
- He broke into a family's house and killed all of them, bludgeoning the woman leaving her to convulse on the floor, repeatedly hitting the man’s head over a sink and then snapping his neck and then smothering the child with a blanket.
- After killing the child, he stated this was the second or third child he's killed in five years.
- When the nightingale killed one of the crew on his movie, Ben killed him and the crew of people that were recording him.
- There's a brief montage where he killed a man by repeatedly shooting him in the back, killed a woman by strangling her with a wire and then could be seen dragging away the body of someone he killed.
- He sexually harassed Malou by demanding her to show her breasts to the camera.
- While drunk, he broke into a woman's house, gang raped her alongside his film crew, and forced her boyfriend to watch, he then ended up disemboweling her and murdering her boyfriend.
- At his birthday party, he accidentally killed one of his friends by shooting him in the head and showed absolutely no remorse for it.
- He attempted to kill a postman, but he ended up getting away before he's able to kill him.
- His actions inadvertently lead to his family, Valerie, his crew and himself being killed by the Nightingale's vengeful brother.
- Despite the film making it clear he used to have a wife, his relationship with her was too vague to count as a prevention.
- Even though he had some comical moments, they didn't really detract from his heinousness, and arguably made him more heinous, and go to showcase how he could just casually murder people, without even really thinking about it.
- Even the scene where he’s drunk wasn't really comedy, as it ended with him raping a woman.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely cared about his family, Jenny and Valerie, and was very upset and angry when he found out his family and Valerie were killed.
- Despite not really caring when the crew of the movie were killed by other serial killers, he was genuinely affable towards Rémy, the director of the movie, as he seemed to be the only crew member Ben genuinely liked.
External Links[]
- Ben Patard on the Villains Wiki