Chewing The Scenery / Live-Action Films

• Pervasive during the silent film era. Justified in that, because audiences couldn't hear them speak, actors relied on exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to convey emotion.
• Forrest Gump to Jenny, as she's about to leave with her radical lefty boyfriend:
  Forrest: You know what I think? I think you, should go back, to Green-Bow, AL-A-BAM-A!
• The waitress in Maximum Overdrive: "WE MADE *YOU*!!!"
• It may be easier to list who doesn't in Pirates of the Caribbean.
• Star Trek:
  • Kirk's infamous "KHAAAAAAAN!" scream in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. In fact, William Shatner has one of these at least every five minutes, in everything he's ever done. The Khan thing is actually deliberate, since, if you remember what happens immediately thereafter (that it was all a ruse to make Khan underestimate them), it's made apparent that Kirk is the one who is acting, not Shatner.
  • Meanwhile, in Star Trek (2009).....
    SPOOOOOOCCCCCCKKKKKKK!!!!!
    FIRE EVERYTHING!
    I WANT SPOCK DEAD NOW!!!
  • Star Trek Into Darkness:
    • Brought back, where the one to do the "KHAAAAAN!" is Spock!
    • Peter Weller hams it up during his Motive Rant. He also Milks the Giant Cow during this.
      Admiral Marcus: "War is coming! AND WHO'S GONNA LEAD US?! YOU?! If I'm not in charge, our entire way of life IS DECIMATED! So you want me off this ship, you better KILL ME!"
  • It is also so noticeable in Wrath of Khan because it is, by a long shot, Shatner's most restrained performance with this being the one time he goes rather over the top. (Seriously, watch a bunch of Shatner's other stuff, especially in recent years when he has become essentially a parody of himself, and then watch Wrath of Khan, the subtlety he shows is both brilliant and quite shocking giving Shatner's normal acting style.)
    • What... doyoumean? I....hadthoughtthatShatner'sstyleofactingwasjust....toomuchforthetime. Add movements for more hilarity. Or not.
    • IIIIIIII'MMMMMMM CAPTAIN KIRK!
    • OHH! THE HUMANITY!!!
  • In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Christopher Plummer as Klingon General Chang also does his best to out-ham Shatner. Especially in the climax, when he endlessly quotes William Shakespeare at the top of his lungs, and spin in his captain's chair..
  • "CRY HAVOC! AND LET SLIP THE DOGS OF WAR!"
    McCoy: I'd give real money if he'd just shut up.
  • Averted in Star Trek: The Motion Picture by everyone. But, this aversion is one of the elements that detractors of the movie tend to point to when referring to this film as a cold, flat experience. In such a case, it could be an example of Tropes Are Not Bad.
• Margot Kidder in Full Moon Entertainment's Beanstalk, who gives the characters in Troll 2 a serious run for their money.
• William Atherton as Walter Peck in Ghostbusters (1984) when he demands the arrest of the Ghostbusters after forcibly shutting down the containment unit.
• Alternate Trope Namer via Memetic Mutation: The Monster Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors, whose signature phrase is "Feed Me, Seymour!" played by deep-voiced and enthusiastic Levi Stubbs.
• Mortal Kombat: The Movie has a handful, such as when Sonya gets captured by Shang Tsung:
  "NOOOOO!!!!! PUT ME DOOOWWWN!!!"
• The Matrix
  • Morpheus' speech to Zion in The Matrix Reloaded, although he had good reason to shout as the cave had no PA system.
  • Agent Smith, especially in his final You Have No Chance to Survive speech in The Matrix Revolutions.
• Mel Gibson in many movies, especially all the FREEEEEDOOOOOM!!s
• Al Pacino in The Devil's Advocate. Practically his whole performance, but especially the line "God... is an absentee landlord!"
  • Not to mention his final Big "NO!", which is so massive it basically causes the movie to implode on itself.
  • Many, MANY Pacino movies qualify. The final shootout in Scarface (1983) comes to mind.
• Marlon Brando's cry of "STELLaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" in A Streetcar Named Desire. Parodied on Seinfeld with Elaine Benes. Among other places.
• Dennis Hopper's character in Blue Velvet, Frank Booth, provides one of the scarier example of this trope.
• A review of Jeremy Irons in the horrid Dungeons & Dragons (2000) film commented he was chewing so much scenery they had to rebuild the sets twice.
• Most James Bond villains, actually.
  • Yaphet Kotto in Live and Let Die.
  • Christopher Walken as Max Zorin in A View to a Kill.
  • Jaws. Literally.
  • Who can forget Boris Grishenko from GoldenEye? I AM INVINCIBLE!!!
  • And Jonathan Pryce in Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • Points have to be given to Steven Berkoff as General Orlov in Octopussy through combining this with the speech patterns of William Shatner and a ludicrously over-the-top Russian accent to turn a simple military briefing into a gloriously hammy rant against Western decadence and spinelessness, not to mention calling out his top colleague as a coward for not following his maniacal plan.
    • This is actually fairly standard for Berkoff. His whole idea of theatre is that it has to be overstated, over the top acting.
  • Toby Stephens chews the scenery so hard in Die Another Day, you'd think the film was his dental records! Props for never actually shouting or overtly cheesing it up, merely portraying a parody of the snooty upper-class British man he's supposed to be disguised as.
• King Leonidas in 300. And yes, we know what this is, thank you.
  • Blasphemy? Madness? Athens?
  • NO!
• Daniel Day-Lewis in every movie he stars in.
  • There Will Be Blood:
    • "I. Drink. Your. MILKSHAKE! *slllluuurrrrrpppp!* There Will Be Blood I DRINK IT UP!!"
    • "I'VE ABANDONED MY CHILD!!!! I'VE ABANDONED MY BOY!"
    • "BASTARD IN A BASKET! BASTARD IN A BASKET!"
    • "DRAAAAIIIINAAAAGE!"
  • The Crucible:
    • "BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAME! Because I cannot have another in my liiife! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAME!"
    • '''SHE'S! A! WHOOOOOOOOOOOORE!!!!"
    • I SAY GOD IS DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAD!
  • Gangs of New York:
    • "What'll it be, boys? RIB OR CHOP? LOIN OR SHANK?"
  • Last of the Mohicans:
    • "You STAY ALIVE! I WILL FIND YOU. No matter how long it takes, no matter how faaaar!"
• Star Wars:
  • Darth Vader's Big "NO!" at the end of Revenge of the Sith. Also added to the Blu-ray release of Return of the Jedi, in the scene where Palpatine tries to electrocute Luke, to the chagrin of much of the fan base. One even parodied it in a YouTube video.
  • In general, Ian McDiarmid gives a relatively subdued performance as Palpatine. But once the charades are dropped in episode 3, and the Jedi know he's a Sith lord, it's time to wolf down the scenery like there's no tomorrow. This is the real reason most of the movie was CGI: he devoured all the sets!
    • "POWWWWWWAAAAAHHHH!!!! UNNNNN-LIMITED..POWWWWWWAAAAAAHHHH!!!! "
    • Playing bumper cars with the Galactic Senate boxes while cackling like a loon has to count, too.
  • Luke during the entire Luke, I Am Your Father scene. "He told me enough! He told me you killed him! (...) No... that's not true! That's impossible! (...) NOOOOOOOOO! noooooo..."
  • Many of Anakin's lines in Attack of the Clones are either this, garbage, or just plain normal, depending on your point of view. But a special mention goes to his confession on Tatooine:
  I... I killed them. I killed them all. They're dead. Every single one of them''. And not just the men, but the women, and the children, too. They're like animals, and I slaughtered them like animals! I ''hate'' them!
  • Armitage Hux's big speech in The Force Awakens. It's like he walked up to one of the cameras, yanked the film right out of it and proceeded to gnaw and chew the shit out of it for over two minutes.
• Any time Harvs and Batsy are within a hundred feet of each other in The Dark Knight turns into this. (One expected them to break out the Big "NO!", but NOOOOOO...)
  • Well, Harvey did, Batman was just a little late for it.
    • Just about any time Harvs or Batsy got pissed off in the second half of the movie.
    • It's not about what I want, IT'S ABOUT WHAT'S FAIR!!!
  • What do you believe in, huh? WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IN?
  • WHHHHHHERE IZZZZZZHEE?!
• Tim Burton's Batman (1989) features Jack Palance, well, being Jack Palance. Not to be outdone, Jack Nicholson lampshades this in-universe, and actually out-hams him, when he borrows one of his lines.
  Joker: "BOB-UH! YOOOOU! ARE MY NUMBER! ONE! GUY!"
• Batman & Robin has it whenever Poison Ivy or Mr. Freeze are on screen.
  What killed the dinosaurs? THE ICE AGE!!
• As Ebert's Bigger Movie Glossary notes, "no Nicolas Cage movie is complete without the scene in which Cage's character finally loses his temper and screams at the top of his lungs."
  • The Wicker Man (2006). All of it.
    "OH, NO! NOT THE BEES! NOT THE BEES! AAAAAHHHHH! OH, THEY'RE IN MY EYES! MY EYES! AAAAHHHHH! AAAAAGGHHH!"
    "'''MURDER! THIS IS MURDER!!! YOU'LL ALL BE GUILTY!!!'''"
    "How'd it get burned? HOW'D IT GET BURRRRNED?"
    "KILLING ME WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GODDAMN HONEY!!!"
  • Knowing:
    "YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!? *thonk*
  • Moonstruck:
    "I'VE LOST MY HAND!!! AND I'VE LOST MY BRIDE!!!"
  • When he incarnates Castor Troy in Face/Off : "Ha HA HA HA HA Ha!"
  • In fact, every time he plays a dangerous lunatic.
  • As Big Daddy in Kick-Ass he mimics the speech pattern of Adam West.
  • Perhaps the most over-the-top performance in his entire career comes in Vampire's Kiss, in which he portrays a vampire or a paranoid schizophrenic or possibly both.
    "YOU'RE FIRED!!!!"
    "I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE! I'M A VAMPIRE!"
  • Or in Deadfall, where he often gets incomprehensibly hammy and ends up singlehandedly making the movie worth watching because of it.
    "WHAT AM I, A FUCKING RETAAARD, MAAAN!? AM I A FUCKING RETAAAARD, HUUUH!?"
  • Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
    "HE'S SCRAPING AT THE DOOR! SCRAPING AT THE DOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHHHH!!"
  • Even National Treasure, which features Nic as the otherwise level-headed Ben Gates, includes a scene where he gets to go completely bonkers: With Ben and Riley's plan to get part of a treasure map out of Buckingham Palace in jeopardy, Riley encourages Ben to make a scene, and boy does he ever!
  • Matchstick Men:
    "Hey have you ever been dragged to the sidewalk and beaten till you PISSED... BLOOD?!"
  • Nic Cage in general, frankly.
• In Serenity, any scene where River has a mental breakdown. Especially when she collapses in the streets of Miranda, screaming a frantic prayer in Chinese.
• Sharon Stone's performance in Casino isn't looked too fondly upon now because it frequently involved this. Roughly the entire last third of the movie seems to involve her screaming at either Robert De Niro or Joe Pesci about something.
• Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick (most notably in his speech about women towards the end). But, hey, what did you expect? It's Jack Nicholson playing the freakin' Devil.
• Charlton Heston's performance in Planet of the Apes:
  You cut up his braaaaaaiiiinnn!
  It's a madhouse! A MAAADHOUUUSE!
  YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! GODDAMN YOU! Goddamn you all to hell!
  • Really, any of his performances, from The Ten Commandments (1956) to Earthquake.
• Soylent Green: "You tell everybody. Listen to me, Hatcher. You've gotta tell them! Soylent Green is people!"
• Brian Cox in Troy certainly qualifies. Then again, Brian Cox in almost anything. That man is definitely not kosher.
  "I will smash their walls to the ground! HEAR ME, ZEUS!"
• The Lord of the Rings
  • Cate Blanchett as Galadriel in The Fellowship of the Ring showing why giving her the Ring is a bad idea: "In place of a dark lord, you would have a QUEEN! NOT DARK BUT '''BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE AS THE DAWN! ''TREACHEROUS AS THE SEA! STRONGER THAN THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH!''''' ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!"
  • John Noble chews the scenery while munching on everything remotely edible in The Return of the King. And he has atrocious table manners.
• When Pink in Pink Floyd The Wall decides that he is a British fascist leader and sings "In the Flesh". Just watch as a rock star (Bob Geldof) playing a rock star (Roger Waters) during an insane fantasy of being a fascist dictator while in front of an audience of Pink's rock fans during a concert.
• Jim Carrey's comedic styling. Which is part of what makes the live-action How the Grinch Stole Christmas! so much fun to watch. Green eggs and ham, indeed.
• Certain bites of James "Jimi" Kinstle's performance as Norman Osborn (a.k.a. The Green Goblin) in the Spider-Man fan film The Green Goblin's Last Stand. As may be expected from a classically-trained actor playing a homicidal maniac, this is genuinely frightening at times. That joke about Osborn being scarier without his mask on? It's true here.
• The last two scenes of the second flashback in The Bad and the Beautiful got this from Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner respectively.
• The saving grace of Daredevil was a delightfully over-the-top portrayal of Bullseye by Colin Farrell. He barely speaks and rarely raises his voice, but his snarling, twitching, and whispered ramblings chew the scenery in a big way. He kills people with pencils, peanuts, and paper clips in scenes that cross the line into Comedic Sociopathy. Just about every scene he's in is simultaneously hilarious and disturbing because of his overacting juxtaposed with the sadistic character.
  "He made me... miss. I never miss!"
• Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance in Kindergarten Cop, a film where he spends half his time screaming incomprehensibly at small children.
  GAAAAHHHH!!!!
  SHADDUUUUPPPP!!!!!
  IT'Z NAHT!! A TWOMUR!
  Bring your toy back to the CAHHPEHT!!
• UHF "Stupid! You're so stupid!"
• Happens in Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2. GARBAGE DAY! Now a staple of memetic mutations.
• Michael Stephenson in Troll 2. Has to be seen to be believed.
  They're eating her! And then they're gonna eat me! OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!
  "And you can't piss on hospitality! I WON'T ALLOW IT!"
  • Also Deborah Reed as Creedence.
  "Think about the CHOLESTEROL! Think about the TOXINS!"
• COME TO ME, SON OF JOR-EL! KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
  • Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor in Superman Returns.
  "WRONG!'''"
  KRRRRYYYYYPTONITE!
  Lois Lane: But millions of people will die!
  Lex Luthor: BILLIONS! Once again, the press underestimates me.
• And Cabin Fever has an example of chewing the scenery in a literal sense, PANCAKES!
• NOOOO...WIIIIREEEE.....HAAAAAANGGGEEERRRRSSSSS!!!!
  • Because I am NOT one of you FANS!
  • Tina! Bring me the ax!
  • The Variety review of Mommie Dearest stated: "Dunaway does not chew scenery. Dunaway starts neatly at each corner of the set in every scene and swallows it whole, costars and all."
• Gary Oldman in Leon/The Professional:
  "Bring me everyone."
  "What do you mean "everyone"?"
  "EVERYONE!"
• Street Fighter: Raúl Juliá makes quite a exit from acting in his last role, and is the best thing in it:
  M. Bison: Something wrong, Colonel? You come here to fight a madman, and instead you found... a god!? You still refuse to ACCEPT... my godhood?! KEEP your own god! In fact, this might be a good time to PRAY to Him! For I beheld Satan as he FELL FROM HEAVEN! LIKE LIGHTNING!!!
• The Producers:
  • Leo Bloom without his blue blanket.
  • FAT!
  • Gene Wilder in the original.
• Adolf Hitler's Villainous Breakdown in Downfall. Bruno Ganz's scenery-chewing has become a Memetic Mutation thanks to the Gag Subs applied into it. For example, Hitler gets banned from Xbox Live.
• Woody Harrelson's DELICIOUS turn as a mad conspiracy theorist in the new 2012 movie practically screams this trope.
  • Well, Woody Harrelson, right there.
• Hans Conried as the villainous Dr. Terwilliker in The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T.
  "Should you wish to escape: THE BARBED WIRE ON THE FENCE IS ELECT-RIFIED!! Mwahahahaha!"
  "I want him disintegrated: ATOM... BY ATOM!"
• Captain Rhodes in Day of the Dead (1985):
  'I'M RUNNIN' THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!!'

  CHOKE ON 'EM!!!
• Zadok, the drunken old sea dog in Cthulhu (2007).
  "They came out of the sea AND KILLED LOTS OF PEOPLE!"
• Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory had Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka:
  "It's all here, BLACK AND WHITE, CLEAR AS CRYSTAL! YOU STOLE fizzy lifting drinks! You bumped into the ceiling which now has to be washed and sterilized, so you get... NOTHING! You LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!"
  • In fact, any time Gene Wilder freaks out and/or loses his temper in a film, so much so that his face goes reddish purple. Will & Grace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6WxmAAvpCc
  • Gene Wilder period. "ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!" "THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE!"
• Or Antonio Banderas in Assassins. He's quite hammy to begin with, but he chews the scenery in such a way that it gained the status of being the Ensemble Dark Horse.
  "YOU BLEW IT!!! I AM STILL ALIVE!!! HAHAHA!!!"
  • Best bit is when he is sharpening his marksmanship skills by shooting fruit and he turns to an orange that he has beside him : "Ha Ha Ha! I just killed YOUR BROTHER!'
• IT WOULD TAKE A THOUSAND OF YOUR TINY MEALS TO SLAKE MY GIGANTIC APPETITE!!!
• Battlefield Earth is a Universe of Ham, but Jonnie "Goodboy" Tyler and Terl are easily the biggest scenery chewers.
  • Jonnie: (to his tribemates) Has anyone here ever seen one? (prances around them excitedly) A demon... a monster... a beast! YAAAAAAH!!!
  • Terl: (to Ker) While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME, I... was being trained... TO CONQUER GALAXIES!!!
• The entire film of Doubt. Case in point, the Confrontation scene "YOU HAVE NO RIGHT!!" or "I HAVE MY CERTAINTY"
• Anything with Jack Palance in it. If Tim Burton's impersonation of the man on Batman's commentary track is any indication, the man chewed as much scenery in real life as he did on celluloid!
• Jurassic Park, near the beginning: SHOOT HA! SHOOOOT HAAAA!
• Satoris, the evil cult leader from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, The Final Sacrifice, is very fond of chewing scenery (and spitting it out again).
• Prince John, Robin Hood (2010): I declare him, to be an OUTLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!
• Dr. Strangelove. Most of ... well, Strangelove himself's lines.
  • Animals... vill be brred... and SLAUGHTERED... HAAAAAA! (wrestles with own arm) MEIN FUHERER! I CAN WALK!!!
  • George C. Scott was forced to ham it up to unbelievable levels, which he himself HATED. The director most frequently chose these takes, and the actor was outraged.
  • Stanley Kubrick actually tricked Scott into doing this (as General Buck Turgidson). For each scene he told Scott to go completely over the top in the first few takes, before playing it straight in the later ones, promising to not use the earlier, wilder ones. (He lied.)
• Brad Pitt plays a total loon in 12 Monkeys.
• Pitt gobbles the scenery a few times in Interview with the Vampire, particularly when Louis' manor is on fire.

  This place is cursed... DAAAAAAAAAAAAAMNED!!!!

• Bill Murray actually shouts out "Feed me, Seymour!" at the end of the movie Scrooged to encourage the theater audience to respond to his hilariously over-the-top ad-libbing throughout the film, most notably in the dinner sequence.
  Frank: (thinks he sees a ghost) AH-HAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!
  Waiter: Oh no sir, that's the Baked Alaska, sir, that's a dessert.
• The Addams Family was all about this; between Raúl Juliá and Christopher Lloyd there wasn't a set unchewed.
• Nick Nolte:
  • Nick Nolte's character in Lorenzo's Oil crying and wailing hysterically over the numerous side effects of his son's illness.
  • And he does it pretty frequently in Hulk (2003), with the scene pictured above being his ultimate moment.
  Honest Trailers: And Bruce Banner's father, who's either an unpredictable Mad Scientist or just Nick Nolte wandering onto the set and being himself for a few hours.
• Inglourious Basterds:
  "TEDDY FUCKIN' WILLIAMS HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK!!!!! Fenway's on it's feet for Teddy!!! FUCKIN' BALL GAME!!!!!"
• Tom Hardy in Bronson: almost the whole scene with the librarian. (Quicker, quicker, QUICKER, QUICKAH!, QUICKAH!, FUCK OFF! SIT DOWN! Awesome, believable and completely justified.
  • Also the lip sync of 'When I'm a RAHCK AND ROWLLLLLLL STAAAAH!'
• Tom Hardy in Legend (2015) as mentally unstable gangter Ronnie Kray.
  Ronnie: A SHOOTOUT, RIGHT, IS SUPPOSED TO BE A FUCKING SHOOTOUT! Like a Western! WANKERS!
• The 1996 William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, main offenders Harold Perrineau and Leonardo DiCaprio. This makes Mercutio's death unintentionally hilarious.
• Robert Mitchum as the crazy industrialist in Dead Man. He spends most of his time "talkin' to a goddamn bear" or hiding behind his desk, shotgun in hand.
  "SHUT UP! Mah boy is dead! Oh, I ain't askin' this time. I'm tellin'. And if somebody don't like it, I'm prepared to do a little killin' of my own! (later) I want this out over the wires. Post a $5000 reward from here to hell and back. Bring everybody in. I want that bastard's head. And make sure you include a full description of my Pinto. I want that horse back.
• Sure, Masters of the Universe was pretty bad, but Frank Langella as Skeletor sure did chew himself some scenery, especially in this scene.
  Skeletor: Now. I, Skeletor, am Master of the Universe! YES! Yes... I feel it, the power... fills me. YES, I feel the universe within me! I am... I am a part of the cosmos! The power flows... Flows through me! Of what consequence are you now? This planet, these people. They are NOTHING to me! The universe is POWER! Pure, unstoppable POWER! and I am that force! I am that power! KNEEL BEFORE YOUR MASTER! Fool! you are no longer my EQUAL! I am more than man, MORE THAN LIFE! I... am... a... GOD! Now. You... will... KNEEEEL!!!!!
• Bram Stoker's Dracula has Keanu Reeves in his usual mode... but this is redeemed by Anthony Hopkins as Doctor van Helsing, particularly when he actually roars "Feed me!" for an unintentional invoked trope.
• Willem Dafoe in The Boondock Saints:
  • "THERE WAS A FIRE FIGHT!!!!!!!!!"
• Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves as the Sheriff of Nottingham was gloriously hammy in his portrayal. His best line was probably (at the end of a long list of canceling donations to various charities) "...and call off Christmas!"
  • ...which was ruthlessly mocked in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights. That movie's Sheriff of Rottingham put a cherry on top by sometimes utterly messing up the word order.
• Herbert Lom as Inspector Dreyfus in The Pink Panther films tends to do this a lot after Inspector Clouseau unwittingly succeeds in pushing him over the edge mentally, especially in The Pink Panther Strikes Again, where he plays an Evil Overlord.
• Paul Giamatti as King John in Ironclad. "YOU DARE TO QUESTION MY REIGN!!!!"
• John Turturro in Anthony Hopkins' confusing art flick Slipstream, playing a over the top growling, insane producer who is sidesplittingly funny as well and this a year before Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. In one scene, he loses it with the director when he brings his child to the filming and almost nearly attacks him like a wild animal. I don't know if it was ment to be this way or if Tuturro was just hamming it up big time, though he would be in competition with Christian Slater, who literally dies of overacting in the movie as the actor playing a menancing gangster along with Jeffrey Tambor who is at least subtle about it. Though in Slater's case it might just be that the script called for his chewing the scenery.
• Crispin Glover in River's Edge, where he plays a cokehead who acts like the dark side of George McFly, complete with stuttering threats and nervous chatter.
• Reb Brown in almost anything he does, complete with over the top yelling at the top of your lungs acting style like most 80s action stars, his highlight though would be Space Mutiny with lines such as
  "SON OF A BITCCCCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
  "LEEEEAAA WAAATTTCCHHH OOUUUUTTTT!"
  "AHHHHAAAHAAAAAA"
  "C'mon MOOOVVEEE, MOOOVVEEE,MOOVVVEEE, MOOOVVVVEEE,MOOOVVVEEE!"
  "Let's get out there and KICCCKKK SOOMMMEEE ASSSSSS!"
• And in another movie called Strike Commando after a little kid dies he screams the villians name like this
  "JAAAAAKKKAOODDDDAAAAA!"
• That Tom Riddle fellow in the Harry Potter films. In every. Single. Scene. He consumes more scenery than unicorn blood. All of Voldemort's portrayers have their moments, but Ralph Fiennes especially. He even has videos dedicated to the anticipation of his most hammiest of moments on Youtube.
  • TROLL IN THE DUNGEON!!!!!
• Ever After: Everyone is occasionally (probably consciously, due to the quick changes between humor and seriousness) guilty of this, child!Danielle in particular.
  • Honourable mention to Marguerite who throws a full-blown temper tantrum with stamping and screaming and yelling in front of the Queen of France.
  • "I would rather die a thousand deaths than SEE MY MOTHER'S DRESS ON THAT SPOILED! SELFISH! COW!"
• The scenery literally fell apart when Tobey Maguire starts wrecking the kitchen in Brothers. See it here. (1:07 onwards)
  • YOU KNOW WHAT I DID!!!!????
• Sir Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast: "You're the problem! You're the fuckin' problem you fuckin' Doctor White honkin' jam-rag fucking spunk-bubble! I'm tellin' you, Aitch, you keep lookin' at me I'll put you in the fuckin' ground, promise you!"
• "I WAS FROZEN TODAY!
• Transformers: "I ... AM... MEGATRON!!!
• The DVD Commentary for Priest (2011) mentions that many of Karl Urban's scenes seem to exist for the purpose of letting Urban chew scenery.
• Marvel Cinematic Universe:
  • Iron Man: TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
  • Tom Hiddleston as Loki in Thor and The Avengers singlehandedly accounts for approximately 70% of the scenery-chewing in those movies.
    Loki: TELLLL MEEEE!!!
    
    Loki: Kneel before me. I said... KNEEL!!!!
    
    Loki: THIS is my bargain, you MEWLING QUIM!
    
    Loki: I am a GOD, you dull creature!
  • Loki's extensive chewing is to be expected, though, seeing as his father Odin (played by Anthony Hopkins) does some extreme chewing of his own.
    Odin: You are unworthy of these realms... You're unworthy of your TITLE... YOU'RE UNWORTHY!!!
    Loki: Father...
    Odin: HYAEEERGH!
  • Brother Thor also gobbles much scenery, mixing fancy vocabulary.
  • In one of the Hilarious Outtakes of The Avengers, Cobie Smulders' Maria Hill does a Comical Overreacting to Agent Coulson's death that must be seen to be believed.
  • Guardians of the Galaxy: Ronan the Accuser doesn't so much as chew the scenery as maul and raven it to bloody pieces. Lee Pace recalled once how he would keep glancing back to James Gunn to tell him when to dial it back, while Gunn just kept going "more, more." The final product, when Ronan is really allowed to cut loose, is a screaming fanatic who manages to make Thanos look subtle by comparison:
  Ronan: YOU CALL ME BOY! I will unfurl one-thousand years of Kree justice on Xandar, and burn it to its core!
  • The villain of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the High Evolutionary, is somehow even hammier than Ronan. Chukwudi Iwuji plays the High Evolutionary as a snarling egomaniac prone to fits of explosive anger, particularly toward the end; during his Villainous Breakdown, Iwuji is screaming with such passion you can literally see the spit flying from his mouth.
  "YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION! NOTHING MORE THAN A STEP ON MY PATH, YOU FREAKISH LITTLE MONSTER! HOW DARE YOU THINK YOU ARE MORE, 8-9-P-1-3?!!"
• Watch Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer munch away on the beautiful Russian country side in The Last Station.
• Almost everyone in Judge Dredd, especially when pronouncing the word "law"/"lauwh"/"lllaaaawww". The most notable is probably Armand Assante's notorious delivery.
• David Johansen really chews up the scenery in Tales from the Darkside: The Movie. Even when a cat is crawling down his character's mouth, he manages to keep chewing the scenery.
• Virtuosity: Russell Crowe is a one-man feeding frenzy.
  "Hey buddy! How's the wife and kid? Still dead, huh?"
• While everyone in Jupiter Ascending is having some fun with the script, no one is chewing more scenery than Eddie Redmayne. Most of the time, he speaks in a hoarse whisper... Until things start going downhill, and then he breaks out the shouting.
  Balem: I CREATE LIFE!!!!!
  Balem: And... I... destroy it.
• The Rocky films give us the wonderful Burgess Meredith as Rocky's trainer Micky, who appears to be a wizened vegetable magically granted life, on the sole proviso that he devour scenery wherever it may present itself.
  Micky: He's a WRECKIN' MACHINE!
  Micky: GEDDUP, YOU SONOFABITCH!...CAUSE MICKY LOVES YA!
• Cleopatra Jones has Snake, a heroin dealer who wavers between badass pimp and yapping puppy from line to line.
• In The Christmas Tree, when Mrs. Mavilda is firing Judy, she chews it so hard that the voice actress's mic almost blows out.
• NO! Don't go in there! You don't have to die! No one has to die at 30! You could live! LIVE! Live, and grow old! I've seen it! She's seen it!
• Richard E. Grant takes scenery chewing to a whole new level in Hudson Hawk. "What can I tell you? I'm the villain!"
• An over the top hilarious moment in 22 Jump Street happens when Jenko finds out the the person Schmidt had sexual relations with was none other than Captain Dickson's daughter.
  Jenko: OHHH SHIT! OHHH SHIT! [laughs hysterically] OH SHIT! NO! That is NOT happening right now! NO! [yells to everyone in the room] HEY Y'ALL, HE'S FUCKING THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! YO!
  Dickson: Every time...he say that shit...
  Jenko: OH MY FUCK!
  Dickson: That's another foot in your ass!
  Jenko: Schmidt! You clearly- Oh this is the best thing ever! [laughing hysterically] SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! [dancing and chanting] SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SCHMIDT FUCKED THE CAPTAIN'S DAUGHTER! SHIT! FUCK! [still laughing] YOU FUCKED CAPTAIN DICKSON'S DAUGHTER?! CAPTAIN! WHAT THE- YOU BRAGGED TO HIM TO HIS FACE! TO HIS ACTUAL FACE! CAPTAIN- Do you understand that this face, Right here, you bragged to that face? You actually high-fived Schmidt for fucking your daughter! HOLY SHIT! OH MY GOD! THIS IS- [noticing Dickson's unamusement] It's really not that funny.
• Young Frankenstein - the whole cast. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, is as far over the top as one could imagine. Then there is Gene Wilder in the title role, whose performance is so melodramatic and madcap that it must be seen to be believed.
  Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: I am a scientist, not a philosopher! You have more chance of reanimating this scalpel than you have of mending a broken nervous system!
  Medical Student: But what about your grandfather's work, sir?
  Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: My grandfather's work was doodoo! I am not interested in death! The only thing that concerns me is the preservation of life! [jams the scalpel into his leg, lets go of the scalpel and it sticks upright out of his leg, grasps it again, then slowly crosses his legs to block the scalpel from view]
• As expected when one of the best dramatic actors of his generation plays Dr. Zachary Smith, Gary Oldman dines defiantly while delivering his delectably devilish dialogue in Lost in Space. Scintilatingly scrumptious.
• Samuel L. Jackson in... oh, just about everything he’s been in. The man can get loud when he needs to. “WHAT DOES MARCELLUS WALLACE LOOK LIKE?!?!?!?”
• The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll - Paul Massie, as both Jekyll and Hyde; "WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
• Jeff Goldblum does a lot of this in the second act of The Fly (1986), which covers the first few days after his character's Teleporter Accident. Up until then he is an endearing Gibbering Genius. But as a Slow Transformation begins, his behavior slowly changes — first he's talking really fast and even pounding the table in a cafe as he muses over how his teleporter must have purified his body, because why else is he so much stronger and feeling so good? Come a failed attempt to convince his lover to be teleported as well, Goldblum starts chewing the scenery with abandon (with lots of Milking the Giant Cow) as he rhapsodizes over the power of taking a "deep, penetrating dive into the plasma pool" — as she realizes and tells him that the teleportation must have gone wrong because he's acting so oddly. At the climax of the act he rages at her and even punches a wooden support beam into splinters as he tosses her out of his loft/laboratory. (His bellowing "YOU'RE JEALOUS!" is a Running Gag in the Cinematic Venom review of the film.) Now alone, he takes a look at himself in a bathroom mirror, and the mounting reveals of what's actually happening to him see all the rage and scenery-chewing drain away, leaving a trembling, whispering, absolutely terrified man, in the space of a few minutes. Between this and the rest of his work in the film, this was Goldblum's Star-Making Role, proving that this trope can be very good indeed when used skillfully.
• In How to Get Rid of Cellulite, Wojciech Mecwaldowski as Krystian pulls all the stops as the jealous ex in the highly memetic Mistaken for Romance scene. His jittery behavior, bug-eyed expression and Punctuated! For! Emphasis! delivery with an Atomic F-Bomb and Big "NO!" makes the entire scene ridiculous.
• In The Social Network, after Eduardo Saverin founds out that his ownership stake was reduced to near-nothing, he goes ballistic in the Facebook office:
  • First he confronts Mark, who's on his laptop and "wired in", as Sean puts it. Eduardo smashes the laptop.
    Eduardo: How 'bout now, you still wired in?!
  • Then, when Sean lectures him on how Eduardo pretends he runs the company while wearing "his ridiculous suits":
    Eduardo: SOOOOOOO-RRY!! MY PRADA'S AT THE CLEANERS! ALONG WITH MY HOODIE AND MY FUCK-YOU FLIP-FLOPS! YOU PRETENTIOUS DOUCHEBAG!
  • And shortly before security escorts him away, he makes one last threat of Tranquil Fury at Mark:
    Eduardo: And I'll bet what you hated the most is that they identified me as a co-founder of Facebook, which I am. You better lawyer up, asshole, 'cause I'm not coming back for 30%. I'm coming back for EVERYTHING.
• In the Name of the Father: Daniel Day-Lewis puts on a passionate performance as Gerry Conlon with many scenes where he shows extreme rage and sorrow, which is justified, well done and appropriate to show Gerry's plight as a wrongly convicted man.

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