Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
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| First appearance | Blue Velvet |
| Portrayed by | Dennis Hopper |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Nationality | American |
Frank Booth is a fictional character and the main antagonist of David Lynch's 1986 psychological thriller Blue Velvet, portrayed by Dennis Hopper.
Booth became one of the best-known villains in cinema. He ranks #36 on AFI's list of the top 50 film villains of all time.
A psychopathic gangster, drug dealer and pimp, Frank is the central figure of Lumberton, North Carolina's criminal underworld. He kidnaps singer Dorothy Vallens' husband and son, holding them hostage to force Dorothy to satisfy his sadomasochistic sexual urges. When he is with Dorothy, he exhibits a kind of split personality: "Daddy", a sadist who beats and demeans her; and "Baby", a child who ritualistically rapes her while begging her to gag him with a piece of blue velvet cloth. His sexual arousal is highlighted by fits of violent rage, enhanced by inhaling an unidentified gas from a tank.
Frank kills Dorothy's husband and cuts off his ear, which is found by college student Jeffrey Beaumont. While investigating the case, Jeffrey spies on Frank abusing Dorothy, and sees that Dorothy actually enjoys being brutalized. Frank catches Dorothy and Jeffrey together days later and forces them to accompany him to the apartment of Suave Ben, his crony who is holding Dorothy's son. Ben lip-syncs a performance of Roy Orbison's "In Dreams", sending Frank into maudlin sadness, then rage. Frank takes Jeffrey to a lumber yard and kisses Jeffrey's face, intimidates him, and then savagely beats him to the overture of "In Dreams". He then beats Dorothy within an inch of her life, and dumps her, naked, on Jeffrey's lawn.
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