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| “ | It all could have been different, Mr. Walker. You should've allowed nature to take its course. In the end, it will anyway... SO LET ME IN THE F-CKING HOUSE! | „ |
| ~ David to Steven Walker. |
David McCall is the main antagonist of the 1996 psychological thriller film Fear. He is a psychopath who becomes obsessed with his girlfriend, Nicole Walker.
He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg, who later played Daniel Lugo in Pain & Gain.
Personality[]
David is a narcissistic psychopath who doesn't truly care about anyone but himself. He is also afflicted with a comorbid Borderline Personality Disorder as he fears his relationship with Nicole breaking apart for good, and doesn't like her hanging around other guys she likes and is willing to harm anyone she's close to that stands in his way, even her very own father. David is a skilled master manipulator as he uses his charm and good looks to trick Nicole into falling for him and using his friendly façade to trick others into trusting him for his own personal gain. While he tells Nicole that he loves her and would do anything for her, it's ultimately an obsessive lust in the form of emotional instability that drives him this way, as opposed to the true love her father gives her.
He is extremely selfish, incredibly violent, petty, murderous, and obsessive as despite his usual calm demeanor, he gets angry very easily over the smallest of things, and when he doesn't get his way and when someone crosses him or doesn't respect him he ends up doing horrible things. David ultimately doesn't love Nicole as a person and is only aroused by her beauty, body, and charming personality. He also doesn't care about Nicole's feelings and happiness and only his own, and thus doesn't see her as her own person. David's obsession and insanity increased after being rejected by Nicole and threatened by Steven and Gary too many times, and he eventually decides to murder them both. He even tries to harm and possibly kill Nicole after she physically attacks him to save him from killing her father, unable to cope with or understand her betrayal.
Biography[]
David and Nicole meet at a bar, and she is immediately taken by his charm and good looks. They begin dating, and Nicole falls in love with him; however, Nicole's father Steven dislikes him. One night, David sneaks into Nicole's room, and they have sex, with David declaring that he loves her.
David begins showing his dark side soon afterward; when he sees Nicole innocently hugging her friend and classmate, Gary, David beats him up in a fit of jealous rage. Frightened, Nicole tells him to stop, but he shoves her to the ground and gives her a black eye. Nicole breaks up with David, saying she never wants to see him again. David later apologizes, but only to get Nicole back, not truly regretting his actions and behavior. Nicole falls for it and begins considering giving him another chance.
Steven becomes suspicious of David and checks into his background, discovering that he has a lengthy criminal record and a history of violence. Steven orders David to leave Nicole alone, threatening to hurt him if he lays a hand on her again. As Steven leaves, David begins violently hitting his own chest. David later shows Nicole the bruises on his body, convincing her that Steven beat him up, and she fully takes him back.
One night, Nicole witnesses David forcing her friend Margo to have sex with him, only hours after they had made love, but Nicole misinterprets it as a consensual act; nevertheless, she breaks up with him for good, realizing that her father was right all along about his dark side.
David once again responds to Nicole's rejection with violence - he threatens to kill Margo for telling on him, and trashes Steven's car, leaving him a taunting note. Finally, David chases Gary down and breaks his neck, killing him. David follows Nicole to a local mall and corners her in the women's bathroom, insisting that her family is trying to keep them apart. Frightened, Nicole tells Steven about the encounter, and he goes to David's house to confront him. There, he finds David's shrine to Nicole. Enraged, Steven destroys the shrine and trashes the house.
David retaliates by invading the Walkers' home, backed up by his four equally violent friends, and killing the family dog. They tie up Stephen and his wife Laura, Nicole's stepmother, while David orders them not to hurt Nicole. One of the boys nevertheless tries to rape Nicole, but David shoots and kills him in cold blood. David brings Steven to Nicole's room and tells him to say goodbye to her, the implication being that he is going to kill him. As David continues expressing his desire to take Nicole for himself, Laura frees Steven, who begins fighting David.
As David prepares to shoot Steven, Nicole stabs him in the back with the peace pipe that he won for her at a carnival; this moment causes David to finally realize that Nicole truly doesn't love him and attempts to attack her for stabbing him. Steven then resumes fighting David, who pushes him away and then angrily walks over to Nicole, still intending to take her by force once and for all, only for Steven to prevent him from doing so, and Steven eventually wins the fight by throwing David out the window to his death on the rocks below.
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Trivia[]
- David McCall was Mark Wahlberg's first role as a villain and his breakout role. According to Wahlberg, it was Leonardo DiCaprio who suggested Fear director James Foley to cast him as McCall; Foley was reluctant to do so as he didn't know if Wahlberg could act, but upon meeting with him, the two quickly became friends and Foley offered him a smaller part before asking him to read for McCall, convincing him to the point Foley insisted Universal Pictures to hire Wahlberg for the role.
External Links[]
- David McCall on the Pure Evil Wiki