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| “ | Don't you look at me! Don't you f-ckin' look at me! | „ |
| ~ Frank Booth |
| “ | I'll send you a love letter... straight from my heart, f-cker! You know what that is? It's a bullet from a f-ckin' gun, f-cker! You receive a love letter from me, you're f-cked forever! You understand, f-ck?! I'll send you straight to Hell, f-cker!! | „ |
| ~ Frank Booth threatens Jeffrey Beaumont. |
Franklin "Frank" Booth is the main antagonist of the 1986 psychological thriller film Blue Velvet. He is a sadistic crime lord who kidnaps nightclub singer Dorothy Vallens' son in order to force her to be his sex slave.
He was portrayed by the late Dennis Hopper, who also played Peter Vollmer in The Twilight Zone, Tom Ripley in The American Friend, President Koopa in Super Mario Bros., Howard Payne in Speed, Deacon in Waterworld, George Struggs in Deadly Creatures, and Victor Drazen in 24.
Personality[]
| “ | Why are there people like Frank? | „ |
| ~ Jeffrey Beaumont wondering why there are people like Frank in the world. |
Frank Booth is an unstable, sadistic, depraved, narcissistic, and overall deranged gangster who treats people surrounding him like playthings. Suffering from a twisted and abusive past, Booth has degraded into an almost inhuman monster who enjoys the suffering of others. His main target of torment is Dorothy Vallens, a singer who is at his mercy as long as he keeps her son and husband as his prisoners. He seems to possess two personalities: Baby and Daddy. Daddy is verbally and physically abusive to Dorothy and has a short fuse. Baby is a perverted man-child who likes to sexually assault Dorothy while sucking on blue velvet. Booth is also addicted to amyl nitrate, where he sucks through a gas mask to disconnect his mind from reality, making him even more unhinged.
Despite his obvious mental insanity, Frank is also a dangerous gangster and crime boss in the town of Lumberton. Murdering his rivals and working with a corrupt police detective shows a level of street smarts that allows him to maintain his position in the criminal hierarchy. This, along with his deeply disturbed mind, makes Booth even more dangerous to those who are foolish enough to go against him.
Like most textbook abusers, he has a high level of paranoia around those who seemingly threaten his authority and his "playthings." When he meets Jeffrey Beaumont, he is immediately suspicious of his intentions and forces him to take a drive with him. Throughout the car ride, he provokes Jeffrey and begins to assault Dorothy in front of him, spurring Jeffrey to give him a punch to the face. This angers him greatly, shouting "Next!" as he and his goons drag him out of the car and begin to beat him up. Threatening to send a "love letter" from himself (meaning a bullet), Frank spares him without a care in the world.
After his organization is exposed and his crimes are revealed, Frank immediately resorts to killing his former allies and connections to cover his tracks. Lobotomizing his police contact and killing Dorothy's husband, his impulsiveness and psychopathy reach new highs as he searches to kill Jeffrey. With some quick thinking using a police radio and a well-timed shot, Jeffrey manages to shoot Frank in the face, finally freeing Dorothy and her son from his control.
Dennis Hopper's performance as the unstable and unpredictable Frank Booth has made the character an iconic villain that still horrifies audiences today. He currently ranks at #36 on AFI's "List of top 50 movie villains of all time."
History[]
Frank Booth is a leading figure in Lumberton, North Carolina's criminal underworld, dealing in drugs and prostitution - gaining more influence by having any rivals murdered and is aided by a corrupt detective nicknamed the "Yellow Man" who steals the drugs from the murdered rivals' crime scenes and secretly hands them back to Booth, thus allowing him to sell them off.
He has a brutal relationship with Dorothy Vallens, a beautiful singer who brings huge crowds into the local nightclub and he gains complete control over her when he kidnaps her son and husband, forcing sexual favors from her by mutilating her husband and threatening to kill her child if she refuses, Dorothy is so abused by Frank that she begins to develop a type of pleasure out of her mistreatment.
Frank Booth inhaling amyl nitrate.
Frank's power is threatened by college student Jeffrey Beaumont, who finds the severed ear of Dorothy's husband which Frank had dropped by accident - Jeffery becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind it and breaks into Dorothy's apartment where he witnesses her being abused by Frank - when he discovers Jeffrey. At first Frank is dismissive and simply beats him up alongside his minions to teach him a lesson but let him walk free.
However, Jeffrey informs the local detective (who happened to be his girlfriend's father) of the incident - the detective warns Jeffrey not to get any more involved, yet Jeffrey didn't take the advice and decides to try and save Dorothy's son after Frank beats Dorothy badly, strips her naked, and tosses her in front of Jeffrey's house. Jeffrey rushes to Dorothy's apartment in hopes of rescuing her son - finding Dorothy's husband tied to a chair, having been shot in the head as well as the Yellow Man, whom Frank has crudely lobotomized (though he was still alive).
Frank would then return to the apartment himself after police raid his home and he overhears Jeffrey calling for help on a police radio. Jeffrey, aware that Frank was coming, deliberately gives the police false information as to his whereabouts, so as to throw Frank off his trail, but this fails.
Death[]
Frank Booth's death.
As Frank arrives at the apartment and kills the Yellow Man and searches the apartment for Jeffrey, Frank is suddenly ambushed and shot dead by Jeffrey, who had managed to take the Yellow Man's gun before Frank stormed the place.
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
| “ | Let's f-ck! I'll f-ck anything that moves! | „ |
| ~ Frank Booth's most iconic quote. |
| “ | Frank Booth: Who are you? Jeffrey Beaumont: I'm... just a neighbor. |
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| ~ Frank Booth meets Jeffrey Beaumont for the first time. |
| “ | Frank Booth: Hey you wanna go for a ride? Jeffrey Beaumont: No thanks. |
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| ~ Frank goading Jeffrey into going on a ride with him. |
| “ | Now it's dark . . . | „ |
| ~ Frank's repeating line. |
| “ | Dorothy Vallens: Hello, baby. Frank Booth: Shut up! It's Daddy, you shithead! Where's my bourbon? Can't you fucking remember anything? |
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| ~ Dorothy and Frank, and his first lines. |
| “ | Hey, neighbor! You shit-for-brains, man! You forgot I have a police radio! One well-dressed fuckin' man knows where your fuckin' cute little butt's hidin'! Stupid fuck! Fuck with me, man! Here I come, ready or not! You fuck! I can hear your fuckin' radio, you stupid shit! You got about one fuckin' second to live, buddy! You're one sorry piece of shit, mister. Hey, pretty, pretty! What the fuck? Where are you? Where are you? | „ |
| ~ Frank as he searches for Jeffrey, and his last words. |
External links[]
- Frank Booth on the Pure Evil Wiki
- Frank Booth on Wikipedia