Fred (Village of the Giants)

Fred, played by Beau Bridges, is one of the main antagonists of the 1965 film, Village of the Giants.

He is the leader of the group of teenagers turned into giants who end up taking over the town.

Fred and his friends arrive in town after crashing their car nearby, where he and his friends decide to go to ask an old friend named Nancy for help.

He and his friends decide to settle in an old abandoned theater, which they assure that no one visits, then they decide to go to a party that the town was going to have to go dancing, at the party they discover some of the ducks enlarged by a child's formula. called Genius, the group discovers how the ducks got bigger and decide to infiltrate the house to steal the formula and get rich. For this, Fred and one of his friends seduce Genius' brother, Mike and his girlfriend Nancy to get information from them and find out the location, however they are unsuccessful.

However, the next day Elsa meets Genius who ends up revealing the location of his laboratory. At night, Fred and the group steal the formula, however, Pete ends up falling into a trap that draws the attention of Genius and other teenagers, which It ends in a fight between Fred and Mike's groups, but Rick manages to flee with the group with the formula when the plea ends.

After obtaining the formula, Fred and the group discuss what to do with it, although at first they only thought about the money, the group thinks about whether to consume it and grow, although Fred seems reluctant to do so, Fred is encouraged to do so after Rick calls him. chicken and challenges him to prove his own manhood he decides to do it. The group divides the formula for everyone to consume and they grow 30 feet tall, which they end up regretting at first but they quickly decide to take advantage of their new powers, since now no one could stop them and they decide to take over the town, cutting off the power and then going to reveal yourself to the public during the party and dance. Afterwards, Fred proposes to the teenagers at the party that they support them since they are all teenagers who want to take control instead of the adults, but they don't want to because they know that Fred and his friends could become worse than the adults.

When the town Sheriff arrives to put things in order by going to the theater, Fred tries to control the group to keep things peaceful, especially he tries to stop Rick and Merrie who propose to crush him, in the end they go to the theater to rest.

But the next day when the Sheriff and Mike go to the theater and order them to leave town, Fred refuses since he says he really likes the place and Merrie tells him that once Fred wants something, nothing will stop him from getting it. Soon Rick and Pete reveal that they have kidnapped the Sheriff's daughter, something that bothers Fred since they did not consult him, but Merrie tells him that they had to do it to negotiate since she also claims that the Sheriff and the police brought weapons the night before. , to which Fred accepts but still does not like the topic of the kidnapping. After the Sheriff, desperate to get his daughter back, tells them that they will give them anything to have their daughter back, Fred negotiates with him and gives him their demands, which were mostly that they treat adults as if they were children. , with a curfew, giving them the right to speak only when they approved. Just like they always brought him and his friends food to the theater. He immediately orders Mike to bring him some polo which Mike had to reluctantly agree to, then he orders his group to destroy all types of media. The sheriff orders him to return his daughter, but Fred tells him that he will not do it and that he will stay with them and that he better fulfill all of his demands and that way no one would be hurt.

Hours later, Mike and his friends bring Fred and his group food, Fred and Pete mockingly tell him that they are going to put him and his group in charge of the adults, to see that they behave, then he orders them to leave. to do it immediately

The next day Mike and his friends set a trap for Fred where they end up tying him up and pulling him until Pete, who had heard the noise while they were catching Fred, ends up kidnapping Mike's girlfriend, Nancy who is left on the roof of a church and Pete threatens that if they don't leave Fred he will hurt her, Fred unties himself and orders Pete to take her to the theater as a hostage.

While holding Nancy hostage, Fred tells Nancy that he has feelings for her and tries to justify his actions, saying that he was only defending himself from Mike and his group since they could have killed him, but he also clarifies that he is not going to free her, since that for once he is "the Big Man" in both a physical sense and in the sense that he can make the decisions and that he won't have to listen, "don't do this" and that now he was in charge and no one would tell him again " don't do something" again.

Fred and his friends leave the theater after Horsey breaks a window, then Mike challenges Fred to a duel, with Mike hitting him with his swing, Fred tries to hit a giant branch, Fred after being provoked by Mike, Fred continually tries After hitting Mike with the branch and chasing him, after many failed attempts and Mike accidentally losing his swing, Fred decides to end the duel by trying to kill Mike by hitting him with a light pole.

However, Genius arrives with his shrinking formula completed, returning Fred and his group to their normal size. Fred, after returning to normal size, is beaten by Mike and then expelled by the adults. After returning to where they started and with their car still damaged, Fred and his friends decide to walk back to their home, however on the way they meet several dwarfs who had heard of the growth formula (although in the town there was no communication) and they headed towards the town, while Fred and his friends walk away.