There really isn't a reason, he just is. Read the books they are awesome!
Jamie Foreman plays Basta in the 2008 film.
In the book "Inkheart," Basta typically carries a sharp knife as his weapon of choice. He is known for his skill in using it and is a dangerous adversary because of it.
Fighting with a knife, being reckless and evil
Capricorn, Basta, Orpheas, Mortola (The Magpie) and The Adderhead..
He´s played by Jamie Foreman. Not a good choose I think :(
The main antagonist is Capricorn, the main "villain" that Mo read out of the fictional Inkheart novel; as well as his henchmen Basta, Flatnose and many others. Thanks to the simplistic style of the fictional Inkheart, the "bad guys" in Inkheart all wore black clothing.
The solution is that Fenoglio writes a new ending to the Original Inkheart story in which the Shadow, which is read out of the new ending by Meggie, destroys Carpicorn and those of his men that had murdered (except Basta). Then when the shadow is finished it disintegrates- releasing all the innocent people who it had killed over the years.
Originally the only characters Mo read out of Inkheart were Capricorn, Basta and Dustfinger, however after the fight (Capricorn & Basta attacked Mo, Dustfinger helped Mo; all three "read out" characters ran away) Capricorn found another reader, Darius, who read out many more characters, albeit with flaws. These included Flatnose, Cockerall and even Resa, Meggie's mother, who had been read into the book when Capricorn et all were read out.
Inkheart is fiction.
inkheart inkspell and inkdeath
Inkheart was created in 2002.
No Basta was created in 1990.