Print Page | Close Window

YOUR greatest movie characters list

Printed From: Progarchives.com
Category: Topics not related to music
Forum Name: General discussions
Forum Description: Discuss any topic at all that is not music-related
URL: http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=54674
Printed Date: November 23 2024 at 21:36
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com


Topic: YOUR greatest movie characters list
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: YOUR greatest movie characters list
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 08:37
Ok, so heheh, the Empire magazine top 100 list has not made our members exactly happy, sooooo, I thought, as everybody seems to have an opinion (which is good as always), let´s make a list of our own? Shall we? Let´s say...mmm, 20 picks, ok? But if you want more, let´s go for it. And just as Empire´s list, make the list as subjective as you want, cause objectivity never works, so keep in mind that it´s all personal taste here. I think later on we can make a Top 100 list out of the results, much like the one about albums... if anybody want´s to help that would be greatLOL

Ok, so, keep in mind, subjectivity, please rank them and but whatever you feel like...   

-------------
"You want me to play what, Robert?"



Replies:
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 09:31
  1. The Joker - The dark knight
  2. Annie Hall - Annie Hall
  3. Vito Corleone - The Godfather
  4. Tyler Durden - Fight club
  5. Hannibal Lecter - The silence of the lamps/ Hannibal/ Red dragon
  6. Alex - The clockwork orange
  7. John Doe - Seven
  8. Charles Kane - Citizen Kane
  9. Rick Blaine - Casablanca
  10. Daniel Plainview - There will be blood
  11. Derek Zoolander - Zoolander
  12. Guido Anselmi - 8 1/2
  13. Darth Vader - Star Wars trilogy
  14. Frank Booth - Blue Velvet
  15. Jack Torrance - The shining
  16. Death - The seventh seal
  17. Michael Corleone - The Godfather 1, 2 & 3
  18. Dr. Strangelove - Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
  19. Rufus T. Firefly - Duck soup
  20. Lester Burnham - American Beauty


-------------
"You want me to play what, Robert?"


Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 09:34
Toshiro Mifune in any Kurosawa film LOL


Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 09:39
Originally posted by Swan Song Swan Song wrote:

Toshiro Mifune on any Korosawa film LOL

Very true. Clap He's on my list, anyway, which I will soon post.


Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 10:27
Here I go:

1. Henry Spencer - from Eraserhead, played by Jack Nance
2. Aguirre - from Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, played by Klaus Kinski
3. Andrei Rublev - from Andrei Rublev, played by Anatoli Solonitsyn
4. Carole Ledoux - from Repulsion, played by Catherine Deneuve
5. Antoine Doinel - from Les Quatre cents coups and several other films by Truffaut, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud
6. Cosmo Vitelli - from The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, played by Ben Gazzara
7. Le père Jules - from L'Atalante, played by Michel Simon
8. Alex - from Boy Meets Girl, played by Denis Lavant
9. Ville Alfa - from Valehtelija, played by Aki Kaurismäki
10. The samurai - from Sanjuro and Yojimbo, played by Toshirô Mifune
11. Sergeant Howie - from Wicker Man, played by Edward Woodward
12. Rick Deckard - from Blade Runner, played by Harrison Ford
13. Jim Stark - from Rebel Without a Cause, played by James Dean
14. Holly Golightly - from Breakfast at Tiffany's, played by Audrey Hepburn
15. Gustav von Aschenback - from Morte a Venezia, played by Dirk Bogarde
16. Jake La Motta - from Raging Bull, played by Robert De Niro
17. Bruno Stroszek - from Stroszek, played by Bruno S.
18. Grace - from Dogville, played by Nicole Kidman
19. William Foster - from Falling Down, played by Michael Douglas
20. Jack Torrance - from The Shining, played by Jack Nicholson



Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 12:32


Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 12:51
^ Who would've seen that one coming?

Mine, in no particular order (includes TV series characters):

Homer Simpson
The Dude from The Big Lebowski
George Baby Face Nelson from Brother Where Art Thou
John Goodman's character from the very same movie
The obligatory Toshiro Mifune Samurai
The ultra-badass silent samurai from The Seven Samurai
John Turturro's character from Anger Management
The Donkey from Shrek (but only for a few select scenes, like when he thinks Shrek is seriously wounded)
The Bundies
Reverend Lovejoy from The Simpsons
half of Friends (Chandler, Phoebe and Joey)
Mr Fawlty from Fawlty Towers
and a host of characters from Polish sitcoms, the watching of which will make your brain melt

Yeah, apart from Kurosawa I don't watch ambitious cinema.


Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 13:32
Adding some:
 
- Aram Yossarian (Alan Arkin): Catch 22
- Manny (Jon Voight): Runaway Train
- Capt. Willard (Martin Sheen): Apocalypse Now
- Wyatt, Billy & George (Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson): Easy Rider
- Chance (Peter Sellers): Being There
- Dersu Uzala (Maxim Munzuk): Dersu Uzala
- Xi (N!xau): The Gods Must Be Crazy
- American Pilot & Japanese Captain (Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune): Hell In The Pacific
- Chief Gillespie, Virgil Tibbs (Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier): In The Heat Of The Night
- Roy (Rutger Hauer): Blade Runner
- Giovanna (Sophia Loren): I Girasoli


-------------
Guigo

~~~~~~


Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 13:58
There are many I could name, but here's ten from me:

Red (Morgan Freeman)- The Shawshank Redemption
Mrs. Munson (Irma B. Hayes) - The Lady Killers
The Joker (Heath Ledger) - The Dark Knight
Rochester (Alan Cummings) - Plunkett & Maclene
Fletcher Reed (Jim Carrey) - Liar Liar
Bud Kilmer (Jon Voight) - Varsity Blues
Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson) - The Patriot
William Tavington (Jason Isaacs) - The Patriot
Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) - The Green Mile
Saruman the White
(Christopher Lee) - The Lord of the Rings




-------------
https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays" rel="nofollow - https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays


Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 14:00
Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:


Yeah, apart from Kurosawa I don't watch ambitious cinema.
 
Well, if we're nominating from Kurosawa now, my choice is Kanji Watanabe from Ikiru. That being said, most of Seven Samurai is hard to beat as well.


Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 14:45
quite the task to come up with something definitive but here's some off the top my head

(Selma-Bjork) - Dancer in the Dark
(Frank Booth-Dennis Hopper) - Blue Velvet
(MacReady-Kurt Russel) - The Thing
(Roy Batty-Rutgur Hauer) - Blade Runner
(Lawrence-Peter O Toole) - Lawrence of Arabia
(Pazuzu-Linda Blair) - The Exorcist
(Bato) - Ghost In the Shell 2: Innocence
(Hedwig-John Cameron Mitchell) - Hedwig and The Angry Inch
(horny 14 year old girl) A Real Young Girl
(Dr Robert Morgan-Vincent Price) - The Last Man on Earth
(Hitler-Bruno Ganz) - Der Untergang
(Hombré-Helmut Doring) Even Dwarves Started Small
(Baron Harkonen-Kenneth Mcmillan) - Dune


Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 15:21
Louis Mazzini, Kind Hearts and Coronets, played by Denis Price.
Henri Verdoux, Monsieur Verdoux, played by Charlie Chaplin.
Monsieur Hulot, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, Mon Oncle, Playtime and severall shorts, played by Jacques Tati.
Darth Vader, Star Wars, played by James Earl Jones, David Prowse and Bob Anderson.
Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean, played by Johnny Depp.
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, Quills, played by Geoffrey Rush.
Kirk Lazarus, Tropic Thunder, played by Robert Downey Jr.
The Joker, The Dark Knight, played by Heath Ledger.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, played by Michael Keaton.
John McClane, Die Hard, played by Bruce Willis. 
Carrol Todd, Victor Victoria, played by Robert Preston. 
Martin Blank, Grosse Point Blank, played by John Cusack.
Phil Connors, Groundhog Day, played by Bill Murray.
Christine Vole, Witness for the Prossecution, played by Marlene Dietrich.
Frank Galvin, The Verdict, played by Paul Newman.
Erika Kohut, La Pianiste, played by Isabelle Huppert.
Amélie Poulain, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou.
Chance, Being There, played by Peter Sellers.
Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, The Legend of 1900, played by Tim Roth.
Jack Carter, Get Carter, played by Michael Caine.
 


-------------
Bigger on the inside.


Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 15:57
Originally posted by Leningrad Leningrad wrote:

Originally posted by Visitor13 Visitor13 wrote:


Yeah, apart from Kurosawa I don't watch ambitious cinema.
 
Well, if we're nominating from Kurosawa now, my choice is Kanji Watanabe from Ikiru. That being said, most of Seven Samurai is hard to beat as well.

how about Toshiro Mifune asTajomaro in "Rashomon"? my favorite movie, by the way

other great characters:
Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang's "M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder"
Marlon Brando as Mark Antony in "Julius Caesar"
Donald Sutherland as John Baxter in "Don't Look Now!"
Ruth Gordon as Minnie Castevet in "Rosemary's Baby"
Jim van der Woude as the pointsman in Jos Stelling's "De Wisselwachter" ("The Pointsman")
Renée Soutendijk as Chrsitine Halssl*g in "De vierde Man" ("The Fourth Man") by Paul Verhoven



-------------


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta


Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 16:20
Mark Walberg (sp?) as Dirk Diggler in Boogie Nights is one of my favorites- if not my favorite. 

-------------





Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 16:56
I like how a thread was started because Empire's list was so insane yet people are posting just as many recent pop culture characters as they are emblematic cinematic icons.

In addition to some of the more salient choices, I add:

Harry Lime- Orson Welles (The Third Man)
Charles Chaplin- Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin)- best acting performance of the 90s, IMO
Dr Mabuse- Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse)
Frank- Henry Fonda (Once Upon a Time in the West)
Man With no Name- Clint Eastwood (Dollars Trilogy)


Posted By: ClemofNazareth
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 17:31

It's a little bit of a one-dimensional list.....

Oh yeah, and this one -



-------------
"Peace is the only battle worth waging."

Albert Camus


Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: January 11 2009 at 18:37
1. Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell) - Evil Dead, Evil Dead II
2. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) - American Psycho
3. Brian Cohen (Graham Chapman) - Life of Brian
4. Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) - A Clockwork Orange
5. Kim Jong-il (Trey Parker) - Team America: World Police
6. Edith Piaf (Marion Cotillard) - La Vie en Rose
7. Spongebob Squarepants (Tom Kenny) - The Spongebob Squarepants Movie
8. Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) - Blue Velvet
9. Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) - There Will Be Blood
10. Amelie (Audrey Tautou) - Amelie
11. Creedence Leonore Gielgud (Deborah Reed) - Troll 2
12. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) - Forrest Gump
13. Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) - There Will Be Blood
14. Dory (Ellen DeGeneres)  - Finding Nemo
15. Main Knight Who Says “Ni” (Michael Palin) - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
16 & 17. Timon and Pumbaa (Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella) - The Lion King
18. The Man in the Planet (Jack Fisk) - Eraserhead
19. Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones) - Chicago
20. Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) – The Producers


-------------
<font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR]



Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 00:54
John McLain - Bruce Willis - Die Hard series
Darth Vader - Star Wars IV-VI
Luke Skywalker - Mark Hamill - Star Wars IV-VI
Yoda - Star Wars IV-VI
James Bond - Sean Connery/Roger Moore - Bond Series
Rocky Balboa - Sylvester Stalone - Rocky
Indiana Jones - Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones series
Henry Plainview - Daniel Day Lewis - There Will Be Blood
The Joker - Heath Ledger - The Dark Knight
Shaft - Richard Roundtree - Shaft series
Django - Franco Nero - Django
The Man With No Name - Clint Eastwood - The G,B,U
The Terminator - Arnie - Terminator 1 & 2
T-1000 - Robert Patrick - T2
Frank Griswald - Chevy Chase - Vacation
Bob Wiley - Bill Murray - What About Bob?
Max Fischer - Jason Schwartzman- Rushmore
Steve Zisou - Bill Murray - The Life Aquatic
Royal Tenenbaum - Gene Hackman - The Royal Tenenbaums
Nick Parker - Rutger Hauer - Blind Fury
Rupert Pupkin - Robert De Niro - The King of Comedy
Ash - Bruce Cambell - Evil Dead/Army of Darkness
Duckie - Jon Cryer - Pretty in Pink
Frank Serpico - Al Pacino - Serpico
The Black Knight/Tim The Enchanter - John Cleese - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Frank Booth - Dennis Hopper - Blue Velvet
Patrick Bateman - Christian Bale - American Psycho
Brian Cohen - Graham Chapman - Life of Brian
Prince Akeem - Eddie Murphy - Coming to America
Corky St. Clair - Christopher Guest - Waiting for Guffman
The Dude - Jeff Bridges - The Big Lebowski
Don Vito Corleone - Marlon Brando - The Godfather
Boba Fett - Jeremy Bulloch - Star Wars V-VI
Rick Blaine - Humphrey Bogart - Casablanca
"Verbal" Kent - Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
Dr. Strangelove - Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or How I....
Neo - Keanu Reeves - The Matrix
Leon - Jean Reno - Leon/The Professional
"The Narrator" - Edward Norton - Fight Club
Travis Bickle - Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
The Lieutenant - Harvey Keitel - Bad Lieutenant
Jake La Motta - Robert De Niro - Raging Bull
Luke - Paul Newman - Cool Hands Luke
Capt. Hilts - Steve McQueen - The Great Escape
Death - Bent Ekerot - The Seventh Seal
Jefferson Smith - James Stewart - Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Terry Malloy - Marlon Brando - On the Waterfront
Marge Gunderson - Frances McDormand - Fargo
Oh Dae Su - Choi Min Sik - Oldboy
Ichi - Nao Omori - Ichi the Killer
Sanjuro Kuwabatake - Toshiro Mifune - Yojimbo
Mrs. Robinson - Anne Bancroft - The Graduate
Inigo Montoya - Mandy Patinka - The Princess Bride
Vizzini - Wally Shawn - The Princess Bride
Nicky Santoro - Joe Pesci - Casino
Vinny - Joe Pesci - My Cousin Vinny
Virgil Tibbs - Sidney Poitier - In the Heat of the Night
Ralphie Parker - Peter Billingsly  - A Christmas Story
Paul Kersey - Charles Bronson - Death Wish
"Lonesome" Rhodes - Andy Griffith - A Face in the Crowd
Jim Stark - James Dean - Rebel Without a Cause
Holly Golightley - Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's 
Marcello Rubini - Marcello Mastroianni - La Dolce Vita
Max - Jean Gabin - Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
Dr. Isak Borg - Victor Sjösbörg - Smultronstället 
Coffy - Pam Grier - Coffy
Gort - Lock Martin - The Day the Earth Stood Still
Charles Tatum - Kirk Douglas - Ace in the Hole
Joe Clark - Morgan Freeman - Lean on Me
Monsieur Hulot - Jaques Tati - Mon Oncle
Corey - Alain Delon - Le Cercle Rouge
Lorelei Lee - Marilyn Monroe - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Josef K - Anthony Perkins - The Trial
Willie Stark - Broderick Crawford - All the Kings Men
Jason Vorhees - Friday the 13th series
Sailor Ripley - Nicholas Cage - Wild at Heart
Billie Dawn - Judy Holliday - Born Yesterday
Annie Hall - Diane Keaton - Annie Hall
Madeline Elster/Judy - Kim Novak - Vertigo
Marcello - Jean-Louis Trintignat - The Conformist
David Dobel - Woody Allen - Anything Else
Kikujiro - Takeshi Kitano - Kikujiro
David Sumner - Dustin Hoffman - Straw Dogs
Dr. Michael Hfurhuhurr - Steve Martin - The Man With Two Brains
Mr. Smith - Clive Owen - Shoot 'Em Up
Lt. Col Frank Slade - Al Pacino - Scent of a Woman 
Oddjob - Harold Sakata - Goldfinger
Otto - Kevin Kline - A Fish Called Wanda
Laurie Strode - Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween
Charlie/Donald Kaufman - Nicholas Cage - Adaptation
Ripley - Sigourney Weaver - Alien(s)(3)(Resurrection)
I also second the nomination for:
 Mona Lisa Vito - Marisa Tomei - My Cousin Vinny



I think thats pretty close to 100.  Although not in order whatsoever.
Edit: Counted, its 90.


Posted By: Tapfret
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 02:43
In no particular order, just some favorites of mine

Cassanova Frankenstein (Geoffrey Rush) - Mystery Men
John Malkovich (John Malkovich) - Being John Malkovich
One (Ron Perlman) - The City of Lost Children
Sam Lowry (Jonathan Price) - Brazil
Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) - 12 Monkeys
Karl Childers (Billy Bob Thornton) - Sling Blade
Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) - Ed Wood
The beautiful girl who dismembers people with razor wire in Audition
Aileen Wuornos (Charlize Theron) - Monster
Ernesto Guevera (Gael Garcia Bernal) - Motorcycle Diaries
Derrick Smalls (Harry Shearer) - This is Spinal Tap
Begbie (Robert Carlyle) - Trainspotting
Bricktop (Alan Ford) - Snatch
The Captain (Jurgen Prochnow) - Das Boot
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) - American Psycho
Seagent Hartman (Lee Emery) - Full Metal Jacket
Robin Hood (John Cleese) - Time Bandits
Khan (Ricardo Mantalban) - Star Trek 2
Angel (Antonio Banderas) - Matador
The Brother (Joe Morton) - The Brother From Another Planet


-------------
https://www.last.fm/user/Tapfret" rel="nofollow">
https://bandcamp.com/tapfret" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp


Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 13:26
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

I like how a thread was started because Empire's list was so insane yet people are posting just as many recent pop culture characters as they are emblematic cinematic icons.



You are sort of a pretentious prick, aren´t you? LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL


-------------
"You want me to play what, Robert?"


Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 16:27
Originally posted by el böthy el böthy wrote:

Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

I like how a thread was started because Empire's list was so insane yet people are posting just as many recent pop culture characters as they are emblematic cinematic icons.



You are sort of a pretentious prick, aren´t you? LOLLOLLOLLOLLOL

Not really. I'd much rather watch The Dark Knight than Citizen Kane, but calling someone like Derek Zoolander, Dirk Diggler, and Steve Zissou a timeless creation of cinema is just hysterical, and I loved all three of those movies.

And are the people who mentioned Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Tomei in My Cousin Vinny doing so because of how infamously undeserving an award they were?


Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:31
Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:


Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) - Ed Wood



you know, I'm not a Johnny Depp fan, but I really liked him in that movie, interesting choice


Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:43
Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) - Bicycle Thieves --> It's frightening how relevant Ricci's plight is today.


Posted By: June
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 19:56
I'm way to lazy to repeat all the ones from your lists that I like, but I will add:
 
Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) - Breaking The Waves
the whole cast of Dancer In The Dark
all the old people - Babette's Feats
 
 
and the unforgettable (heck, I don't care what you say, this lady beats them all, you put this one in a room with Darth Vader and he'll never make it):
 
Danielle Billard (Tsilla Chelton) - Tatie Danielle
 
 


Posted By: Henry Plainview
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 21:00
I think my namesake was underappreciated in There Will Be Blood. He is obviously overshadowed in every possible way by DDL, but with what we do see of him, he is as fascinating and deep a character as Daniel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_GHIRxzYrs -
 
And with hints like these, I also think he is a much more integral part of the movie than you may initially realize.
 
I haven't seen most of the movies being mentioned. :/


-------------
if you own a sodastream i hate you


Posted By: The T
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:11
The best character ever in any movie is The Tramp. By the Master of cinema Charles Chaplin. Just watch "City Lights" and "the gold Rush" and "modern times".
 
And yes Henry Plainview, your namesake is quite underappreciated. At least your face-sake Day-lewis received what he deserved for such a performance.
 
There's too many great characters in movies. If you have seen as many as I have (from the 20's till the 00's - not that I was alive - selecting just a few gets really impossible. Especially when some of the best appear in not-so-famous movies.


-------------


Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:48
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:



And are the people who mentioned Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Tomei in My Cousin Vinny doing so because of how infamously undeserving an award they were?


Well I don't give a crap about any awards the actors or actresses get because it doesn't matter and those shows are completely political.  But the rules stated were to be as subjective as we want and I like both those characters so I put them on my list. 

Also if the lists were based on performances of the actors alone, there would be plenty of people to boot off hence the title "YOUR greatest movie characters list".


Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: January 12 2009 at 22:51
As I said in the other "greatest movie characters" thread, I think Dustin Hoffman should be placed in the list because of his performance as Raymond Babbit in Rain Man.


Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 04:34
Originally posted by BroSpence BroSpence wrote:

Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:



And are the people who mentioned Pacino in Scent of a Woman and Tomei in My Cousin Vinny doing so because of how infamously undeserving an award they were?


Well I don't give a crap about any awards the actors or actresses get because it doesn't matter and those shows are completely political.  But the rules stated were to be as subjective as we want and I like both those characters so I put them on my list. 

Also if the lists were based on performances of the actors alone, there would be plenty of people to boot off hence the title "YOUR greatest movie characters list".
Exactly, as I´ve said earlier, it´s completly subjective. If you like Meryl Streep in Mama mia! the most.... go for it... we will feel sorry for you, but go for it LOL At the same time, anybody is entitled to question anyones choice, just, as alway, be f**king polite
 
And personally I don´t think the Bycicle thiev is that much of a character. He is just caught in a f**ked up situation, but as a character, I don´t think he is really that interesting... but, it´s your choice
 
Another great character is Vincent Freeman (Ethan Hawk) in Gattaca. A man that will stop at nothing to be what he wants, even if that means to carrz a bag of Jude Laws urine attached to his thigh.
 
And, how could I forget Julie Delpy as Celine in Before Sunrise and Before Sunset...?Heart


-------------
"You want me to play what, Robert?"


Posted By: fusionfreak
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 09:21
John Mallory(James Coburn)in Duck You Sucker
Juan Miranda(Rod Steiger)in the same movie
Gerry Conlon(Daniel Day Lewis)In the name of the father
Keoma(Franco Nero)in Keoma
The Joker(Heath Ledger)in The Dark Knight
Winston Smith(John Hurt)in 1984
Billy The Kid(Kris Kristofferson)in Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid
Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times


-------------
I was born in the land of Mahavishnu,not so far from Kobaia.I'm looking for the world

of searchers with the help from

crimson king


Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 13:42
OK here I go.
You asked for it you got it.

Frank Castle - The Punisher
Mad Max
The Terminator ( First one )
The Exorcist ( the priest )
Dirty Harry
Captain Kirk
Seven Of Nine
Lilly Munster
Agent 99 ( Barbara Feldon )
Fraulein Hilda ( Hogan`s Heroes )
Mary- Ann ( Gilligan`s Island )
Julie Newmar ( Catwoman )
Bloefeld
Christiane F
Tara King
Mrs. Peel
Carol Cleveland
Mr. Gumby
Ian Gillian as Jesus Christ
Jill Ireland
Eraserhead
Vincent Price
Ernie & Bert
Big Bird
Dedalus ( original Hercules cartoon) I mean c`mon that guy was bad all over. He was even worse than Bloefeld.
Ursula Andress
Lassie
Skippy The Bush Kangaroo
Flipper
Gene Krupa
Alice Kramden
Columbo
Mr. Spock
Elvis ( Frankie & Johnnie were real lovers )
Kevin Bloody Wilson
Queen Elizabeth II

OK this is getting out of control, my favourite movie of all time APOCALYPSE NOW. Favourite scene? Favourite line ?
" They train young men to drop fire on people. But their commanders won`t allow them to write f*** on their airplane because ? It`s obscene".
Godzilla is another favourite actor of mine.
I`m not even keeping count here but believe me I could go on and on and on.






-------------
                


Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:08
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:


Ian Gillian as Jesus Christ

Ian Gillan never played Jesus, did he? He sang the OG album, but never did any of the shows or the movie.


Posted By: BaldJean
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:12
Originally posted by 1800iareyay 1800iareyay wrote:

Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:


Ian Gillian as Jesus Christ

Ian Gillan never played Jesus, did he? He sang the OG album, but never did any of the shows or the movie.

Ted Neely starred as Jesus in the movie


-------------


A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta


Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 14:18
I stand corrected. Yeah, Ted Neely "So you`re Mister Christ. Mr. Wonderful Christ."

-------------
                


Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 21:03
I just watched Jaws for the umpteenth time in a film class. Quint is the best supporting character ever, the end.


Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: January 13 2009 at 21:43
Originally posted by fusionfreak fusionfreak wrote:

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times
 
Thank you.



Print Page | Close Window

Forum Software by Web Wiz Forums® version 11.01 - http://www.webwizforums.com
Copyright ©2001-2014 Web Wiz Ltd. - http://www.webwiz.co.uk