James Steven Beverly Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I just watched a show on Bravo where they counted down the best 100 best TV charatures and thought this would be a fun subject for discussion. Name your 10 best Charatures and if there are 2 or more( up to 4) that play off of each other in the same film, that can count as one. ( they did that in the Bravo thing so I figure it's only fair that we get to do it to). For me it's 1: Bond, James Bond 2: Don Vito Corleone'-The Godfather 3: Dracula 4: Sam Spade-The Maltese Falcon 6:Ret Butler-Gone With the Wind 7:The Terminator 8:Jack Torrance-The Shining 9:Darth Vader 10:Ripley- Alien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Ojeil Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 (edited) Don Vito Corleone -- Marlon Brando Don Vito Corleone -- Robert De Niro Melena -- Monica Bellucci Cpt. Jack Sparrow -- Johny Depp John Milton -- Al Paccino Hannibal Lecter -- Anthony Hopkins Gollum -- Andy Serkis Maria -- Pupella Maggio (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) Modigliani -- Andy Garcia King Kong -- Andy Serkis Edited May 27, 2006 by Oliver S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Chris Cooke Posted May 27, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 27, 2006 Don Vito Corleone -- Marlon BrandoDon Vito Corleone -- Robert De Niro Melena -- Monica Bellucci Cpt. Jack Sparrow -- Johny Depp John Milton -- Al Paccino Hannibal Lecter -- Anthony Hopkins Gollum -- Andy Serkis Maria -- Pupella Maggio (Nuovo Cinema Paradiso) Modigliani -- Andy Garcia King Kong -- Andy Serkis Jesus Christ - Jim Caviezal William Wallace - Mel Gibson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Sweetman Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 I've just got one. Ethan Edwards - played by John Wayne, in The Searchers. "We'll find 'em, Marty. Sure as the turnin' of the earth." Freakin hardcore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted May 27, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 27, 2006 Ethan Edwards I agree with that one. Off the top of my head, here are a few... Ethan Edwards Charles Foster Kane Harry Lime HAL 9000 Henry II (from The Lion in Winter) Elenor of Acquitaine ( " ) Hannibal Lecter Johnny Grey (Buster Keaton's The General) Almost everyone in "Dr. Strangelove" Shimura and Mifune's characters in "Seven Samurai" Steve McQueen's character in "The Great Escape" King Kong Sigmund Freud & Sherlock Holmes (in "The Seven Percent Solution") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Steven Beverly Posted May 27, 2006 Author Share Posted May 27, 2006 I also have to add Travis Bickle from taxi Driver, I know that's 11 but what the Hell, It's my tread :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Markus Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting from Gangs Of New York Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Wuijts Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Some that haven't been mentioned: the shark in Jaws Rocky Rambo Terry Malloy (Brando) in On the Waterfront Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in you know what Adenoid Hynkel (Chaplin) in The Great Dictator Hans Beckert (Peter Lorre) in Fritz Lang's M Cesare (Conrad Veidt) in Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari The possessed Regan (Linda Blair) in the Exorcist Popeye (Gene Hackman) in The French Connection The Dude in the Big Lebowski that's also eleven :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Taylor Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Tucho - Good, the Bad, The Ugly Tommy - Good Fellas Kit - Bad Lands Blue Duck - Lonesome Dove Linda Manz - Days of Heaven Harry Caul - Conversation Jackie - State of Grace Two Related Pyschos - History of Violence McCabe & Mrs. Miller - McCabe & Mrs. Miller Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasarsenault Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Little Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leslie Frid Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 Now guys, i know that some may not agree....but since i grew up pretty much obsessed to the bone with these three films, i have to add: Han solo Chewbacca Obi wan kenobi r2-d2 c3p0.....ok, i know he is pretty annoying...but what a legendary character the emperor Darth vader but he has already been mentioned predator alien indiana jones Ash from army of darkness the captian from Das Boot i think is a great character....lots of conflict going on inside him between wanting to succeed with the mission, keeping his crew safe, and being frustrated at the way things are run Mr Smith from the matrix the balrog from LOTR cheers! Steve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonathan Spear Posted May 27, 2006 Share Posted May 27, 2006 In no particular order.. 1. Leeloo (5th element) 2. Edward Scissorhands 3. Walter Sobcek 4. Jessica Rabbit 5. Salierri (from Amadeus) 6. Cptn. John H. Miller 7. Indiana Jones 8. Westley (from the Princess Bride) 9. Gandalf 10. Briar Rose (I'm madly in love with her.. and yes.. I know she's not real) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Hal Smith Posted May 27, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 27, 2006 Gosh! Everyone's being so SERIOUS. :) My votes? The entire cast of "Young Frankenstein" and - of course - Jake and Elwood. I guess I just plain like comedic characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest peter orland Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 1: Marv...(Mickey Rourke in Sin City) 2: Ripley... ( Sigourney Weaver in Aliens) 3: The Terminator... (BIG ARNIE) 4: Seven Of NIne... (Voyager) OUCH!!!! 5: Forest Gump...(run Forest, run) 6: Babe...(the pig) 7: T-REX... (Jurasic Park) 8: Hawkeye...(Last Of The Mohicans) 9: Jake The Muss...(Once Were Warriors) And finally...Eugene Martone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Dan Goulder Posted May 28, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 28, 2006 Tucho - Good, the Bad, The Ugly Here's one vote for 'The Cowboy' from Mulholland Drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Salzmann Posted May 28, 2006 Share Posted May 28, 2006 Johnny Boy-the DeNiro character in "Mean Streets" Ratso Rizzo-Dustin Hoffman in "Midnight Cowboy" BadAss Baduski-Jack Nicholson in "The Last Detail" The mother in "Requiem For a Dream" The Walter Mathau character in "Taking of Pelham 123" Dustin Hoffman in "Dog Day Afternoon" Al Pacino In "Scarface" Richard Edson in "Stranger than Paradise" Laurence Olivier in "Marathon Man" Jason Robards in "A Thousand Clowns" And I know it's three more but... Peter Seller's in "The Party" and "Dr. Strangelove" Alec Guiness in "Kind Hearts and Coronets" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Steven Beverly Posted May 29, 2006 Author Share Posted May 29, 2006 Dustin Hoffman in "Dog Day Afternoon" Actually that was also Pacino Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy O'Neil Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Harry Caul (The Conversation) - Gene Hackman HAL (2001: A Space Odyssey) - Douglas Rain (voice) Krystyna (Knife in the Water) - Jolanta Umecka Ted Kramer (Kramer vs. Kramer) - Dustin Hoffman Léon (Léon) - Jean Reno Frank T. J. Mackey (Magnolia) - Tom Cruise Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction) - Samuel L. Jackson Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Apocalypse Now) - Marlon Brando Ripley (Alien) - Sigourney Weaver Jack Torrance (The Shining) - Jack Nicholson Roy Neary (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) - Richard Dreyfuss Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Adam White Posted May 30, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted May 30, 2006 A few to add Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) Tombstone David Dunn (Bruce Willis) Unbreakable Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) The Mark of Zorro Snak Pliskin (Kurt Russell) Escape from New York Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine) Vikings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike geranios Posted June 2, 2006 Share Posted June 2, 2006 A few to add Doc Holiday (Val Kilmer) Tombstone David Dunn (Bruce Willis) Unbreakable Captain Esteban Pasquale (Basil Rathbone) The Mark of Zorro Snak Pliskin (Kurt Russell) Escape from New York Ragnar (Ernest Borgnine) Vikings RIPLEY JAMES BOND DON VITO CORLEONE HANNIBAL LECTER ELEPHANT MAN ROCO :-) FAST EDDIE REY LIOTTA IN GOODFELLAS TERMINATOR LEON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
william everett Posted June 19, 2006 Share Posted June 19, 2006 How about the Wicked Witch? Has anyone NOT said, once in their life, "I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog, too!" or this one "Auntie Em! Auntie Em...." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Bays Posted June 20, 2006 Share Posted June 20, 2006 (edited) Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting from Gangs Of New York Yes. Regan from the Excorcist Jaws Rocky The Cemetery zombie in Night of the Living dead Humphrey Bogart (Rick Blaine) Casablanca Dracula (bela lugosi) Superman (78) Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore William 'Bill' Munny My guilty pleasure Matthew McConaughey .... Vilmer (The Return of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) He WAS awesom...no kidding. Edited June 20, 2006 by Kemper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted June 20, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted June 20, 2006 In no particular order: The Samurai (Yojimbo) - Toshiro Mifune Howard Beale (Network) - Peter Finch Death (Bengt Ekerot) - The Seventh Seal Westley/The Man in Black (The Princess Bride) - Cary Elwes Rik Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) - Casablanca Cody Jarret (White Heat) - James Cagney T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) - Lawrence of Arabia Robby the Robot - Forbidden Planet Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) - Ferris Bueller's Day Off Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) - Wall Street Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) - Basic Instinct I cheated, that's 11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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