Who are your favourite on-screen characters? I find this is somewhat different to my favourite characters from a book: a good actor can turn a standard character into something brilliant. Ie Lord of the Rings: my favourite on-screen characters are totally different to my favourites from the book.
Anyway, without further ado, I'll start off with a couple of mine:
RIFF-RAFF (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)I think the best thing about riff-raff is maybe simply his
voice. Also, his entrance, his dancing...okay, he's just fucking cool.
Best line: All of them.
EVIL GENIUS (Time Bandits)Costume by Giger, lines by Micheal Palin and Terry Gilliam, acting by David Warner. There's very little that could be better about Evil Genius. Highlights are his insane ways of disposing of his foes (and indeed henchmen), his obsession with technology, and his lines.
Best lines: "If I was making a universe, I wouldn't have messed around with butterflies and daffodils, I'd have started with lasers, eight o'clock day one!" *makes a decisive gesture, accidentally incinerating a henchman* "Sorry."
Evil: "God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!"
Robert: "Slugs."
Evil: "Slugs! HE created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?"
DR. PRETORIUS (The Bride of Frankenstein)Camp, evil, deranged, and the best mad scientist EVER.
Best line: "Have a *insert something here*, they're my only vice!" (he has many vices. He also drinks gin out of laboratory glassware.)
LORD SUMMERISLE (The Wicker Man)Mild-mannered, jovial, mysterious, and, as he points out to Howie, a very religious man. One of Christopher Lees best, and most complex, roles. Indeed, it was written specially for him as his escape for Hammer Horror.
Best line:
Sergeant Howie: "And what of the true god, whose glory, churches and monasteries have been built on these islands for generations past? Now sir, what of him?"
Lord Summerisle: "He's dead. Can't complain, had his chance and in modern parlance, blew it."