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« on: 11 Apr 2006, 18:17 »

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."
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« Reply #1 on: 11 Apr 2006, 18:29 »



Oldboy's Oh-Daesu

I can't begin to gush about how much i love this film, two of the greatest characters to ever interact with eachother in a sadistic plot of revenge.



Oldboy's Woo-jin Lee

The second of the two, and an equally amazing performance as well. These two are most solid on-screen pair since Brad Pitt and Ed Norton.
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« Reply #2 on: 11 Apr 2006, 19:08 »



Slim (Lauren Bacall) from To Have and Have Not. Innuendo in a 40s movie, not an ingenue, intelligent, and uber-contralto which earns her points with me.
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« Reply #3 on: 11 Apr 2006, 19:24 »



Vincent from Collateral.  One of the few believable hitmen I've seen in a Hollywood movie.
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« Reply #4 on: 11 Apr 2006, 22:29 »

And Tom Cruise's only worthwhile performance in years.


Jef Costello, Le Samourai.  The epitome of stone-cold badass.



Jeffers/Obecks
Parker/Longbaugh

Way of the Gun.  Two fantastic 'buddy' pairings.  With James Caan somewhere in the middle, no less.
"Between you and me, this isn't really a 'brains' sort of operation."


The United Systems Colonial Marine Corps.  The State of the Badass Art, as it were.


You've done a man's work, sir.
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« Reply #5 on: 11 Apr 2006, 23:40 »

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Domino Harvey in Domino.

Talk about uber lesbian domination fantasy.
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« Reply #6 on: 12 Apr 2006, 00:18 »

That's funny, I was thinkign about posting the two from Way of the Gun after looking around my room for posters of awesome movies.
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« Reply #7 on: 12 Apr 2006, 07:33 »


Amelie.


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Sam in Garden State


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« Reply #8 on: 12 Apr 2006, 07:46 »

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Jef Costello, Le Samourai.  The epitome of stone-cold badass.


YES!!!!

Randal McMurphy (Jack Nicholoson)- One Flew Over The Ccukoo's Nest
Sonny Corleone (Jimmy Caan) - Godfather
Butch & Sundance
Everett, Pete & Delmar- O Brother Where Art Thou?
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« Reply #9 on: 12 Apr 2006, 10:31 »

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Yes!
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« Reply #10 on: 12 Apr 2006, 12:09 »

MARLA fucking SINGER!

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« Reply #11 on: 12 Apr 2006, 13:25 »

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Sam in Garden State[/img]

Seriously? She barely had a character, her entire roll was looking cute and kissing Zach Braff.

What was there to like, really.
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« Reply #12 on: 12 Apr 2006, 14:31 »

Dude, dissing Natalie Portman is almost as suicidal as dissing Winona Rider.  A gang of skinny emo-boys are probably already waiting outside your van to attack you.

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« Reply #13 on: 12 Apr 2006, 14:36 »

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Seriously? She barely had a character, her entire roll was looking cute and kissing Zach Braff.

What was there to like, really.
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« Reply #14 on: 12 Apr 2006, 14:39 »

Kaiser Soze.
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« Reply #16 on: 12 Apr 2006, 15:54 »

What? She totally brung the movie to life.
Well I thought so.
Her energy and charisma constrasted well with Braff's character.
She was just so endearing!
Just me then ;)
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« Reply #17 on: 12 Apr 2006, 16:30 »

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« Reply #18 on: 12 Apr 2006, 16:38 »

Bullet-Tooth Tony from Snatch.  Made me a Vinnie Jones fan for life.
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« Reply #19 on: 12 Apr 2006, 19:54 »

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Very possibly the finest character study committed to film.
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« Reply #20 on: 12 Apr 2006, 19:55 »



"I wan' my father back, you son of a bitch!!!"
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« Reply #21 on: 12 Apr 2006, 21:46 »

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Bullet-Tooth Tony from Snatch.  Made me a Vinnie Jones fan for life.


No man, Tyron totally made that movie. We all know it.
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Bullet-Tooth Tony from Snatch.  Made me a Vinnie Jones fan for life.


No man, Tyron totally made that movie. We all know it.


Not quite as memorable as Tony, but he was an excellent character.  Especially because the guy who played him wasn't even an actor; he had originally been hired as security for the movie set or something like that, and they decided to give him a part.
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« Reply #23 on: 13 Apr 2006, 01:04 »



Wolf from Living In Oblivion.

Dermot Mulroney's best role ever.  And I know that's not saying much.
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« Reply #24 on: 13 Apr 2006, 01:11 »

Buddy Ackerman


Leonard Shelby


Jonas Engström (on the right, in case you've not seen Insomnia)


A gaggle of Bond villains, though I have a soft spot for Hugo Drax, because of the sheer diabolical nature of his plan.
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« Reply #25 on: 17 Apr 2006, 17:13 »

The Gals
Grace & Elaine Stalker - Arizona Dream
Joon - Benny & Joon
Layla - Buffalo '66
Lydia - Beetlejuice
Clementine - Eternal Sunshine
Lizzie Barry - The Libertine
Adele - La Fille Sur Le Pont
Carla - The Other Sister
Anyone played by Judi Dench

The Guys - (It may be advisable not to read this if you have an adverse reaction to things of the Johnny Depp kind)
Axel Blackmar - Arizona Dream
William Blake - Dead Man
Rochester - The Libertine
Spencer Armacost - Astronaut's Wife
Bon Bon & Lt Victor - Before Night Falls
Sam - Benny & Joon
Ed Wood - Ed Wood
Sands - OUATIM
Henry Hill - Goodfellas
Fred & George Jung - Blow

:| I think I'm done.
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« Reply #26 on: 17 Apr 2006, 17:39 »

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« Reply #27 on: 18 Apr 2006, 11:04 »

I don't know about you, but I'm rooting for the the eye creatures.

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« Reply #28 on: 18 Apr 2006, 11:16 »

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I refuse to watch that movie, because I hear they butchered the book (and I don't mean "It didn't have all the stuff the book had," I mean, "That's not a Catch 22 movie, that's crap"), and the book is one of my favorites ever.
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« Reply #29 on: 18 Apr 2006, 11:19 »

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Rochester - The Libertine


but you're not supposed to like him. He told us all not to like him!!!

Catch-22 isn't a bad movie, just pales next to the book.

oh and is there anything to be said for Teddy and Vern in Stand By Me?
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« Reply #30 on: 18 Apr 2006, 11:42 »

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That was the movie they were mocking on the first MST3k episode I ever saw, way back when it was on Comedy Central.  Good stuff.  If I recall, one of their weapons against the beasties were their car's headlights.
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« Reply #31 on: 18 Apr 2006, 15:31 »




Shit, I can't believe I forgot these guys the first time.
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Rochester - The Libertine


but you're not supposed to like him. He told us all not to like him!!!


What can I say, I'm a naughty girl.

I can't believe I forgot Marty McFly and Doc from BTTF. Brilliance much?
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« Reply #33 on: 18 Apr 2006, 18:15 »



Garth Algar - Waynes World

I was also going to put V, but it's already up here
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« Reply #34 on: 18 Apr 2006, 20:13 »

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I refuse to watch that movie, because I hear they butchered the book (and I don't mean "It didn't have all the stuff the book had," I mean, "That's not a Catch 22 movie, that's crap"), and the book is one of my favorites ever.


I love the movie, the book is one of my favourite books of all time and I honestly think the film completely keeps the spirit of the book while working as a film and is one of the best book to film translations I've seen.

I also agree with Marla Singer.
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« Reply #36 on: 19 Apr 2006, 09:21 »

Then maybe I'll have to watch it some time.
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« Reply #37 on: 19 Apr 2006, 09:28 »

I just saw V for Vendetta, and frankly, V is now the boxxor roxxorz.
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« Reply #38 on: 20 Apr 2006, 09:18 »

Thirding Ash, as well as



Herbert West - Re-Animater



Chris Knight - Real Genius



Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas



And both Harold & Maude - Well, y'know
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« Reply #39 on: 21 Apr 2006, 06:34 »

Ash for his big chinned chainsaw wielding antics.

Ally Sheedy pre makeover in the Breakfast Club. She's my perfect girl.

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« Reply #40 on: 21 Apr 2006, 11:02 »



Marty Blank - Grosse Pointe Blank



Derek Vinyard - American History X
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« Reply #41 on: 21 Apr 2006, 19:16 »

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« Reply #42 on: 22 Apr 2006, 05:11 »

Favorite character of all time is Atticus Finch. I'm friggin in love with Gregory Peck.
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« Reply #43 on: 22 Apr 2006, 10:05 »

Guys:

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« Reply #44 on: 22 Apr 2006, 15:57 »


Al Pacino as Michael Corleone, The Godfather saga (Especially like him in II and III)



Ewan McGregor (spelling?) Obi-Wan Kenobi


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« Reply #45 on: 22 Apr 2006, 20:34 »

I'm sorry, you're wrong.  The best Obi Wan Kenobi was the original, Sir Alec Guinness:


Just because Ale Guinness is THE MAN!
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« Reply #46 on: 22 Apr 2006, 21:07 »



BILL THE MOTHERFUCKING BUTCHER.
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« Reply #47 on: 23 Apr 2006, 05:37 »



GUYS, HE WAS ON DEAD LIKE ME GUYS. HE WAS THAT DUDE WHO ORGANIZED STUFF.  DAMNIT, AM I REALLY GOING TO HAVE TO LIST AN ENTIRE CASE HISTORY OF INIGO MONTOYA?!?

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« Reply #48 on: 23 Apr 2006, 06:52 »

Well, he was a pretty major character in Dead Like Me, but I dont know much about what else he has done. All I know is he was old, and he was pretty pissed off, and he challenged a dead waffle-house chef to a cooking throwdown and he won, somehow. It was a whole thing, and the entire time I was just saying "You killed my father! Prepare to die!!", so I dont know just how prepared for battle he was.
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« Reply #49 on: 23 Apr 2006, 16:04 »

Noone has nominated Kurt Russell for Escape From LA? For shame!
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