Top 5 Favorite Movie Characters

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My list

 

1. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) "True Romance"

 

2. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) "Fight Club"

 

3. Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) "Tombstone"

 

4. Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) "Chasing Amy"

 

5. Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton Jr.) "American History X"

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#1: Verbal Kint(Kevin Spacey) "The Usual Suspects"

#2: Tyler Durden(Brad Pitt) "Fight Club"

#3: Derek Vinyard(Edward Norton Jr.) "American History X"

#4: Selina Kyle/Catwoman(Michelle Pfeiffer) "Batman Returns)

#5: Mr. Orange(Tim Roth) "Reservoir Dogs"

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

1. Ted the Bellhop-(Tim Roth)-Four Rooms

3. Dr. Gonzo-(Benicio Del Toro)-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

5. Bricktop-(don't know his name)-Snatch

2. Leo Bloom-(Gene Wilder)-The Producers

4. Verbal Kint-(Kevin Spacey)-The Usual Suspects

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1. Quint from Jaws. It gets no saltier and hilarious than this guy. Jaw dropping speech plus constant quotable lines.

 

2. Jules from Pulp Fiction. Similar to Quint in that he's got a million lines worth quoting, plus hilarious throw away lines, but his shining moment is his very serious speech at the end.

 

3. Budd from Kill Bill Volume 2. I just love every sad, pathetic thing about this character.

 

4. Kiriyama from Battle Royale. Book version is more interesting, but the movie one is great too. His hair alone makes him a top fiver.

 

5. Derek Vinyard from American History X. Poor guy is just a mess, gets it all together and then in the end, it essentially all goes back to shit.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I bet there's going to be a lot of Verbal Kints on this list.

[Guest Askewniverse]

In no order:

 

1. Banky Edwards (Jason Lee) - Chasing Amy

2. Ash (Bruce Campbell) - Evil Dead trilogy

3. Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) - Pulp Fiction

4. Brodie Bruce (Jason Lee) - Mallrats

5. Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro) - The Godfather Part II

[Guest Coffey]

1.) Antonio "Tony" Montana (Al Pacino) "Scarface"

2.) Jesus Quintana (John Turturro) "The Big Lebowski"

3.) Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) "Pulp Fiction"

4.) "Mr. Pink" (Steve Buscemi) "Reservoir Dogs"

5.) Paul Smecker (Willem DeFoe) "The Boondock Saints"

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Gen. Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) from Dr Strangelove

Rev. Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) from The Night of the Hunter

Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell) from Escape from New York

Walker (Lee Marvin) from Point Blank

Harry Lime (Orson Welles) from The Third Man

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Tony Montana(Al Pacino) in Scarface

William Munny(Clint Eastwood) in Unforgiven

Vincent Vega(John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction

Travis Bickle(Robert De Niro) in Taxi Driver

Agent Sands(Johnny Depp) in Once Upon a Time in Mexico

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1. Agent Sands - Johnny Depp - Once Upon a Time in Mexico

 

2. Sam - Johnny Depp - Benny and Joon

 

3. Marquis de Sade - Geoffrey Rush - Quills

 

4. The Abbe du Coulmier - Joaquin Phoenix - Quills

 

5. Kurt Wagner/Nightcrawler - Alan Cumming - X2: X-Men United

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I couldn't just do five and leave it at that. This list is not in any order except for the #1 spot. After this top ten, I have listed a couple of more picks for different things.

 

1) Kate Winslet - Clementine Kruczynski - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

 

2) Rutger Hauer - John Ryder (The Hitch Hiker) - The Hitcher

 

3) Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman - Adaptation

 

4) Bruce Campbell - Ashly 'Ash' J. Williams - The Evil Dead Series

 

5) Anthony Hopkins - Dr. Hannibal Lecter - The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy

 

6) Kevin Spacey - Lester Burnham - American Beauty

 

7) Kevin Spacey - Roger 'Verbal' Kint - The Usual Suspects

 

8) Jack Nicholson - Randle Patrick McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

 

9) Michael J. Fox - Marty McFly - The Back to the Future Trilogy

 

10) Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones - The Indiana Jones Trilogy

 

 

SPECIAL MENTIONS:

 

My Favorite Character Actor - Had I not done this, Johnny Depp could have dominated the list. So I just thought I'd stick him down here.

 

My Favorite Non-Human Characters - Puss In Boots from Shrek 2 and Gizmo from the Gremlins films go here.

 

Also, both of the lead characters in My Sassy Girl belong on my list eventually, especially Ji-hyun Jun.

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1. Dr Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) "Re-Animator": Best Mad Scientist character EVER

 

2. Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) "Fight Club": I think that theres a little bit of Tyler in all of us.

 

3. Kakihara (Tadanabu Asano) "Ichi the Killer": IMO, the ultimate sadist, and one of the best villains ever portrayed in recent memory.

 

4. Leatherface (Gunner Hanson) "Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)": Still the best cannibal/inbred psycho ever portayed on the big screen.

 

5. Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine) "Silence of the Lambs": "Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me."

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I'll let you guys guess who my top five are.

 

1. (when asked what he'll be drinking) "Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd."

 

2. "You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake."

 

3. "That's when I knew I never would have come back from Florida alive."

 

4. "You want some ice cream, Doc?"

 

5. "I made coffee through Desert Storm."

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8) Jack Nicholson - Randle Patrick McMurphy - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

6. R.P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

 

7. Ben Sanderson (Nicholas Cage) "Leaving Las Vegas"

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Alozno Harris, Training Day

Randall, Clerks

Jules Winfield, Pulp Fiction

Mr. Pink, Resvivor Dogs

Nino Brown, New Jack City

 

Honorable Mention:

Smokey, Friday

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(Tom Jane) The Punisher/Frank Castle: The Punisher

(Al Pacino) Tony Montana: Scarface

(Michael Masden) Mr. Blonde: Resvoir Dogs

(Peter Sellers) Inspector Clouseu: Pink Panther Movies

(Kevin Hefferman) Rodney Farva: Super Troopers

(Kurt Russel) Wyatt Earp: Tombstone

(Arnold S) Harry Tasker: True Lies

(Kevin Spacey) Verbal Kint: Usual Suspects

(Hugh Jackman) Wolverine: X-Men 2

(Bruce Campbell) Ash: Evil Dead Movies

(Arnold S) The Terminator: The Terminator Movies

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Tyler Durden "Fight Club"

 

Napoleon "Napoleon Dynamite"

 

T-1000 "Terminator"

 

Samurai Jack "Samurai Jack ( ...what he had a movie ! )

 

Hannibal Lecture "Hannibal Series"

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Ah this is hard just to pick five. So these are really the first five that came in my head, and in no order:

 

Joe Hallenbeck (Bruce Willis, Last Boy Scout)

Ash (Bruce Campbell, Evil Dead series)

Dagger (Andy Lau, God of Gamblers)

Peter Venkman (Bill Murray, Ghostbusters)

Tony Montana (Al Pacino, Scarface)

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In no particular order:

 

Spicoli (Sean Penn) - Fast times at Ridgemont High

 

Mark Hunter/Hard Harry (Christian Slater) - Pump up the Volume

 

Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) - Lethal Weapon series (and his Mad Max character gets an honourable mention as well)

 

Jules Winfield (Samuel L Jackson) - Pulp Fiction

 

Cyrus the Virus (John Malkovich) - Con Air

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What, nobody knows who my quotes are from? 2, 4 and 5 are pretty easy.

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2. Fight Club

4. The Shining

5. Black Hawk Down

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i can't do just five, everyone except N° 1 is in no-order

 

1. Ash from Evil Dead Trilogy

 

2. Captain Sparrow PotC

3. Vincent from Collateral

4. Hicks from Aliens

5. Seth Gecko from From Dusk Till Dawn

6. Roger from Dawn of the Dead

7. Predator

8. Shaun & Ed, Shaun of the Dead

9. Marty McFly BTTF

10. Bullseye from Daredevil

11. Agent Smith from Matrix Trilogy

12. Gizmo and Stripe from Gremlins 1,2

13. Puss In Boots from Shrek 2

 

and tons more

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in no particular order:

 

Bill the Butcher (Daniel Day-Lewis, Gangs of New York)

 

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson, As Good As It Gets )

 

Willie (Billy-Bob Thronton, Bad Santa)

 

The Man With The Plan (Christopher Walken, Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead )

 

Walter Sobchak (John Goodman, The Big Lebowski )

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No order here.

 

1.) Henry Chinaski -- Barfly

 

2.) Travis Bickle -- Taxi Driver

 

3.) Nosferatu -- Nosferatu

 

4.) Holly Golightly -- Breakfast at Tiffany's

 

5.) Sonny -- Dog Day Afternoon

 

Didn't put a lot of thought in it so those might not necessarily be my top five... but they'd all definitely make my top ten.

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Dammit I hate getting into these threads so late.....well here we go.

 

Jack Burton(Kurt Russell) - Big Trouble in Little China

 

Snake Pliskin(Kurt Russell) - Escape from NY

 

Ray Liotta(Henry Hill) - Goodfellas

 

Vince Vaugn(Trent/Ricky Slade) - Swingers/Made (same character basically, but he is suave in Swingers, and a fuckup in Made..hilarious stuff)

 

Walter (John Goodman) - The Big Lebowski

 

Drexel(Gary Oldman) - True Romance

 

more to come later surely......

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The first four that came to my mind:

 

Harry Callahan -- Dirty Harry

William 'Bill' Munny -- Unforgiven

John Rawlins -- Glory

Randal Graves -- Clerks

 

I couldn't think of a fifth...

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Drexl Spivey (Gary Oldman) - True Romance

 

Norman Stansfield (Gary Oldman) - The Professional

 

Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) - American Beauty

 

Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) - 12 Monkeys

 

Trent (Vince Vaughn) - Swingers

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I couldn't pick 5, so I went with a top ten as well ... and this is in no order, it'd be way too tough to put them in a definitive order.

 

Mike Damone from Fast Times @ Ridgemont High

Leatherface (aka Bubba Sawyer, Jr.) from the original Tx Chainsaw Massacre

Coach Harris from Revenge of the Nerds (easily John Goodman's best work)

Agent Norman Stansfield from the Professional (Gary Oldman has to be somewhere on this list, and this is my favorite role for him)

Mickey O'Neil from Snatch

Henry Chinaski from Barfly

Bud from Repo Man

Bob McKenzie from Strange Brew

Doug McKenzie from Strange Brew

Reggie Dunlop from Slapshot

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Banky Edwards (Chasing Amy)

Vincent (Collateral)

Dirty Harry (duh)

Snake Plissken (Escape From New York)

Rocky Balboa (Rocky)

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No particular order. I realize that four of them are based on characters from books, but hey, what can you do?

 

Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck, To Kill A Mockingbird)

Samwise Gamgee (Sean Astin, LOTR series)

Grimm (Bill Murray, Quick Change)

Brad Hamilton (Judge Reinhold, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins, Shawshank Redemption)