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Top 100 movie characters of all time

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Top 100 movie characters of all time

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Just stumbled across this. Few dodgy ones in there I'd reckon:

Empire Magazine lists of the top 100 movie characters of all time:

1 Indiana Jones
2 The Joker
3 Darth Vader
4 Captain Jack Sparrow
5 Hannibal Lecter
6 James Bond
7 Tyler Durden (Fight Club)
8 Han Solo
9 Forest Gump
10 The Terminator
11 Jeff Lebowski (The Big Lebowski)
12 Superman
13 Tony Montana (Scarface)
14 Batman
15 Harry Potter
16 Rhett Butler (Gone With The Wind)
17 Rocky
18 Dorothy (Wizard Of Oz)
19 Derek Zoolander
20 Ash (Evil Dead)
21 John McClane (Die Hard)
22 Verbal Kint (The Usual Suspects)
23 Yoda
24 Donnie Darko
25 Jason Bourne
26 Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction)
27 Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)
28 The Bride (Kill Bill)
29 ET                                                                                                                                                          30 Freddy Krueger (Nightmare On Elm Street)
31 Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest)
32 Michael Corleone (The Godfather)
33 Ellen Ripley (Alien)
34 William Wallace (Braveheart)
35 Terry Malloy (On The Waterfront)
36 Axel Foley (Beverley Hills Cop)
37 Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
38 Aragorn (Lord Of The Rings)
39 Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)
40 Dirty Harry Callahan
41 Atticus Finch (To Kill A Mockingbird)
42 Austin Powers
43 Juno MacGuff (Juno)
44 Scarlett O'Hara (Gone With The Wind)
45 Cool Hand Luke
46 Bridget Jones
47 Rick Blaine (Casablanca)
48 Eric Draven (The Crow)
49 Mad Max
50 Obi-Wan Kenobi
51 Norman Bates (Psycho)
52 John Rambo
53 Spider-Man
54 Don Corleone (The Godfather)
55 The Man With No Name (Dollars Trilogy)
56 Charles Foster Kane (Citizen Kane)
57 Vincent Vega (Pulp Fiction)"
58 Annie Hall
59 Colonel Kurtz (Apocalypse Now)
60 Dirk Diggler (Boogie Nights)
61 Gandalf (Lord Of The Rings)
62 Gollum (Lord Of The Rings)
63 Holly Golightly (Breakfast At Tiffany's)
64 Jack Dawson (Titanic)
65 Leon (Leon)
66 Luke Skywalker
67 Barry McKenzie
68 Maria (Sound Of Music)
69 Martin Blank (Grosse Pointe Blank)
70 Marty McFly (Back To The Future)
71 Chewbacca
72 Darryl Kerrigan (The Castle)
73 Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
74 Marge Gunderson (Fargo)
75 Shrek
76 Withnail (Withnail & I)
77 Snake Plissken (Escape From New York)
78 Mick Dundee
79 Wolverine
80 Borat
81 Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
82 Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
83 Beetle Juice (Beetle Juice)
84 Edward Scissorhands
85 Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
86 Alien
87 Jack Torrance (The Shining)
88 Lt Bill Killgore (Apocalypse Now)
89 Lester Burnham (American Beauty)
90 Maximus (Gladiator)
91 Silent Bob (View Askew series)
92 Michael Myers (Halloween)
93 Tony Stark/Iron Man
94 Neo (The Matrix)
95 Vivian Ward (Pretty Woman)
96 Captain Hilts (The Great Escape)
97 Erin Brockavich
98 Gny Sgt Hartman (Full Metal Jacket)
99 Inspector Clouseau (Pink Panther series)
100 Lord Voldemort (Harry Potter series)

 
Jag2008-10-01 15:55:34

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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Two words.

Brick Tamlin.


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Han Solo isn't number 1?


Fail.
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Surely Al Gore in Inconvenient Truth?
 
Mesmerising, subtle portrayal of a man with special needs-
touching and endearing

Salmon swim upstream

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Jag wrote:


80 Borat
81 Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
82 Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
83 Beetle Juice (Beetle Juice)
84 Edward Scissorhands


 


Brilliant character......
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The Joker?????????????
 
f**k off

All I do is make the stuff I would've liked
Reference things I wanna watch, reference girls I wanna bite
Now I'm firefly like a burning kite
And yousa fake fuck like a fleshlight

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there's a few there that I'd go to see in "son of ..,  .... part two -or twelve , return of....,  etc etc
 

6 James Bond
14 Batman
31 Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest)
38 Aragorn (Lord Of The Rings)
76 Withnail (Withnail & I)
82 Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men) 
 
though sparrow went down hill a bit (or got stuck in the doledrums, if you prefer)
 
Withnail was brilliant!
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think Borat and Anton Chigurh should be way way higher up on the list. Two epic characters!
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No Tuco? (From the good, the bad & the Ugly.)
 
No Shaft?
 
No Bullett?
 
No Hawkeye Pearce?
 
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Coxey wrote:
Jag wrote:


80 Borat
81 Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
82 Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
83 Beetle Juice (Beetle Juice)
84 Edward Scissorhands


 


Brilliant character......
 
Totally agree. This guy was total psychopath and scary. Brilliantly played.
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Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci) in Goodfellas?

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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I was always amazed that Dick Dastardly from the The TV series the  Wacky Races didn't break into the movies  , his emotionally charged role as the nearly man in the dangerous  sport of rally  racing  with its   tense dialogue between him and Muttley the dog not to mention the subtle sexual undertones in his angst ridden  realationship  with the stunningly beautiful  and somewhat  coquetish Penelope Pit Stop left this viewer mentally and visually  stunned ,add to this   various exciting sub plots  involving everything from  hill billys ,mad scientists (Profesor Pat Pending) to cavemen  put  this actor,in my humble opinion,  in the same league as Olivier and Brando.
His subsequent appearance and arguably the start of his demise  in such shows as Catch the Pigeon(again with long term sidekick Muttley) was perhaps a tragic indication of this flawed geniuses   inability to make that giant leap to the big screen.
Does anyone know what happened to this wonderful   entertainer ?did he ever go on to make any films?

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Where's The Tainuia Kid?


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Kiwi Jambo wrote:
I was always amazed that Dick Dastardly from the The TV series the  Wacky Races didn't break into the movies  , his emotionally charged role as the nearly man in the dangerous  sport of rally  racing  with its   tense dialogue between him and Muttley the dog not to mention the subtle sexual undertones in his angst ridden  realationship  with the stunningly beautiful  and somewhat  coquetish Penelope Pit Stop left this viewer mentally and visually  stunned ,add to this   various exciting sub plots  involving everything from  hill billys ,mad scientists (Profesor Pat Pending) to cavemen  put  this actor,in my humble opinion,  in the same league as Olivier and Brando.
His subsequent appearance and arguably the start of his demise  in such shows as Catch the Pigeon(again with long term sidekick Muttley) was perhaps a tragic indication of this flawed geniuses   inability to make that giant leap to the big screen.
Does anyone know what happened to this wonderful   entertainer ?did he ever go on to make any films?


Things evidently haven't worked out too well for him, doing the club circuit in the UK


When Hibs, went up, to win the Scottish Cup - I wisnae there - furfuxake!

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He doesn't look exactly how I remember him.......

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

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'Comedy Stripper'?
 
 
Words can't describe the heinous.
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Gooner 4 Life wrote:
Coxey wrote:
Jag wrote:


80 Borat
81 Andy Dufresne (The Shawshank Redemption)
82 Anton Chigurh (No Country For Old Men)
83 Beetle Juice (Beetle Juice)
84 Edward Scissorhands


 


Brilliant character......
 
Totally agree. This guy was total psychopath and scary. Brilliantly played.
 
Your life depended on the toss of a coin. It would have been interesting to see what happened to him afterwards.
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ginger_eejit wrote:
Kiwi Jambo wrote:
I was always amazed that Dick Dastardly from the The TV series the  Wacky Races didn't break into the movies  , his emotionally charged role as the nearly man in the dangerous  sport of rally  racing  with its   tense dialogue between him and Muttley the dog not to mention the subtle sexual undertones in his angst ridden  realationship  with the stunningly beautiful  and somewhat  coquetish Penelope Pit Stop left this viewer mentally and visually  stunned ,add to this   various exciting sub plots  involving everything from  hill billys ,mad scientists (Profesor Pat Pending) to cavemen  put  this actor,in my humble opinion,  in the same league as Olivier and Brando.
His subsequent appearance and arguably the start of his demise  in such shows as Catch the Pigeon(again with long term sidekick Muttley) was perhaps a tragic indication of this flawed geniuses   inability to make that giant leap to the big screen.
Does anyone know what happened to this wonderful   entertainer ?did he ever go on to make any films?


Things evidently haven't worked out too well for him, doing the club circuit in the UK

"DRATT  DRATT AND DOUBLE DRATT THAT PESKY PIGEON!!"


Kiwi Jambo2008-10-02 17:44:47

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I see Verbal Kint as Keyser Soze gets a mention but is nowhere near high enough. And if Marty McFly is in the list Dr Emmet Brown should be too.
I notice that Andy Dufresne from Shawshank Redemption is there, but so many of the others could also be, Boggs Diamond is one of the great evil bastards of the cimema and Heywood is well cool too.
Finally, what about Dennis Hopper's character in Speed? Classic psycho evil (can't remember the character's name though).
And agree with everyone about Anton Chigurh, masterful.
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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These polls should not allow characters from films released in the past year - makes the list unfairly biased.

David Thewlis' character in Mike Leigh's 1993 film Naked.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/

Adjectives fail me right now, but an awesome performance.
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Wyatt aka Captain America (Easy Rider)
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Where the f**k is Ghost Dog??
You know we belong together...

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Oska wrote:
Where the f**k is Ghost Dog??


In the special list of Jim Jarmusch's over sanctified characters and incredibly slow paced movies list?

though I liked the movie at the time, just watched a few of his since...


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Champ Kind from Anchorman should be very high on that list.
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Borat should be higher
 
and wheres spongebob, Patrick, Dr Evil and Mini Me
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Bevan wrote:
These polls should not allow characters from films released in the past year - makes the list unfairly biased.

David Thewlis' character in Mike Leigh's 1993 film Naked.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/

Adjectives fail me right now, but an awesome performance.

yep- classic- disturbing- his monologue about the number of the beast truns up on an Orb track on the albumn Orblivion- greta movie-thanks for the reminder bevan

Salmon swim upstream

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everyone who starred in Porkies
I like tautologies because I like them.
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Fletch (Chevy Chase).
Nix, Leyton Orient and Alloa Athletic supporting schmuck.

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thats a craphouse list. no ivan drago? what about lincoln hawk from over the top?

and for once i agree with frankie mac, the joker at 2 is ridiculous.
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What a sexist and racist f**king list! There's about 10 female characters in there and two black characters!! (Axel Foley and Jules Winnfield, unless you count Darth Vader as well).

Goddamn Hollywood crackers, what about these great black characters...

John Shaft (Shaft)
Ivan (The Harder They Come. As played by the great Jimmy Cliff.)
Apollo Creed (Rocky)
Agent J (Men In Black)
Detective Alonzo Harris (Training Day. Denzel Washington won an Oscar for that one)
Principal Joe Clark (Lean On Me)
Jackie Brown (Jackie Brown)
Leticia Musgrove (Monsters Ball. Halle Berry won an Oscar for that one also)
Ron Tidwell (Jerry McGuire. Another Oscar for Cuba Gooding Jnr)

That's just off the top of my head and without even getting into the Spike Lee joints...




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Oh and on the subject of the top 100 movie characters of all time, I think the truck in Steven Spielberg's 1971 movie Duel should be in there too. Awesome performance, plus it's black!

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What about Henry fonda in "Once Upon A Time in the West" - His only ever bad guy role and he was brilliantly bad!!

Cleveland Little as the Black Sheriff in Blazing Saddles

The banjo player in Deliverence. It (The film) and he, became cult classics despite being from the Waiarapa.
Lonegunmen2008-10-05 23:28:17
Proud to have attended the first 175 Consecutive "Home" Wellington Phoenix "A League" Games !!

The Ruf, The Ruf, The Ruf is on Fire!!

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What about every Mexican, Arab and Latin American character Cliff Curtis has ever played in a hollywood film?

Special mention for Virus I think it is where he actually gets to be Maori and ad lib about Kohanga Reos, before being the first character to get killed off in the first 5 minutes.


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