YAMT: Your favorite movie characters of all time?

m2kewl

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your five favorite movie characters (not actors) of any genre.

mine, no particular order:

agent smith
darth vader
axel foley (beverly hills cop)
gunnery sgt hartman (FMJ)
tang lung (bruce lee's character in Way of the Dragon fighting Colt, chuck norris' character)

edit: damn typos :eek:
 

Encryptic

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Luke Skywalker
Leonard Shelby (Memento)
Jake Gittes (Chinatown)
Indiana Jones
Agent Smith
 

conjur

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Quint/Hooper/Chief Brody      (Jaws)

Andy DuFrain     (Shawshank Redemption)

Gunnery Sgt. Hartman     (Full Metal Jacket)

Rick Blaine     (Casablanca)

Sam Spade     (The Maltese Falcon)
 

XMan

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Jean Baptiste . . . Emmanuel . . . Zorg . . . (The 5th Element)

 

Swag1138

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Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China)
Snake Plisken
Han Solo
The brothers in Boondock Saints
Mr. Pink
Mr. Hand
Buckaroo Banzai

too many to list, really.
 

flxnimprtmscl

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Tied for the best of all time are:
Pacino from Scent of a Woman
Kilmer (Doc Holiday) from Tombstone
Running a distant third is Peschi (sp?) from casino
 

Siddhartha

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Originally posted by: m2kewl
your five favorite movie characters (not actors) of any genre.

mine, no particular order:

agent smith (from the matrix)
darth vader
axel foley (beverly hills cop)
gunnery sgt hartman (FMJ)
tang lung (bruce lee's character in Way of the Dragon fighting Colt, chuck norris' character)

edit: damn typos :eek:

Nick and Nora Charles: The Thin Man movies
Forest Gump and Benjamin Buford Blue, "but people call me Bubba".
Louis Mazzini: Kind Hearts and Coronets
William Thacker: Notting Hill. He is the embodiment of all the YAGTs I have read on this forum.
Mortimer Brewster: Arsenic and Old Lace
Dr. David Huxley and Susan Vance: Bring Up Baby
Cool Hand Luke: Cool Hand Luke
James Hart and Professor Kingsfield: The Paper Chase
Mark Thackeray: To Sir With Love
Bethany: Dogma
The Princesses of Star Wars

Chose any five of the above list.
 

Rastus

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Amazing taste in characters, most of my favorites have been already mentioned. Good stuff guys.

edit: John Coffey in The Green Mile, the rest of the cast rocked too.
 

boggsie

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Jaques Clouseau (A Shot in The Dark, The Pink Panther, Return of the Pink Panther, The Pink Panther Strikes Again, ...)
Lloyd Dobler (John Cusak in Say Anything)
Sonny Corleone (James Caan in The Godfather)
Quint (Robert Shaw in Jaws)
Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood as Harry Calahan)
 

anno

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"They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions, but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
?Atticus Finch

anno (it's late.. I only have one, right now.)
 

Turkish

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I can't believe nobody mentioned these:

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) - Fight Club
Roger 'Verbal' Kint (Kevin Spacey) - The Usual Suspects
Michael 'Mike' Corleone (Al Pacino) - The Godfather Trilogy
Leonard Shelby (Guy Pearce) - Memento
Léon (Jean Reno) - Léon