Antoine Doinel in 400 Blows, Apu especially in Aparajito, and Bobby Five Easy Pieces Dupea, which might add up to too much information; I pretty much identify with all of Hal Ashby’s assorted misfits in some way; a few of the Yi Yi characters as well. Suffice to say, it’s been a strange life: mistakes, surprises, stories.
Robocop. Because sometimes I feel like half robot.
Shane.
Man, who knew all the bad motherfuckers of the world spent so much time in movie forums?
Ah Celine in Before Sunrise/Set… probably because I feel like I’ve lived that story about 5 times
Two Leaud characters come to mind, namely Antoine Doinel (mostly in The 400 Blows and Antoine et Colette), and Paul in Masculin-Feminin.
A long time ago, I was James Dean’s Jim of course, in REBEL. But weren’t we all?
Then there was that dark period in the middle when I identified too closely with Rip Torn in COMING APART.
Nowadays, maybe Michael Murphy in AWAY FROM HER. (He should have been given an Academy Award for Best Performance by a Mute.)
@ Zach
Ha man, me too, i’m so in love with her! and with scarlett johansson in “lost in translation”.
recently, i found many many similarities with the main character of the flawed “in search of a midnight kiss”. I’m also pretty much the same as john cusack in “high fidelity”, jean-pierre leaud’s character in the antoine doinel series, woody allen in “annie hall” and “manhattan” and so on…
Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
I’m like Buster Douglas Knocking out Mike Tyson and winning the heavyweight championship in 1990……….wait…..was that a movie?
i remember 3 or four different people telling me after they watched The Big Lebowski: it’s just like you!!…
those were the days!
Dear Xavier:
Your comment just reminded me that I’ve been told by a lot of people I remind them of Kevin Dolenz (Andrew McCarthy’s character) from “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
I’m alarmingly like Joel from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I’m just me.
I’m mostly like Hans Beckert, except I’m more fidgety.
Clarence Worley (True Romance) except my conscience is Frank Sinatra.
I’m a lot like Cinesnag.
When I watched Synecdoche, New York I couldn’t help but feel that Caden was me in 20 years. Not very flattering, but at least I’m honest.
Today it’s Orson Welles in his later overly bloated “Touch of Evil” days. I haven’t been eating very well.
If I had to choose a character most similar to myself, it would probably be the one of Blake (Michael Pitt) in Gus Van Sant’s Last Days… which isn’t really a good sign, is it?
Charles Foster Kane
it made me feel sick watching how his mind works and his manipulation of things, i had to turn it off twice.
I think part of the reason I really like Oliver Stone’s Alexander while everyone else hates it is that I could totally identify, for better and worse, with Alexander’s motives and actions. I’m not an Imperialist by any means but that sort of unrealistic ambition, which I believe he thought positive, and the heartbreaking idea of not realising such a goal was very powerful I thought. To be considered an over-the-top dreamer for having big ideas that no-one else cares for is, I think, a necessary by-product of being a cinephile and absorbing romantic stories day after day. If Alexander’s army had just watched some films, maybe their heart would have been in it more.
Despite the fact I just signed on as a philandering Imperialist in the last post, I think the character I fear ever turning into most is the father from Little Miss Sunshine. I overthink things tremendously, but would hate to ever have found a philosophy that I felt totally described life and drill it into everyone else as well. It’s a genuine fear of the power of ego.
I’m sure the people who relate to Kane must feel a similar way. Or maybe you celebrate and embrace ego? Maybe I’m too cowardly not to. I feel a day of Woody Allen like neurosis coming on.
Johnny from “Naked”.
Dalton from Roadhouse
Hell yes.
“Life is a BANQUET, and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death!”
That’s the best outlook on life any film has ever given the world. Thank you, Auntie Mame!
There are a few for me however, the top 3 (in no particular order) are Alex Owens, Amelie Poulain, Caroline Dester.
Can you guess from which three films these characters derive? (one is a dead giveaway)…there will be a PRIZE awarded. :)
Yolanda, Flashdance, Amelie and Enchanted April are the films…
now let me at the prize…
HAL 9000….I don’t handle criticism well.
Haha just kidding. Honestly it is more that I will relate to a certain scene in a movie for a character than a whole character. Sometimes something will happen to a character or they will say something, and I feel like it could be me. I think we all have some Travis Bickle in us at times.
Justin Biberkopf
Kazu, I see what you mean by your display picture. The resemblance is quite uncanny.