Six pages tallied and 16 days until HG Wells’ birthday, so members keep submitting a list of 10 of your Favorite film characters of all time.
Remember — no need to place in order as there will be no extra points for being the top choice, just total numbers. Please no Honorable Mention, just 10 to ease the tally. Please list the CHARACTER’S name first.
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Male:
Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) – The Human Condition Trilogy
King Faisal (Alec Guinness) – Lawrence of Arabia
Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) – Gladiator
Neil (Joseph Gordon Levitt) – Mysterious Skin
Female:
Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) – Rosemary’s Baby
Sadako – Ringu/ The Ring Trilogy
Erika Kahout (Isabelle Hupert) – The Piano Teacher
Juliete Hardy (Brigitte Bardot) – And God Created Women
Somewhere in between:
Divine/ Babs Johnson (Divine) – Pink Flamingos
Candy (Candy Darling) – Women In Revolt
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Betty – Betty Blue
Alex – Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood & Lovers on the Bridge
Buddy Love – The Nutty Professor
Zazie – Zazie Dans Le Metro
Mabel Longhetti – A Woman Under The Influence
George Eastman – A Place In The Sun
Jack Torrance – The Shining
Rupert Pupkin – The King Of Comedy
Marty Piletti – Marty
Travis – Paris, Texas
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Michael Corleone in the Godfathers
Urbain Grandier in the Devils
Charles Foster Kane in that one movie
Jake la Motta in Raging Bull
Diane Selwyn in Mulholland Drive
Jack in the Tree of Life
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
Jake Gittes in Chinatown
Cosmo Vitelli in the Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China
I kept it to protags
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Philip Marlowe – The Long Goodbye
Easy Andy – Taxi Driver
Joe Gideon – All That Jazz
Dixon Steele – In a Lonely Place
Hanshiro Tsugumo – Harakiri
Faye – Chungking Express
Catherine – Jules et Jim
Jeanne Dielman – Jeanne Dielman …
Tanya (or ‘Tana’) – Touch of Evil
Poppy – Happy Go Lucky
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I appreciate you taking the time
Oh, Poppy is a great choice! She is the entire movie and one of my favorite titles from the last ten years. Too bad my mind blanked on her for my list.
I think Poppy is a great character and a great performance. So many people I know think that her character is either “not believable” or an “obnoxious caricature” whereas I think she is both believable and layered- I think it was an amazing performance of a person who has a complicated emotional life but is also busy “performing” as many of us do in life. There was a thread a while back about movies one feels one has to always defend, and I think this film has been that for me.
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Dix Steele – In a Lonely Place (Nicholas Ray)
Marigo – Le Franc (Djibril Diop Mambety)
Marie i and Marie ii – Daisies (Vera Chytilova)
Projectionist – Sherlock, Jr. (Buster Keaton)
Celine and Julie – Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette)
Brian Cohen – Life of Brian (Terry Jones)
Kaji – The Human Condition (Masaki Kobayashi)
Neelkantha (played by Ritwik Ghatak) – Reason, Debate, and a Story (Ritwik Ghatak)
Antoine – 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut)
Stevan – Young and Healthy as a Rose (Jovan Jovanovic)
It changes every day, but that’s the list for now.
Dumbo
Anju in Sansho the Bailiff
Delphine in The Green Ray
Alice in Alice in the Cities
what a lovely group to share a desert island with.
Delphine is one of the leading ladies in the count
Yeong-lim – With the Girl of Black Soil
Renko – Moving
Pharaon De Winter – L’humanité
Unni – Rat Trap
Shizuku Tsukishima – Whisper of the Heart
Jacques – Quatre nuits d’un rêveur
Un homme qui dort – Un homme qui dort
Barry Lyndon – Barry Lyndon
Karl-Oskar – Utvandrarna & Nybyggarna
Myra Savage – Seance on a Wet Afternoon
Yes Shizuku =D
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Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht) in Berlin Alexanderplatz
Jacques (Guillaume des Forêts) in Quatre nuits d’un rêveur
Irma Vep (Musidora) in Les vampires
The neighbour (Grace Zabriskie) in Inland Empire
Marianne Renoir (Anna Karina) in Pierrot le fou
Zazie (Catherine Demongeot) in Zazie dans le métro
Céline (Juliet Berto) in Céline et Julie vont en bateau
Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) in Twin Peaks
Colin (Jean-Pierre Léaud) in Out 1, noli me tangere
HAL 9000 (Douglas Rain) in 2001: A Space Odyssey
chalked up, thanks for submitting a list
Dav I.D.
Daniel Plainview There Will Be Blood
Chow Mo-wan In the Mood for Love
Anton Chigurgh No Country for Old Men
The Man Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Philippe Gerbier Army of Shadows
Jef Costello Le Samourai
Travis Bickle Taxi Driver
Galadrial The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
T.E. Lawrence Lawrence of Arabia
Jeanne d’Arc The Passion of Joan of Arc