Top Five Favorite Film Characters

Some that came up just now…

Margot Tenenbaum (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Charlotte (Lost in Translation)
John Bender (The Breakfast Club)
Toto (Cinema Paradiso)
Enid (Ghost World)
Ricky Fitts (American Beauty)
Alvy Singer (Annie Hall)
Aron Ralston (127 Hours)
Alice (Closer)

From the top of my head:

1) Edie, the Egg Lady – Pink Flamingos

2) Elvira – In a Year with 13 Moons

3) Anonymous worker (Themroc) – Themroc

4) Virginia (Spider Baby) – Spider Baby or, The Maddest Story Ever Told

5) The Snake – The Little Prince

Honorable Mention:
Ismael – Fanny and Alexander

Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) — To Kill a Mockingbird
Ruth Popper (Cloris Leachman) — The Last Picture Show
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) — Shadow of Doubt
Harry Lime (Orson Welles) — The Third Man

Urgh, five is far too few.

Faye (Faye Wong) — Chungking Express
Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier) — Rebecca
Neely O’Hara (Patty Duke) — Valley of the Dolls — only partially kidding

Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel, Antoine Doinel!

Male:
Michael Gold – The Big Chill
Vito Corleone – The Godfather
Robert Dupea – Five Easy Pieces
Snake Pliskin – Escape From LA, Escape From New York
Jules Winfield – Pulp Fiction

Female: 
Rayette Dipesto – Five Easy Pieces
Mary Iselin – Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Sister Aloysius Beauvier – Doubt
Nurse Ratched – Omne Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
Annie Porter – Speed

This list will be obsolete as soon as it’s posted…

Could never do an all-time top5, but at the moment (in no particular order):

1) Klaus Daimler (Willem Dafoe) – The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

2) Mouth (Corey Feldman) – The Goonies.

3) Han Solo (Harrison Ford) – Star Wars IV, V, VI.

4) Any of the Bill Murray roles in the following: Lost In Translation, Rushmore, Life Aquatic.

5) Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) – Amelie.

My top five are:

1. Deanie Loomis (Natalie Wood), Splendor in the Grass

2. Matthew Garth (Montgomery Clift), Red River

3. Raphael “Rafe” Copley (George Peppard), Home from the Hill

4. Edith Cortright (Mary Astor), Dodsworth

5. Johannes Borgen (Preben Lerdorff Rye), Ordet

1. Frank Booth from Blue Velvet
2. Charlie from Barton Fink
3. Faye from Chungking Express
4. Ethan Edwards from The Searchers
5. John ‘Scottie’ Ferguson from Vertigo

(if I could add one more it’d be Donnie Smith from Magnolia)

1. Jedi from Star Wars
2. Rocky from Rocky
3. Jason from Friday the 13th
4. Han Solo from Star Wars
5. Joyce from Txt (2006)

1. Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson from Bronson
2. Mark Wahlberg as Dignam from The Departed
3. Jason Schwartzman as Max Fischer from Rushmore
4. Johnny Depp as Ed Wood from Ed Wood
5. Christopher Mintz-Plasse as McLovin from Superbad

2 that made me cry
Toto as a child, from Cinema Paradiso
Cabiria, from Nights of Cabiria

2 motherfuckers that made me laugh
Bateman, from American Psycho
Ordell, from Jackie Brown
Also i would say any neurotic character from W. Allen.

2 who disturbed me
Erika, from The Piano Teacher
Trelkovsky, from The Tenant

1. Anthony Hopkins as Dr Hannibal Lecter
2. Warren Oates as G.T.O from Two Lane Blacktop
3. Richard E. Grant as Withnail from Withnail & I
4.Gary Oldman as Stansfield from Leon: The Professional
5. River Phoenix as Mike from My Own Private Idaho

:)

runner up : David Carradine as Bill from Kill Bill

1. Alex De Large (Malcolm McDowell) from A Clockwork Orange
2. Mike (River Phoenix) from My Own Private Idaho
3. Yoda from Star Wars
4. The Log Lady from Twin Peaks
5. Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks
i guess the last two isnt really from a film, but lets just say its an overall twin peaks thing, with fire walk with me and all that

Hell, here’s some more.
Luke in Cool Hand Luke
Captain Williard-Apocolypse Now
Sonny in the Godfather
the condor,Robert Redford, in 3 days of the Condor
Col. Thursday in Fort Apache

Walter (John Goodman)- Big Lebowski
Muraki (Ryo Ikebe) – Pale Flower
Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) – Mean Streets
Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke) – Barfly
Tatewaki Asano (Tatsuya Nakadai) – Samurai Rebellion

Adolf Hitler in “Triumph of the Will”

Only five, so…

1. Don Fabrizio Salina (The Leopard)
2. Betty/Rita/Diane/Camilla (Mulholland Drive)
3. Hrundi V. Bakshi (The Party)
4. M. Hulot
5. Christopher Emanuel Balestraro (The Wrong Man)

1. Norman Bates (Psycho)
2. Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry)
3. Vito Corleone (The Godfather)
4. Dr. Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs)
5. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)

Five only?? Please, I’ve got a Top 50.

i’d say mine would be:

Atticus Finch — To Kill a Mockingbird
Han Solo — Star Wars IV, V, VI
Michael Corleone — Godfather I, II
Tom Hewett — Match Point
Ray — In Bruges

1. Ray (In Bruges)
2. Driver (Drive)
3. Randal (Clerks)
4. Clementine (Eternal Sunshine Of A Spotless Mind)
5. Ginger (Ginger Snaps)

Here we go:

1. Warren Oates as G.T.O. from Two-Lane Blacktop
2. Benoît Poelvoorde as Ben in Man Bites Dog
3. Bruno S. as Bruno Stroszek in Stroszek
4. Robert Crumb as Robert Crumb in Crumb
5. Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson in Bronson

1. Jeff Bridges as The Dude (The Big Lebowski)
2. Billy Bob Thornton as Ed Crane (The Man Who Wasn’t There)
3. Kevin Spacey as Roger ‘Verbal’ Kint (The Usual Suspects)
4. Frances McDormand as Marge Gunderson (Fargo)
5. Adrien Brody as Wladyslaw Szpilman (The Pianist)

1. Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview (There Will Be Blood)
2. David Thewlis as Johnny (Naked)
3. Patty McCormack as Rhoda (The Bad Seed)
4. Christopher Guest as Corky St. Clair (Waiting for Guffman)
5. Jason Schwartzman as Max Fisher (Rushmore)

Honorable mentions are Tom Hardy as Charles Bronson in Bronson, Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Roberto Benigni as Guido in Life is Beautiful, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Scottie in Boogie Nights. :)

1) Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
2) Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho
3) Frances McDormand as Margie in Fargo
4) Song Kang-Ho as Park Dong-jin in Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
5) Amy Adams as Ashley in Junebug

This is tough but I’ll just give the ones that quickly come to mind:

1. Montgomery Clift as Robert E. Lee Prewitt in From Here to Eternity
2. Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Psycho
3. Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire
4. Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather and Godfather, Part II
5. James Franco as Aron Ralston in 127 Hours

At the present moment:

1.) Roman Polanski as Trelkovsky in The Tenant (Polanski, 1976)
2.) Issei Ogata as Emperor Hirohito in The Sun (Sokurov, 2005)
3.) Zoe Lund as Thana in Ms. .45 (Ferrara, 1981)
4.) Catherine Deneuve as Severene/Belle de jour in Belle de jour (Bunuel, 1967)
5.) Joan Fontaine as Lisa in Letter From an Unknown Woman (Ophuls, 1948)

Also at the moment:

1) Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) – Taxi Driver
2) Johnny (David Thewlis)- Naked
3) Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando/Robert De Niro) – The Godfather Pt. I/II
4) Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) – There Will Be Blood
5) Woody Allen’s persona/character in the majority of his films.

Yeah, I kinda cheated.

wow, can’t believe since i posted 5 months ago my #1 has become my #3. new top 5:

1. lucas jackson (paul newman) in COOL HAND LUKE
2. elwood p. dowd (jimmy stewart) in HARVEY
3. sanjuro (toshiro mifune) in YOJIMBO and SANJURO
4. alonzo the armless (lon chaney) in THE UNKNOWN
5. bulscu (sandor csanyi) in KONTROLL

Blokes:
Harmonica (Charles Bronson- Once Upon A Time In The West)
Jake Hollmann (Steve McQueen- Sand Pebbles)
Murakami (Toshiro Mifune- Stray Dog)
Brian Mills (Liam Neeson- Taken)
Charlie Croker (Michael Caine- Italian Job)

Gals:
Princess Mononoke
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver- Alien anthology)
Enid (Thora Birch- Ghost World)
Valentine (Irene Jacob- Three Colors: Red)
Alice (Milla Jovovich- Resident Evil series)

Seriously, just five?

Thomas Torless (Mathieu Carriere) in Young Torless (Volker Schlondorff, 1966)
Momo, or Mohammed (Sami Ben Youb) in Madame Rosa (Moshe Mizrahi, 1977)
A nameless seventeen years old Hungarian boy (Andras Kozak) in My Way Home (Miklos Jancso, 1965)
Miss Julie (Anita Bjork) in Miss Julie (Alf Sjoberg, 1951)
Gedya (Soso Jachvliani) in The Wishing Tree (Tengiz Abuladze, 1976)

If only I can choose, at least, five more:

Milos Hrma (Vaclav Neckar) in Closely Watched Trains (Jiri Menzel, 1966)
Severine (Catherine Deneuv) in Belle de jour (Luis Bunuel, 1967)
Ivan (Nikolai Burlyaev) in Ivan’s Childhood (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962)
Marusa (Dusa Pockaj) in Dancing in the Rain (Bostjan Hladnik, 1961)
Electra (Irene Papas) in Electra (Mihalis Kakogiannis, 1962)