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What are the best written film characters of the past ten years?

Will C

almost 4 years ago

Christoph Waltz as Col. Hans Landa, INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS

Erebus

almost 4 years ago

Pretty much every character in The Proposition

Elle Driver

strawda​wg

almost 4 years ago

There are plenty I’m forgetting, but here are a few of the great characters that I can watch again and again.

Ellen Burstyn, Requiem for a Dream
Daniel Day-Lewis, There Will Be Blood
Forrest Whittaker, The Last King of Scotland
Kevin Spacey, American Beauty
Fred Willard, Best In Show
Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Aviator
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Love, Liza

MEDIOCR​ITIC

almost 4 years ago

Really surprised no one has mentioned The Dude.

Justin Marble

almost 4 years ago

OK I came into say the Dude so I’m glad you beat me to it Mediocritic. Also throwing my support behind Ben Linus and Omar Little. Well, really just every character on the Wire, but its not really fair since they do have 5 seasons of character growth as opposed to an hour and a half.

Roman Petrov

almost 4 years ago

Absolutely Charlie and Donald Kaufman in “Adaptation.”

Yes, The Joker.

Leonard Shelby in “Memento”

L.A.™

almost 4 years ago

Ennis del Mar from Brokeback Mountain had so much depth and beauty it was a shame that Heath Ledger didn’t win his Oscar for that performance!

MovieFr​eak4702

almost 4 years ago

Randy The Ram – The Wrestler
Harvey Dent – The Dark Knight
Tyler Durden – Fight Club
Carl Fredrickson – Up
Jimmy Markum – Mystic River
Billy Costigan – The Departed
Harvey Milk – Milk
Walk Kowalski – Gran Torino
Anton Chigurh – No Country For Old Men
Bullet Tooth Tony – Snatch
Theo Faron – Children Of Men
Harry – In Bruges
Eli – Let The Right One In
Edward Bloom – Big Fish
Frank T.J. Mackie and Claudia Wilson Gator – Magnolia
Frank Ginsberg – Little Miss Sunshine

Richard David Pitre

almost 4 years ago

Max Fischer in Rushmore
Matteo in The Best of Youth

Greasem​an64

almost 4 years ago

Gabriel Byrne’s character (Tom) in Miller’s Crossing. He reminded me of character Humphrey Bogart would play with his quips and shady motives, but he was both colder to his enemies than Bogart was and, in some parts, warmer to his friends.

Dalin

almost 4 years ago

Patrick Kitten-Breakfast on Pluto
Clarence & Alabama-True Romance
Bonnie and Clyde
Han Solo- Star Wars
Cahit-Gegen Die Wand
Mickey & Mallory Knox-Natural Born Killers
Alex- A Clockwork Orange

Mike Spence

almost 4 years ago

Um, ten years folks.

Glemaud

almost 4 years ago

The Dude is 1998. I’m no mathematician, but….

Dalin

almost 4 years ago

yes i know… i want to write.

Jonathan Doser

almost 4 years ago

I agree, Owen Sound.

Miles Raymond (Sideways)

Rupert Pupkin

over 1 year ago

Frank TJ Mackey – Magnolia – Tom Cruise
Daniel Plainview – There Will Be Blood – Daniel Day Lewis
Mark Zuckerberg – Social Network – Jesse Eisenburg
Howard Hughes – The Aviator – Leonardo DiCaprio
The Dude – Big Lebowski – Jeff Bridges
Walter – Big Lebowski – John Goodman
(and ive got a feeling phillip seymour hoffman and joaquin phoenix are going to be amazing in the master)