Favourite Characters

[by Devol]

Robert Eroica Dupea - Five Easy Pieces
Roger - Roger Dodger
Denis Dimbleby Bagley - How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Withnail
Rupert Pupkin/Masha - King of Comedy

stole my thunder

also
Chauncey Gardener (Being There)
Jonathan (Arsenic and Old Lace)
Lee (Hannah and Her Sisters)
Bluto Blutarski and Dean Vernon Wormer (Animal House)
Vera Drake
Frank Booth and Ben (Blue Velvet)
Elvis/Sebastian (Bubba Ho Tep)
Roger Thornhill (North by Northwest)
Mystery Man (Lost Highway)
Corrado (Red Desert) (only Richard Harris performance I can tolerate)
Lt. Bill Killgore (Apocalypse Now)
Corky St. Clair (Waiting For Guffman)
Wong/Mak (Lust, Caution)
Generals Buck Turgidson and Jack D. Ripper (Dr. Strangelove)
Grim Reaper (Seventh Seal)
Alice in (.......Doesn't Live Here Anymore)
everyone - down to the freaky-haired news correspondent (Polyester)
Jedediah (Citizen Kane)
Don Logan (Sexy Beast)
Fitzcarraldo
Severine/BDJ (Belle Du Jour)
Carl (History of Violence)
Carl (ATHF)

I'm sure there's about 3,293 others, but I have to finish off with the greatest: Kieth Pratt (Nuts in May)

[ayall]

Those are some damn log lists;

I personally like daniel day lewis as daniel plainview and marlon brando as don vito corleone

[MmzHrrdb]

Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery
Jack Nicholson as Jack Torrance in The Shining
William Hurt as Richie in A History of Violence
Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard in American History X
Hugh Jackman as Tom Creo in The Fountain
Mickey Rourke as Randy "The Ram" Robinson in the Wrestler
Marisa Tomei as Cassidy/Pam in The Wrestler
Ellen Burstyn as Sara Goldfarb in Requiem for a Dream
Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers in Black Swan
Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley as Kathy Nicolo and Colonel Behrani in House of Sand and Fog
Viggo Mortensen as Nikolai in Eastern Promises
Javier Bardem as Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men
John Goodman as Charlie and Walter in Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski
Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood
Marlon Brando as Vito Corleonne in The Godfather
Burt Lancaster as Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry
Jeff Goldblum as Seth Brundle in The Fly
Warren Beatty as Bugsy in Bugsy
Bryce Dallas Howard as Ivy in The Village
Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump in Forrest Gump
Peter Finch as Howard Beale in Network (and pretty much everyone else in Network)
Warren Oates as Bennie in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
Ian McKellan as Gandalf and Magneto in The Lord of the Rings and X-Men
F. Murray Abraham as Salieri in Amadeus
James Coburn as Glen Whitehouse in Affliction
Jim Caviezel as Private Witt in The Thin Red Line
Richard Harris as Bull McCabe in The Field
Philip Seymour Hoffman as Andy Hanson in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goth in Schindler's List (and you can probably add in Liam Neeson too)
Tommy Lee Jones as Deputy Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive
Jackie Earle Haley as Rorshach in Watchmen
Charlize Theron as Eileen Wuornos in Monster
Albert Finney as Leo in Miller's Crossing

[jeg2]

Roads Less Traveled:
1. Robert Preston as the Music Man: maybe the most underrated performance ever
2. Catherine Keener as Harper Lee in "Capote": not a big role, but a great one
3. W.C. Fields as Cuthbert J. Twillie in "My Little Chickadee": comic genius
4. Nick Nolte as Tom Wingo in "Prince of Tides": his best performance in a movie that had its problems
5. Mary Steenburgen as Sister Ida in "The Grass Harp": stole the show from a cast of greats
6. Noomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salandar in the "Dragon" trilogy: the queen of movie detective fiction
7. Fred Willard as Ron Albertson in "Waiting for Guffman": the dinner was the winner
8. Burt Lancaster as Lou in "Atlantic City": great performance in a fine movie that has been lost in time

Big Time, Deservedly:
1. Charlize Theron as Aileen Wuornos in "Monster": Best Actress Oscar, Best Performance Ever?
2. Spencer Tracy as Henry Drummond (Clarence Darrow) in "Inherit the Wind": gets your blood boiling
3. Peter Sellers as several people in "Dr. Strangelove": sneakiest, most subversive movie of all time
4. Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird": a lesson on man's best possibilities
5. Uma Thurman as The Bride in the "Kill Bill" series: could anyone else have played that role?
6. John Belushi as Joliet Jake Blues in "The Blues Brothers": he's dead, and I'm still laughing
7. Julie Andrews as Mary Poppins: almost perfect in every way
8. Humphrey Bogart as Charlie Allnut in "The African Queen": well, I had to pick one his roles

[SirStuckey]

Without too much thought:

The Dude (obviously) from The Big Lebowski
Marty McFly from Back to the Future
Ellen Ripley from the Alien series
Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters
Indiana Jones from his movies
Elwood P. Dowd from Harvey
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid from their movie