Greatest Movie Characters

[LivingDeadGirl]

In the new issue of Premiere magazine they list their 100 Greatest Movie Characters. Here are the top 20:

1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind
4. Norman Bates of Psycho
5. James Bond of Dr. No
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In The Heat of The Night

Here's a link to the complete list:
www.premieremag.com/article.asp?section_id=6&article_id=1539&page_number=12#nosmileys

[ZapRowsdower]

Missing from that list:

Randal Graves, from "Clerks."
Jesus Quintana, from "The Big Lebowski" (Although the Dude is on there, I believe)
Milton Waddams, from "Office Space"
Madmartigan, Willow, and the Brownies, from "Willow"
Jay and Silent Bob, from the New Jersey movies
Casey Ryback, from "Under Siege"
Han Solo, from "Star Wars"
The Bride, from "Kill Bill"
The J-Man, from "Envy" (even though Envy sucked)
Donald Kaufman, from "Adaptation."
Agent Sands and El Mariachi, from the El Mariachi trilogy
Master Betty, from "Kung Pow: Enter the Fist"
Professer G.H. Dorr, from "The Ladykillers"
Kuni, from "UHF"
Igor (Eye-gore), from "Young Frankenstein"
R.M. Renfield, from "Dracula: Dead and Loving It"
Ahchoo, from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
Bart, from "Blazing Saddles"
Doctor Rumack, from "Airplane!"
Brodie Bruce, from "Mallrats"
B-Rad, from "Malibu's Most Wanted"
Timon and Pumbaa, from "the Lion King"
Any character played by Mike Myers, "Austin Powers"
Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar, "Wayne's World"
George from "Scary Movie 3"
Loc Dog from "Don't Be a Menace to South Central..."
Vincent Vega, "Pulp Fiction"
Vic Vega, "Reservoir Dogs"
Leeloo, "The Fifth Element"
Rick Deckard, "Blade Runner"

[Heineken Skywalker]

"Missing from that list:

Jesus Quintana, from "The Big Lebowski" (Although the Dude is on there, I believe)
The Dude is #55.

Han Solo, from "Star Wars"
Han didn't make it, but Darth Vader was #84.

Any character played by Mike Myers, "Austin Powers"
Dr. Evil is #35.

Vincent Vega, "Pulp Fiction"
Jules Winnfield was #44."

I think because there are so many potentials, they were trying to limit it to not more than one character from a movie.
I saw this article in PREMIERE as well and almost started a thread about it. I think out of the top twenty, my favorite would have to be Indiana Jones.

Who's everybody's favorite in the top twenty?

[Father Red]

Somehow they missed Tuco from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, yet they mentioned Joe (Blondie).

Also missing were Renfield (Dwight Frye), Dr. Pretorious (Ernest Thiseiger), Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), and Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney Jr.) from the Universal Camp.

Cushing's Van Helsing and Lee's Dracula from Hammer.

Vincent Price's character in the House on Haunted Hill.

John Wayne as Rooster Cogburn.

Ian McKellan as James Whale.

Those are the ones that immediately come to mind anyway.

[Bartwald]

Heineken said:

Who's everybody's favorite in the top twenty?

Mine would be Indiana Jones. But James Bond is just behind him.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Mine would have to be the good ol' Godfather. Followed by Scarlett O'Hara & Hannibal.

My additions to the list would be:

Verbal Kint(Usual Suspects)
Han Solo
Jay & Silent Bob(as Smitty mentioned)
Severin(Bill Paxton, Near Dark)
Denzel Washington's character from Glory...can't think of the name right now.
Vic Vega(I think Smitty mentioned him too...)
Stiffler(American Pie)
Rhett Butler(GWTW)

Those are just off the top of my head.

[LivingDeadGirl]

Heineken said:

"I saw this article in PREMIERE as well and almost started a thread about it.

See, great minds think alike! ;D

[frankenjohn]

I have that issue too!

And do you remember who 69 was, Livingdeadgirl?

[LivingDeadGirl]

Yep, Mr. Brando again.(On The Waterfront)

[frankenjohn]

Umm...sorry. 68.

[Heineken Skywalker]

livingdeadgirl said:

See, great minds think alike! ;D

Don't you mean "sick" minds?? ;D

"Umm...sorry. 68."

It's your avatar! Alex from A CLOCKWORK ORANGE.
My avatar was #84. ;D

[LivingDeadGirl]

"Don't you mean "sick" minds?? "

Yeah, that would probably be a more appropriate description.

[ZapRowsdower]

Add on to the list:

Achilles and Hector, from Troy (Just saw it tonight. It's an excellent movie)

Jesus of Nazareth, from the Passion of the Christ (Caviezel's performance is too good to go without mentioning)

John McClane, from Die Hard

The Metatron, from Dogma

Gretchen Wieners, Janis Ian, and Mr. Duvall from Mean Girls... Ok, not really the best of all time, but worth mentioning.

Happy Gilmore, from Happy Gilmore

Willie and Marcus, possibly Bob Chipeska, from Bad Santa

Enid, from Ghost World

I assume Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket is on the list... If not, he should be.

Phil Connors, from Groundhog Day

[LivingDeadGirl]

"John McClane, from Die Hard"

Great character! Even though I've never been a big Bruce Willis fan.

I would also add "Hans" (Alan Rickman) from Die Hard. One of THE best villians ever imo.

[frankenjohn]

Nice to see McCane getting a mention...I mean "Yippie kay yay...!" ;D