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Favorite Characters - Nominees
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,510 Views)
Russ
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Welcome to the nomination phase of the RTCD Fugee "Favorite characters in cinema". Without further ado, here are your first ten nominees.
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Addison DeWitt

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Played by George Sanders
Film – All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
Memorable quote - "Look closely, Eve. It's time you did. I am Addison DeWitt. I am nobody's fool, least of all yours."
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Alex DeLarge

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Played by Malcolm McDowell
Film – A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Memorable quote - "It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen."
Nominated by Dirt


Anaïs Pingot

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Played by Anaïs Reboux
Film – Fat Girl (Catherine Breillat, 2001)
Memorable quote - I want my first time to be with someone I don't love.
Nominated by Maxime


Andy Dufresne

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Played by Tim Robbins
Film – The Shawshank Redemption (Frank Darabont, 1994)
Memorable quote - "You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook."
Nominated by Karim


Antoine Doinel

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Played by Jean-Pierre Léaud
Film – The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959)
Memorable quote - "Oh, I lie now and then, I suppose. Sometimes I'd tell them the truth and they still wouldn't believe me, so I prefer to lie."
Nominated by Aaron, Maxime


Anton Chigurh

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Played by Javier Bardem
Film – No Country for Old Men (Ethan Coen, Joel Cohen, 2007)
Memorable quote - "You know how this is going to turn out, don't you?"
Nominated by Conty


Apu

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Played by Subir Banerjee, Smaran Ghosal, Soumitra Chatterjee
Films – The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray, 1955, 1956, 1959)
Memorable scene - In Pather Panchali, Apu and his sister's first glimpse of a train in motion.
Nominated by Aaron


Arthur Jensen

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Played by Ned Beatty
Film – Network (Sidney Lumet, 1976)
Memorable quote - "They say I can sell anything. I'd like to try to sell something to *you*."
Nominated by Conty


Atticus Finch

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Played by Gregory Peck
Film – To Kill A Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan 1962)
Memorable quote - "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
Nominated by Dirt


Audrey II

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Voiced by Levi Stubbs
Film – Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986)
Memorable quote - "Does this look "inanimate" to you, punk? "
Nominated by Russ
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Aaron
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Good start. Surprised I was the only one with Apu.
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Balthazar

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(various donkeys)
Film – Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966)
Memorable scene – Balthazar makes eye contact with a lot of circus animals.
Nominated by Yancy


Barry

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Played by Eric Bogosian
Talk Radio (Oliver Stone, 1988)
Memorable quote – " Sticks and stones can break your bones but words cause permanent damage!"
Nominated by Conty


The Beast

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Played by Jean Marais
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) plus the Disney version
Memorable quote – "Belle, you mustn't look into my eyes. You needn't fear. You will never see me, except each evening at 7:00, when you will dine, and I will come to the great hall. And never look into my eyes."
Nominated by Aaron


Ben

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Played by Duane Jones
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968)
Memorable quote – "Now get the hell down in the cellar. You can be the boss down there, but I'm boss up here!"
Nominated by Conty


Bill Roberts

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Played by George Bancroft
The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)
Memorable quote – "Are you goin' to let me have a good time in my own quiet way - or am I gonna take this place apart?"
Nominated by Maxime


Blake

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Played by Alec Baldwin
Glengarry Glenn Ross (James Foley, 1992)
Memorable quote – "You want to know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes BRASS BALLS to sell real estate."
Nominated by Conty


Brigid O’Shaughnessy

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Played by Mary Astor
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941)
Memorable quote – "I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know."
Nominated by Guy


Bugs Bunny

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Voiced by Mel Blanc
What’s Opera, Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957) plus, many other appearances
Memorable quote – "Well, what did you expect in an opera? A happy ending?"
Nominated by Guy


Can of mixed vegetables

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Voiced by Jon Benjamin
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001)
Memorable quote – "If you wanna smear mud on your ass, smear mud on your ass - just be honest about it."
Nominated by Yancy


Capt. Henri Rochard

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Played by Cary Grant
I Was a Male War Bride (Howard Hawks, 1949)
Memorable quote – "My name is Rochard. You'll think I'm a bride but actually I'm a husband. There'll be a moment or two of confusion but, if we all keep our heads, everything will be fine."
Nominated by Maxime
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Perhaps my hand has been tipped a little by Arthur and Blake already showing up…during this process, I found several of my favorite characters to have a low minute count, but high impact…on me, and as characters in the film. And usually highly quotable.

Aaron
 
Surprised I was the only one with Apu.


I should probably watch those films! :blush:

Can of Mixed Vegetables…there's outside the box thinking, well done Yancy

Audrey II, awesome…reminds me I should have thought of Orin for my list, would have probably made it on a different day
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Can of mixed vegetables. I should have done Lars von Trier as Pie.

One correction: my vote of Beast was for both the Cocteau and Disney films. I assumed remakes count.
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Didn't realise it was going to be unveiled like this - great stuff.

Good picks so far - Balthazar is inspired.
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As my picks of Balthazar and the can of vegetables show, my list was all over the place.
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I'm dying at the can of mixed vegetables. DYING.

Great stuff so far. Thanks, Russ! :D
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@Karim: I just figured out why you married Aaron. He *does* bear a resemblance to Andy Dufresne.

:P
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Russ,Aug 15 2015
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@Karim: I just figured out why you married Aaron. He *does* bear a resemblance to Andy Dufresne.

:P

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Captain Louis Renault

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Played by Claude Rains
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)
Memorable quote –
" I'm shocked... shocked to find that gambling is going on in there."
"Your winnings sir."
"Oh, thank you very much."

Nominated by Kid C


Carol

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Played by Catherine Deneuve
Repulsion (Roman Polanski, 1965)
Memorable scene – The establishment of Carol’s paranoia the first time she is alone in the apartment, ending with a static shot of a family photo from Carol’s youth. Her parents and sister have all posed for the photo, while a young Carol stands in the background, staring blankly off into the distance…
Nominated by Aaron


Cat

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Played by Wang Qizan
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)
Memorable scene – The first time Cat goes on stage to sing.
Nominated by Russ


Catherine the Great

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Played by Tallulah Bankhead
A Royal Scandal (Otto Preminger, 1945)
Memorable quote – "Nobody has a right to tell you to go back except me. And if I want you to go back, you’ll go back. And I’ll tell you WHEN to go back, WHERE to go back and HOW to go back. And you’re not going back!"
Nominated by Russ


Celine and Julie

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Played by Juliet Berto and Dominique Labourier
Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974)
Memorable scene and quote –The entire last third of the film, in the “haunted house”. Barbet Schroeder’s character has this memorable line: "There is a homosexual pancreas in the closet."
Nominated by Kid C


Chernabog

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Fantasia (Wilfred Jackson (Night on Bald Mountain), 8 others)
Memorable scenes – Chernabog unfurls his wings for the first time; Lightning strikes to give us a clearer view of Chernabog.
Nominated by Dirt


Charles Plumpick

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Played by Alan Bates
King of Hearts (Philippe de Broca, 1966)
Memorable scenes – The inmates become the new residents of the village.
Nominated by Karim


Clive Candy/Colonel Blimp

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Played by Roger Livesey
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1943)
Memorable quote – "Until now, Germany has used her arms with honor…*pause*…I admit he said nothing about her legs."
Nominated by Aaron


Coffin Joe

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Played by José Mojica Marins
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (José Mojica Marins, 1964) plus many other ‘Coffin Joe’ films
Memorable quote – "What is life? It is the beginning of death. What is death? It is the end of life! What is existence? It is the continuity of blood. What is blood? It is the reason to exist!"
Nominated by Kid C


Cody Jarrett

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Played by James Cagney
White Heat (Raoul Walsh, 1949)
Memorable quote – "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!"
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy
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You could combine Catherine the Great with The Scarlet Empress. I actually almost nominated her. Now that would be cool to get the same character nominated for two different films.
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Aaron,Aug 15 2015
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You could combine Catherine the Great with The Scarlet Empress. I actually almost nominated her. Now that would be cool to get the same character nominated for two different films.

The Scarlet Empress will show up, but perhaps not in the way you suggest.
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Aaron, whenever Criterion finally decides to get around to releasing Yang's A Brighter Summer Day, I know you'll be all over it. Is it even on Hulu yet?
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