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Favorite Characters - Nominees
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,516 Views)
Aaron
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The only reason I thought of it was because I almost went with Safety Last for "The Boy." It was basically a coin flip.
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Karim Amir,Aug 17 2015
07:43 AM
Continental Op,Aug 16 2015
06:40 PM
Hans Landa almost made my list. With guys like Tarantino/Coens/etc, hard not to list several from their worlds.

I cannot believe that I forgot Hans Landa!!!

Yeah, when I added him I actually thought "Oh, I bet he'll be on Karim's list too."
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Aaron,Aug 16 2015
08:21 PM
Look at all those WC Fields fans.

Nice to see. I didn't vote for him, but I will say that another character from one of those films will be showing up here shortly.
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Henry Graham

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Played by Walter Matthau
A New Leaf (Elaine May, 1971)
Memorable quote – "Excuse me, you're not by any chance related to the Boston Hitlers?"
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Henry Spencer

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Played by Jack Nance
Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)
Memorable scene - Nance becoming a father...of sorts.
Nominated by Dirt


Horace Femm

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Played by Ernest Thesiger
The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932
Memorable quote – "Have a potato."
Nominated by Yancy


Hilts 'The Cooler King'

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Played by Steve McQueen
The Great Escape (John Sturges, 1963)
Memorable quote – " I haven't seen Berlin yet, from the ground or from the air, and I plan on doing both before the war is over."
Nominated by Dirt


Hud Bannon

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Played by Paul Newman
Hud (Martin Ritt, 1963)
Memorable quote – "The only question I ever ask any woman is "What time is your husband coming home? ""
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Hussar Biswambhar Roy

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Played by Chhabi Biswas
The Music Room (Satyajit Ray, 1958)
Memorable scenes - The extravagant musical endeavors put forth by a man who is a slave to both the past and his own pride.
Nominated by Guy


Insurance Salesman (guy looking for Carl LaFong)

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Played by T. Roy Barnes
It’s a Gift (Norman Z. McLeod, 1934)
Memorable quote –
Insurance Salesman: "Do you know a man by the name of LaFong? Carl LaFong? Capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. LaFong. Carl LaFong."
Harold: "No, I don’t know Carl LaFong – capital L, small a, capital F, small o, small n, small g. And if I did know Carl LaFong, I wouldn’t admit it!"
Nominated by Yancy


J.J. Hunsecker

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“Match me, Sidney.”

Played by Burt Lancaster
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957)
Memorable quote – "I love this dirty town."
Nominated by Guy, Conty, Mr. Jiggy


Jackie Brown

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Played by Pam Grier
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
Memorable quote – "Shut your raggedy-ass up, and sit the fuck down!"
Nominated by Maxime


Jim Wilson

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Played by Robert Ryan
On Dangerous Ground (Nicholas Ray, 1951)
Memorable quote – "Why do you make me do it? You know you’re gonna talk! I’m gonna make you talk! I always make you punks talk! Why do you do it? Why?"
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy
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Aaron
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Well done guys, voting for J.J. I would have definitely voted for him if I thought about it.
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Aaron,Aug 17 2015
05:24 PM
Well done guys, voting for J.J. I would have definitely voted for him if I thought about it.

I guess I'm in the minority that would pick Sidney over J.J.

But more great choices!
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YancySkancy
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By the way, four characters named Henry have made this list.
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Continental Op
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Our first trifecta mention! I think…

And Maxime, good call on Jackie Brown…I went with a different character from that flick :)
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Russ
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Jean/Eve

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Played by Barbara Stanwyck
The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Memorable quote –
Jean Harrington: "Boy, would I like to see you givin' some old harpie the three in one!"
“Colonel" Harrington: "Don't be vulgar, Jean. Let us be crooked, but never common."
Nominated by Guy, Mr. Jiggy


Jean-Dominique Bauby

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Played by Mathieu Amalric
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Julian Schnabel, 2007)
Memorable quote – "Like a sailor seeing the shore disappear, I watch my past recede, reduced to the ashes of memory."
Nominated by Karim


Jerry Mitchell

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Played by Casey Siemaszko
Three O'Clock High (Phil Joanou, 1987)
Memorable quote – "Its a good read, fast angry sexual. I was thinking about the syntax and how it affected the overall mood. Particularly in the more expository passages; in the fifth chapter where honey meets the whole Australian soccer team."
Nominated by Karim


Jesminder Bhamra

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Played by Parminder Nagra
Bend It Like Beckham (Gurinder Chadha, 2002)
Memorable quote – "Me? Kissing? A boy? You're mad. You're all bloody mad."
Nominated by Karim


Jesse and Celine

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Played by Ethan Hawke, Julie Delp
Before Sunrise, Before Sundown, Before Midnight (Richard Linklater, 1995, 2004, 2013)
Memorable quote –
Celine: "Maybe we should meet here in five years or something."
Jesse: "All right, all right, five year- Five years! That's a long time!"
Celine: "It's awful! It's like a sociological experiment!"
Nominated by Aaron


Jesus Quintana

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Played by John Turturro
The Big Lebowski (Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1998)
Memorable quote – "You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus."
Nominated by Russ


Joel Cairo

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Played by Peter Lorre
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston 1941)
Memorable quote – "You... you bungled it. You and your stupid attempt to buy it. Kemedov found out how valuable it was, no wonder we had such an easy time stealing it. You... you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you."
Nominated by Guy


John Smith

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Played by Norman Rose
The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
Memorable quote – “It’s not that I’m disfigured. It’s just that I have trouble communicating with people eye to eye. I make obscene phone calls. I have perfected it as a science. I could seduce the President, his wife, his children and his grandparents, but I have no political aspirations. I’m not just a lot of talk. That’s what I do.”
Nominated by Yancy


Johnny

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Played by David Thewlis
Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993)
Memorable quote – "Was I bored? No, I wasn't fuckin' bored. I'm never bored. That's the trouble with everybody - you're all so bored. You've had nature explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the living body explained to you and you're bored with it, you've had the universe explained to you and you're bored with it, so now you want cheap thrills and, like, plenty of them, and it doesn't matter how tawdry or vacuous they are as long as it's new as long as it's new as long as it flashes and fuckin' bleeps in forty fuckin' different colors. So whatever else you can say about me, I'm not fuckin' bored."
Nominated by Maxime


The Joker

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"Why so serious?"

Played by Heath Ledger
The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan, 2008) (Kid C adds, “all variations”)
Memorable quote – "They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these... these civilized people, they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
Nominated by Kid C, Russ
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Dirt
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After all.....
YancySkancy,Aug 17 2015
07:12 PM
Aaron,Aug 17 2015
05:24 PM
Well done guys, voting for J.J. I would have definitely voted for him if I thought about it.

I guess I'm in the minority that would pick Sidney over J.J.

That was my gut reaction as well...but the list is alphabetically listed by character so Sidney may just come up. I didn't vote for either, but both were given serious consideration. I really didn't want to list the same actor at multiple roles and Lancaster was an issue. In the end I finally bumped him completely and I'm sorry for that. I'm hoping this one character comes up later ...that will be my first deviation from my original list that would make my final list.
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Russ,Aug 17 2015
06:37 PM
John Smith

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Played by Norman Rose
The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon, 1971)
Memorable scene – Barry Morse’s cameo…as ‘Har Poon’.
Nominated by Yancy

“It’s not that I’m disfigured. It’s just that I have trouble communicating with people eye to eye. I make obscene phone calls. I have perfected it as a science. I could seduce the President, his wife, his children and his grandparents, but I have no political aspirations. I’m not just a lot of talk. That’s what I do.”
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Aaron
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Seeing Johnny from Naked (great choice) reminded me that I didn't nominate Withnail. I hope someone did.
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.
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I'm just (pleasantly) shocked that The Telephone Book was nominated on any list!
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Jon Savage

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Played by Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Savages (Tamara Jenkins, 2007)
Memorable quote – "We're not in therapy now - we're in real life."
Nominated by Karim


Large Marge

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Played by Alice Nunn
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
Memorable quote – "Be sure and tell 'em Large Marge sent ya!"
Nominated by Russ


Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

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"I love the smell of napalm in the morning."


Played by Robert Duvall
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Memorable quote – "Charlie don’t surf!"
Nominated by Russ


Lili Von Shtupp

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Played by Madeline Kahn
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974)
Memorable quote – "Hello, handsome, is that a ten-gallon hat or are you just enjoying the show?"
Nominated by Russ


Linda

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Played by Linda Manz
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)
Memorable quote – "Nobody's perfect. There was never a perfect person around. You just have half-angel and half-devil in you."
Nominated by Maxime


Little Bill Daggett

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Played by Gene Hackman
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992)
Memorable quote –
Little Bill Daggett: "First off, Corky never carried two guns. Though he should have."
W.W. Beauchamp: "No, no, he was, he was called "Two-Gun Corcoran.""
Little Bill Daggett: "Yeah well, a lot of folks did call him "Two-Gun" but that wasn't because he was sporting two pistols. That was because he had a dick that was so big it was longer than the barrel of that Walker Colt that he carried."
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Long John Silver

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Played by Wallace Beery
Treasure Island (Victor Fleming, 1934)
Memorable quote – "There's so much stupidity in here that I can't breathe properly."
Nominated by Dirt


Lorelei Lee

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Played by Marilyn Monroe
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Howard Hawks, 1953)
Memorable quote –
Esmond Sr.: "Have you got the nerve to tell me you don't want to marry my son for his money?"
Lorelei Lee: "It's true."
Esmond Sr.: "Then what do you want to marry him for?"
Lorelei Lee: "I want to marry him for YOUR money."
Nominated by Guy


Loulou

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Played by Gérard Depardieu
Loulou (Maurice Pialat, 1980)
Memorable scene – A brawl between Depardieu and Marchand in a courtyard, followed by a drink together as evidence of the French form of civilised behaviour.
Nominated by Maxime


Lucia Harper and Martin Donnelly

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Played by Joan Bennett and James Mason
The Reckless Moment (Max Ophüls, 1949)
Memorable quote –
Martin: "She's lucky to have a mother like you."
Lucia Harper: "Everyone has a mother like me. You probably had one, too."
Nominated by Maxime
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Lucien Lacombe

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Played by Pierre Blaise
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974)
Memorable quote – "I don't like people talking down to me."
Nominated by Aaron


Lulu

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Played by Louise Brooks
Pandora's Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929)
Memorable quote – "You'll have to kill me to get rid of me."
Nominated by Maxime


M. Gustave

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Played by Ralph Fiennes
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
Memorable quote – "You see, there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. Indeed that's what we provide in our own modest, humble, insignificant... oh, fuck it."
Nominated by Guy


Maj. Calloway

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Played by Trevor Howard
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Memorable quote –
Calloway: "Go home Martins, like a sensible chap. You don't know what you're mixing in, get the next plane."
Martins: "As soon as I get to the bottom of this, I'll get the next plane."
Calloway: "Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals."
Martins: "Mind if I use that line in my next Western?"
Nominated by Kid C


Marcello Rubini

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Played by Marcello Mastroiaani
La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini, 1960)
Memorable quote – "You are the first woman on the first day of creation. You are mother, sister, lover, friend, angel, devil, earth, home."
Nominated by Aaron


Margo Channing

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"Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night!"


Played by Bette Davis
All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950)
Memorable quote – "Bill's thirty-two. He looks thirty-two. He looked it five years ago, he'll look it twenty years from now. I hate men."
Nominated by Guy


Maria ‘Cabiria’ Ceccarelli

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Played by Giulietta Masina
The Nights of Cabiria (Federico Fellini, 1957)
Memorable quote – "Madonna, Madonna, help me to change my life. Bestow your grace on me too. Make me change my life."
Nominated by Guy, Mr. Jiggy


Marge Gunderson

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Played by Frances McDormand
Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1996)
Memorable quote – "So that was Mrs. Lundegaard on the floor in there. And I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper. And those three people in Brainerd. And for what? For a little bit of money. There's more to life than a little money, you know. Don'tcha know that? And here ya are, and it's a beautiful day. Well. I just don't understand it."
Nominated by Kid C


Mary Poppins

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Played by Julie Andrews
Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
Memorable quote – "In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and - SNAP - the job's a game!"
Nominated by Dirt


Mason

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Played by Tilda Swinton
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
Memorable quote – "Know your place. Keep your place. Be a shoe."
Nominated by Yancy
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