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| Tweet Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,516 Views) | |
| Aaron | Aug 17 2015, 06:29 AM Post #46 |
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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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| YancySkancy | Aug 17 2015, 08:49 AM Post #47 |
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Yeah, when I added him I actually thought "Oh, I bet he'll be on Karim's list too." |
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| YancySkancy | Aug 17 2015, 08:51 AM Post #48 |
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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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| Russ | Aug 17 2015, 02:13 PM Post #49 |
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Henry Graham Posted Image 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 Posted Image Played by Jack Nance Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977) Memorable scene - Nance becoming a father...of sorts. Nominated by Dirt Horace Femm Posted Image Played by Ernest Thesiger The Old Dark House (James Whale, 1932 Memorable quote – "Have a potato." Nominated by Yancy Hilts 'The Cooler King' Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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) Posted Image 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 Posted Image “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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 | Aug 17 2015, 02:24 PM Post #50 |
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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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| YancySkancy | Aug 17 2015, 03:12 PM Post #51 |
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I guess I'm in the minority that would pick Sidney over J.J. But more great choices! |
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| YancySkancy | Aug 17 2015, 03:13 PM Post #52 |
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By the way, four characters named Henry have made this list. |
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| Continental Op | Aug 17 2015, 03:24 PM Post #53 |
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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 | Aug 17 2015, 03:37 PM Post #54 |
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Bark! Go away
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Jean/Eve Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image "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 | Aug 17 2015, 04:11 PM Post #55 |
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After all.....
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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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| YancySkancy | Aug 17 2015, 04:29 PM Post #56 |
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“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 | Aug 17 2015, 05:22 PM Post #57 |
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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. | Aug 17 2015, 05:47 PM Post #58 |
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I'm just (pleasantly) shocked that The Telephone Book was nominated on any list! |
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| Russ | Aug 17 2015, 06:48 PM Post #59 |
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Bark! Go away
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Jon Savage Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image "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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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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| Russ | Aug 18 2015, 06:29 AM Post #60 |
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Bark! Go away
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Lucien Lacombe Posted Image Played by Pierre Blaise Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle, 1974) Memorable quote – "I don't like people talking down to me." Nominated by Aaron Lulu Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image "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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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 Posted Image 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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