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Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,515 Views)
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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


Name drop alert! I met/worked with Parminder on an ABC pilot this past March…it didn't get picked up. Not her fault, of course. Was probably mine.
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Maurice Legrand

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Played by Michel Simon
La chienne (Jean Renoir, 1931)
Memorable scene – Simon reacts upon learning of a betrayal.
Nominated by Maxime


Max

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Played by Mel Gibson
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) (plus the Road Warrior sequels)
Memorable quote – "The chain in those handcuffs is high-tensile steel. It'd take you ten minutes to hack through it with this. Now, if you're lucky, you could hack through your ankle in five minutes. Go."
Nominated by Dirt


Max

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Played by Jean Gabin
Touchez pas au Grisbi (Jacques Becker, 1954)
Memorable quote – "That's the trouble with young people - they're so doggone young!"
Nominated by Maxime


Max Cherry

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Played by Robert Forster
Jackie Brown (Quentin Tarantino, 1997)
Memorable quote –
Max Cherry: "I'll bet, besides maybe an afro, you look exactly how you did at 29."
Jackie Brown: "Well, my ass ain't the same."
Max Cherry: "Bigger?"
Jackie Brown: "Yeah."
Max Cherry: "Ain't nothin' wrong with that!"
Nominated by Conty, Mr. Jiggy


Max Fischer

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Played by Jason Schwartzman
Rushmore (Wes Anderson, 1998)
Memorable quote –
Herman Blume: "What's the secret, Max?"
Max Fischer: "The secret?"
Herman Blume: "Yeah, you seem to have it pretty figured out."
Max Fischer: "The secret, I don't know... I guess you've just gotta find something you love to do and then... do it for the rest of your life. For me, it's going to Rushmore."
Nominated by Conty, Guy, Mr. Jiggy


Melanie Daniels

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Played by Tippi Hedren
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)
Memorable quote – "Have you ever seen so many gulls? What do you suppose it is?"
Nominated by Maxime


Melvin Udall

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Played by Jack Nicholson
As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997)
Memorable quote –
Melvin Udall: "Did you have sex with her?"
[Carol comes out of the bathroom]
Melvin Udall: "Oh, sorry. I didn't know she was here. Did you have sex with her?"
Nominated by Karim


Michael Sullivan Jr.

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Played by Tyler Hoechlin
Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002)
Memorable quote –
Betty the Waitress: "So what brings you guys to the middle of nowhere?"
Michael Sullivan, Jr.: "We're bank robbers."
Nominated by Karim


Mike Schank

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American Movie (Chris Smith, 1999)
Memorable quote – "Okay, so I'm at this party, alright, and I have three hits of acid. So I drop one, and the next thing I know, I'm on the ground. So she dragged me onto her lawn, and then her grandmother came home and said I had to go to the hospital. So I woke up in the hospital and searched my pockets for the other two hits of acid, because I wanted to drop them there. But they were gone because they had taken them from me. And they told me that it was just some blotter paper with some acid on it, and they told me I was gonna die. But they just kept me in there for a month, then told me I was the worst case they had ever seen, and let me go. Yeah. I've got a million stories like that."
Nominated by Russ


Minnie Castavet

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Played by Ruth Gordon
Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968)
Memorable quote – " Oh, are you pregnant?"
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy
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Can't believe I didn't think of Max Cherry, especially since I just revisited the film a couple of months back. He's got a good shot at making my final ballot.
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Can't believe I didn't think of Max Cherry, especially since I just revisited the film a couple of months back. He's got a good shot at making my final ballot.


Yay! He's an all timer for me…as soon as Russ came up with this idea, Max Cherry (among a few others) immediately sprang to mind.

Max Cherry, Max Fischer, JJ Hunsecker…I feel like me and Mr. Jiggy are becoming best friends.

Russ, going back to Dolemite, I almost put Petey Wheatstraw on my list…I have you to thank for that!
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Even though it's been more time-and-labor-intensive than I had originally imagined, it's been a blast putting the nominees thread together. Lots of films I want to see and/or see again. Going through this thread is like a constant reminder of why we love cinema as much as we do (as if we needed any reminding).
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A Ryan Seacrest type.
I'm having fun seeing the nominee parade, and wishing I hadn't given up on submitting my own list. :fresh:
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vornporn,Aug 18 2015
07:06 PM
I'm having fun seeing the nominee parade, and wishing I hadn't given up on submitting my own list. :fresh:

I would have loved to have seen it. But it's ok. We'll always have the final rankings (you'd better participate).

:)
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Mr. Chips

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Played by Robert Donat
Goodbye Mr. Chips (Sam Wood, 1939)
Memorable quote – "I thought I heard you saying it was a pity... pity I never had any children. But you're wrong. I have. Thousands of them. Thousands of them... and all boys."
Nominated by Dirt


Mr. Creosote

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Played by Terry Jones
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, 1983)
Memorable quote –
Maitre d': "Good evening sir and how are we today?"
Mr. Creosote: "Better."
Maitre d': "Better?"
Mr. Creosote: "Better get a bucket. I'm gonna throw up."


Nominated by Russ


Mr. Matuschek

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Played by Frank Morgan
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)
Memorable quote –
Hugo Matuschek: "Eh, close the door. Kralik, why did you put me in that situation, in front of the whole shop?"
Alfred Kralik: "Well, I'm very sorry, sir... but it was not my fault."
Hugo Matuschek: "Well whose fault was it? Mine?"
Alfred Kralik: "Well... yes."
Nominated by Guy


Mr. T

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Played by Robert Hooks
Trouble Man (Ivan Dixon, 1972)
Memorable quote –
Billy Chi, Chalky's Goon: "Chalky sent me to say he wanted to see you on some business, Mr. T."
Mr. T: "You go tell Chalky he can kiss my black ass."
Nominated by Yancy


Monsieur Hulot

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Played by Jacques Tati
Mon Oncle, Playtime (Jacques Tati, 1958, 1967)
Memorable scenes – A bewildered Hulot constantly tries to come to grips with things that make no sense to him.
Nominated by Russ, Aaron


The Monster

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Played by Boris Karloff
Frankenstein (James Whale, 1931) (plus sequels)
Memorable quote – Henry Frankenstein: "It's alive, IT'S ALIVE!"
Nominated by Yancy


Musashi Miyamoto

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Played by Toshirô Mifune
Samurai Trilogy (Hiroshi Inagaki 1954-1956)
Memorable scenes – In Samurai III, the beautifully composed final scenes with Musashi and Otsu and the climactic battle between Musashi and Kojiro.
Nominated by Aaron


Musidora

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Played by Irma Vep
Les Vampires (Louis Feuillade, 1915)
Memorable scenes- The vampires “vamping it up” as captured by Feuillade’s atmospheric cinematography.
Nominated by Kid C


Nick Charles

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Played by William Powell
The Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934) (plus sequela)
Memorable quote –
" Nick Charles: I'm a hero. I was shot twice in the Tribune."
" Nora Charles: I read where you were shot 5 times in the tabloids."
" Nick Charles: It's not true. He didn't come anywhere near my tabloids."

Nominated by Dirt


Norma Desmond

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"All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

Played by Gloria Swanson
Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950)
Memorable quote –
Joe Gillis: "You're Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big."
Norma Desmond: "I *am* big. It's the *pictures* that got small."
Nominated by Russ
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See Yancy? I came up with another "from behind" shot that works just as well. ;)
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Russ,Aug 18 2015
04:21 PM
See Yancy? I came up with another "from behind" shot that works just as well. ;)

Yeah, Mr. T is so cool all we need to see is his armed arm. :)
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YancySkancy,Aug 18 2015
06:07 PM
Yeah, Mr. T is so cool all we need to see is his armed arm. :)

I preferred him as Clubber Lang
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.,Aug 18 2015
05:20 PM
YancySkancy,Aug 18 2015
06:07 PM
Yeah, Mr. T is so cool all we need to see is his armed arm.  :)

I preferred him as Clubber Lang

Don't confuse the issue, Dude.
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Novalyne Price

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Played by Renee Zellweger
The Whole Wide World (Dan Ireland, 1996)
Memorable quote – "Well, yeah, that's right, thanks indeed, thank God! If it wasn't for teachers like me, there would be more individuals like you, socially inept, hatin the world, prattlin off pompous ideas that no one wants to hear in the first place. Bob Howard, if you do not take some initiative you are going to end up a miserable old man, sittin at home with no friends and no life. And another thing! Don't you ever EVER imply that I do not know how to teach, because then you really are talking about something that you know nothing about. Now why don't you run on home, your momma's waitin for you."
Nominated by Karim


Nurse Ratched

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Played by Louise Fletcher
One Flew Over the Cockoo’s Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
Memorable quote – "If Mr. McMurphy doesn't want to take his medication orally, I'm sure we can arrange that he can have it some other way."
Nominated by Russ


Old Lodge Skins

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"Today is a good day to die."

Played by Chief Dan George
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn, 1970)
Memorable quote –
Old Lodge Skins: "Let's go back to the teepee and eat, my son. My new snake wife cooks dog very well."
Jack Crabb: "All right, Grandfather."
Old Lodge Skins: "She also has a very soft skin. The only trouble with snake women is they copulate with horses, which makes them strange to me. She say's she doesn't. That's why I call her "Doesn't Like Horses". But, of course, she's lying."
Nominated by Russ


Oscar Jaffe

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Played by John Barrymore
Twentieth Century (Howard Hawks, 1934)
Memorable quote – "I never thought I should sink so low as to become an actor."
Nominated by Maxime


Peachy Carnehan

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Played by Michael Cain
The Man Who Would Be King (John Huston, 1975)
Memorable quote –
Billy Fish: "He wants to know if you are gods."
Peachy Carnehan: "Not gods - Englishmen. The next best thing."
Nominated by Dirt


Pee-wee Herman

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"I know you are, but what amI?"

Played by Paul Reubens
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985)
Memorable quote –
Biker #1: "Did anybody tell you that this is the private club of the Satan's Helpers?"
Pee-wee: "Nobody hipped me to that, dude."
Nominated by Dirt, Karim


Petra von Kant

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Played by Margit Carstensen
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
Memorable quote – "It's easy to pity, Sidonie, but so much harder to understand. If you understand someone, don't pity them, change them. Only pity what you can’t understand."
Nominated by Aaron


Phil

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Played by Bill Murray
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993)
Memorable quote –
Phil: "What would you do if you were stuck in one place and every day was exactly the same, and nothing that you did mattered?"
Ralph: "That about sums it up for me."
Nominated by Conty


Poppy

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Played by Sally Hawkins
Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008)
Memorable quote –
Poppy: [pulls out book from shelf] "The Road to Reality... "
[smiles and pushes the book back]
Poppy: "Don't wanna be going there! "
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Quasimodo

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Played by Charles Laughton
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle, 1939)
Memorable quote – [to one of the stone gargoyles] "Why was I not made of stone - like thee?"
Nominated by Dirt
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Peachey! Great choice, Dirt. I'm about to teach that story for the umpteenth time. Never gets old.

Edit: If there's one movie that needs a Criterion release, it's The Man Who Would Be King. Get on that, Aaron.

Conty, that's cool about you meeting Parminder.
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I'll tell my super secret contact, but it won't do any good. They release what they want to release. My contact didn't even know Apu was coming in November, but I did.
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