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Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,514 Views)
Dirt
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After all.....
Karim Amir,Aug 18 2015
09:32 PM
I'm about to teach that story for the umpteenth time. Never gets old.

I wish I could attend the class.
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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.

We're connected six degrees of separation-style in real life then. One of my friends recently worked as the BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM director's PA before moving off to do her own thing. Small world.

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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).

:fresh: It's good fun reading this. I'm very surprised at just how many films I haven't heard of though!
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Queequeg

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Played by Friedrich von Ledebur
Moby Dick (John Huston, 1956)
Memorable scenes – Anytime they showed a close-up of Queequeg.
Nominated by Dirt


Qiu Ju

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Played by Gong Li
The Story of Qiu Ju (Zhang Yimou, 1992)
Memorable quote –
Lawyer Wu: " Qiu Ju, in civil and administrative lawsuits, the defendants aren't necessarily bad people."
Qiu Ju: " Do good people sue each other?"
Lawyer Wu: " Of course!"
Nominated by Yancy


Reed Rothchild

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Played by John C. Reilly
Boogie Nights (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Memorable quote – "Want to hear a poem I wrote? "I love you, you love me. Going down the sugar tree. We'll go down the sugar tree, and see lots of bees: playing, playing. But the bees won't sting, because you love me." That's it."
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy


Ripley

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Played by Sigourney Weaver
Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979) (plus sequels)
Memorable quote – "Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, third officer reporting. The other members of the crew, Kane, Lambert, Parker, Brett, Ash and Captain Dallas, are dead. Cargo and ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about six weeks. With a little luck, the network will pick me up. This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off."
Nominated by Conty


Robert Cole

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Played by Albert Brooks
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)
Memorable quote –
Robert Cole: on the phone with Jay "Jay, listen -- I didn't tell you this before, and I think I should tell you now. I love you. I mean, in the right way. I think you're an amazing guy, and I -- I think I just love you."
Jay: "The ’ludes kicked in, right?"
Nominated by Yancy


Roy Batty

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Played by Rutger Hauer
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Memorable quote – "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die."
Nominated by Dirt


Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai

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Played by Toshirô Mifune
Yojimbo, Sanjuro (Akira Kurosawa, 1961, 1962)
Memorable quote – [standing in a street that is littered with corpses] "Now we'll have some peace and quiet in this town."
Nominated by Aaron, Mr. Jiggy


Sherlock Holmes

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Played by Basil Rathborne
Hound of the Baskervilles (Sidney Lanfield, 1939) (plus many other Holmes films)
Memorable quote –
Sherlock Holmes: "Murder, my dear Watson. Refined, cold-blooded murder."
Dr. Watson: "Murder?"
Sherlock Holmes: "There's no doubt of it in my mind. Or perhaps I should say, my imagination. For that's where crimes are conceived and they're solved - in the imagination."
Nominated by Dirt


Shinji Ikari

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Played by Megumi Ogata
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki,1997) (plus other Evangelion films)
Memorable quote – "I'm so fucked up."
Nominated by Kid C


Simon Grim

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Played by James Urbaniak
Henry Fool (Hal Hartley, 1997)
Memorable quote –
Henry Fool: "We gotta talk. What the hell were you trying to do when you wrote this thing?"
Simon: "Nothing."
Henry Fool: "Well, you know, you wrote it in a kind of iambic pentameter."
Simon: "Iambic what?"
Henry Fool: "Verse. Look. In my opinion, this is pretty powerful stuff. Though your spelling is Neanderthal and your reasoning a little naive, your instincts are profound. But the whole thing needs to be given a more cohesive shape. It can be expanded, followed through, unified. Do you see what I'm getting at? Are you willing to commit yourself to this? To really work on it? To give it its due in the face of adversity and discouragement? To rise to the challenge you yourself have set? And don't give me that wonderstruck "I'm only a humble garbage man" bullshit, either."
Simon: "It hurts to breathe."
Henry Fool: "Of course it does."
Nominated by Karim
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Russ,Aug 19 2015
06:12 PM
Robert Cole

Played by Albert Brooks
Modern Romance (Albert Brooks, 1981)
Memorable quote –
Robert Cole: on the phone with Jay "Jay, listen -- I didn't tell you this before, and I think I should tell you now. I love you. I mean, in the right way. I think you're an amazing guy, and I -- I think I just love you."
Jay: "The ’ludes kicked in, right?"
Nominated by Yancy


Of course I always pretend that I'm the Jay he's talking to.
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Sitterson and Hadley

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Played by Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford
The Cabin in The Woods (Drew Goddard, 2012)
Memorable quote –
Hadley: [sighs] "These fucking zombies. Remember when you could just throw a girl in a volcano?"
Sitterson: "How old do you think I am?"
Nominated by Kid C


Stalker

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Played by Aleksandr Kaydanovskly
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979)
Memorable scenes – Everything.
Nominated by Kid C


Stephen Blume

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Played by George Segal
Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky, 1973)
Memorable quote – "And I don’t want to die, so I have to get her back."
Nominated by Maxime


Tracy Flick

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Played by Reese Witherspoon
Election (Alexander Payne, 1999)
Memorable quote – "Now that I have more life experience, I feel sorry for Mr. McAllister. I mean, anyone who's stuck in the same little room, wearing the same stupid clothes, saying the exact same things year after year for his whole life, while his students go on to good colleges, move to big cities and do great things and make loads of money... He's got to be at least a little jealous. It's like my mom says, the weak are always trying to sabatoge the strong."
Nominated by Guy


Sylvia Scarlett

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Played by Katherine Hepburn
Sylvia Scarlett (George Cukor, 1935)
Memorable quote – "Well, we're all fools sometimes. Only you choose such awkward times."
Nominated by Maxime


A Tramp

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Played by Charlie Chaplin
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931) (plus numerous other shorts and features)
Memorable scenes – Charlie becomes enamored of a blind girl peddling flowers.
Nominated by Yancy, Aaron


Travis Bickle

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"You talkin’ to me?"

Played by Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Memorable quote – "Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."
Nominated by Conty


Travis Henderson

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Played by Harry Dean Stanton
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984)
Memorable quote –
Walt: "I thought you were afraid of heights."
Travis: "I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of fallin'."
Nominated by Aaron


Umberto Domenico Ferrari

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Played by Carlo Battisti
Umberto D (Vittorio De Sica, 1952)
Memorable scene – Umberto realizes that some things are worth living for.
Nominated by Conty, Aaron


Uncle Charlie

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Played by Joseph Cotton
Shadow of a Doubt (Alfred Hitchcock, 1943)
Memorable quote – "What's the use of looking backward? What's the use of looking ahead? Today's the thing - that's my philosophy. Today."
Nominated by Mr. Jiggy
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Travis Bickle was one of those ones that felt…obvious? Almost boring? But in the end, I couldn't discount him simply because he's SO well known…he's that for a reason. An all time great character.
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Karim Amir
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Thanks for quoting the "I'm a humble garbage man" bit from Henry Fool. I noticed that Maxime recently watched it and rated it PRO. :)

On a somewhat related note, I named my now-departed tuxedo cat Simon after Simon Baker--The Guardian was my favorite television show at the time[/i]--but also in honor of two of my favorite Simons in film, Simon (Greg Kinnear) in As Good As It Gets and Simon Grim in Henry Fool.
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I'll finish this up tomorrow night and then let everyone catch up with the new yearly consensus poll, while we catch our collective breath and get ready for the hard part - the ranking.

You know, thinking of Elaine recently had me wondering what kind of list she would have submitted. Somewhere, there's a Rhoda Penmark waiting her turn. I bet Elaine would have had fun with this.
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I thought that she might have voted for Novalyne Price since I know that she loved The Whole Wide World as much as I did.

Thanks again, for putting this together, Russ. You are awesome. :fresh:
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Swingin' on the Flippity-Flop
or Lora Mae Hollingsway
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Mister Jiggy, Esq.,Aug 20 2015
08:58 AM
or Lora Mae Hollingsway

Lora Mae was one of my very last cuts. I should've kept her as a tribute to Elaine.
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Valentine

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Played by Irčne Jacob
Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994)
Memorable quote – "I feel something important is happening around me. And it scares me."
Nominated by Aaron


Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker

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Played by Johnny Depp
Cry-Baby (John Waters, 1990)
Memorable quote –
Cry-Baby: "Kiss me! Kiss me hard."
Allison: "I've never given a French kiss before."
Cry-Baby: "Watch, it's easy. You just open your mouth, and I open mine, and we wiggle our tongues together. And it feels real sexy."
Allison: "I won't get mononucleosis, will I? "
Nominated by Kid C


Walter

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Played by Richard Jenkins
The Visitor (Thomas McCarthy, 2007)
Memorable quote – "You can't just take people away like that. Do you hear me? He was a good man, a good person. It's not fair! We are not just helpless children! He had a life! Do you hear me? I mean, do YOU hear ME? What's the matter with you?"
Nominated by Karim


Walter Burns

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Played by Cary Grant
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940)
Memorable quote –
Fred, the Mayor: "Whistling in the dark. Well that isn't going to help you this time. You're through."
Walter Burns: "Listen the last man that said that to me was Archie Leach just a week before he cut his throat."
Nominated by Guy


Whip Whitaker

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Played by Denzel Washington
Flight (Robert Zemeckis, 2012)
Memorable quote – [to hearing committee] "I'm drunk right now, because I'm an alcoholic."
Nominated by Karim


Yancy Skibo

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Played by Mickey Rooney
Operation Mad Ball (Richard Quine, 1957
Memorable scene – Yancy frantically tries to organize things (not unlike this forum).
Nominated by Yancy


Youth

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Played by Daniel Breaker
Passing Strange (Spike Lee, 2009)
Memorable quote - "Life is a mistake that only art can correct."
Nominated by Karim


Yukie Yagihara

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Played by Setsuko Hara
No Regrets for Our Youth (Akira Kurosawa, 1946)
Memorable scenes – Hara’s “initial flightiness and evolving political consciousness.”
Nominated by Yancy


Zatoichi

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Played by Shintarô Katsu
“All the Zatoichi movies” (various directors, 1960s-1980’s)
Memorable quote – " I don't know who sent you, but you only get one life. You should guard it more carefully."
Nominated by Aaron
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Youth
Played by Daniel Breaker
Passing Strange (Spike Lee, 2009)
Memorable scenes – They all feature terrific music.


And here's a quote that I love: "Life is a mistake that only art can correct."

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I know he won't get a lot of support but I will stand firm, on my final list, with my support of Friedrich von Ledebur as Queequeg. Skip a literal conversion of book to film and his character just pulls the whole cinematic story together.

And as Ishmael would say:

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

One of my lack-of-addition regrets...

Linda Hunt as Billy Kwan in The Year Of Living Dangerously ... l love this movie, on many different levels, but Billy Kwan spoke volumes.

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And no Withnail.

But don't worry about him. He's already sloshed at the pub.
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