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April 15, 2004
Movie Characters
Premiere Magazine has come out with their list of the 100 greatest movie characters of all time. The ones with the asterisk at the end are the ones that I have actually seen.
The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time
1. Vito Corleone of The Godfather
2. Fred C. Dobbs of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
3. Scarlett O'Hara of Gone With the Wind*
4. Norman Bates of Psycho*
5. James Bond of Dr. No*
6. Annie Hall of Annie Hall
7. Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark*
8. Ellen Ripley of Alien
9. Jeff Spicoli of Fast Times at Ridgemont High*
10. Gollum of Lord of the Rings*
11. Margo Channing of All About Eve*
12. Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane
13. Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird*
14. Randle McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
15. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs*
16. Robin Hood of The Adventures of Robin Hood
17. Dorothy Gale of The Wizard of Oz*
18. Carl Spackler of Caddyshack*
19. Rick Blaine of Casablanca
20. Virgil Tibbs of In the Heat of the Night
21. Susan Vance of Bringing up Baby
22. Travis Bickle of Taxi Driver
23. Eathan Edwards of The Searchers
24. The Little Tramp of Mabel's Strange Predicament
25. Gordon Gekko of Wall Street
26. E.T. of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial*
27. Marge Gunderson of Fargo
28. Captain Quint of Jaws*
29. Daphne/Jerry of Some Like it Hot
30. King Kong of King Kong
31. Norma Desmond of Sunset Boulevard
32. Holly Golightly of Breakfast at Tiffany's*
33. Ratso Rizzo of Midnight Cowboy
34. Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde
35. Dr. Evil of Austin Powers*
36. Alex Forrest of Fatal Attraction*
37. Jake Gittes of Chinatown
38. Willy Wonka of Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory*
39. Michael Dorsey/Dorthy Michaels of Tootsie*
40. The Terminator of The Terminator*
41. Jane Craig of Broadcast News
42. "Dirty" Harry Callahan of Dirty Harry
43. Forrest Gump of Forrest Gump*
44. Jules Winnfield of Pulp Fiction*
45. Mary Poppins of Mary Poppins*
46. John McClane of Die Hard*
47. Mrs. Robinson of The Graduate*
48. John "Bluto" Blutarsky of Animal House
49. Chance the Gardener of Being There*
50. Blondie of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly*
51. Freddy Krueger of A Nightmare on Elm Street*
52. Howard Beale of Network
53. Ninotchka of Ninotchka
54. Frank Booth of Blue Velvet
55. The Dude of The Big Lebowski
56. Alan Swann of My Favorite Year
57. Tom Powers of The Public Enemy
58. Phyliss Dietrichson of Double Indemnity
59. Lt. Kilgore of Apocalypse Now
60. George Bailey of It's a Wonderful Life*
61. J.J. Hunsecker of Sweet Smell of Success
62. John Shaft of Shaft
63. Carrie White of Carrie*
64. Rocky Balboa of Rocky*
65. Edward Scissorhands of Edward Scissorhands*
66. Navin Johnson of The Jerk*
67. Inspector Clouseau of The Pink Panther
68. Alex DeLarge of A Clockwork Orange
69. Terry Malloy of On the Waterfront
70. Judy Benjamin of Private Benjamin*
71. Rev. Harry Powell of The Night of the Hunter
72. Lloyd Dobler of Say Anything*
73. Norma Rae of Norma Rae
74. Tony Montana of Scarface
75. Dr. Strangelove of Dr. Strangelove
76. Tony Manero of Saturday Night Fever*
77. Annie Wilkes of Misery*
78. "Mad" Max Rockatansky of Mad Max
79. Hans Beckert of M
80. Sam Spade of The Maltese Falcon
81. Aurora Greenway of Terms of Endearment
82. Jack Torrance of The Shining*
83. William Cutting of Gangs of New York
84. Darth Vader of Star Wars*
85. Stanley Kowalski of A Streetcar Named Desire*
86. Melanie Daniels of The Birds*
87. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl*
88. Raymond Babbitt of Rain Man*
89. Sandy Olsson of Grease*
90. John Malkovich of Being John Malkovich
91. Mrs. Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate
92. Dil of The Crying Game
93. Harry Lime of The Third Man
94. Rose Sayer of The African Queen*
95. Oda Mae Brown of Ghost*
96. Tommy DeVito of GoodFellas
97. Ace Ventura of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective*
98. Antoine Doinel of The 400 Blows
99. Kevin McCallister of Home Alone*
100. Roger "Verbal" Kint of The Usual Suspects
Posted by tami at April 15, 2004 8:31 AM
Comments
What a great list. Just reading some of those names and titles gave me shivers. I always thought Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka was good...Just bordering on dark.
I've read Misery, but have yet to see the movie. Right now I'm reading Delores Claiborn and can't wait to rent the movie when I'm finished. It's an intense and funny book.
Posted by: gw at April 18, 2004 11:24 PM
Drat, HTML is not working again. Just *pretend* those book and movie titles are italicized, LOL!
Posted by: gw at April 18, 2004 11:24 PM
That book was wonderful!
Posted by: Tami at April 19, 2004 10:43 AM